Lifestyle & Leisure
How have Londoners spent their free time? What’s a London way of living? Find out in these objects, stories and blogs.
Blogs-And-Stories
How wartime bombsites became adventure playgrounds
Reclaiming the wreckage for play and imagination
The many lives of Sadler’s Wells
This north London dance centre has seen many highs and lows over the past 300 years
Snapshots of noughties London
Remember post-millennium London through the eyes of Paul Baldesare
Backstage at the London Palladium, 1956
A peek behind the curtain of the world-famous West End theatre
Fun at the Hampstead Heath fairs
Photographs of candyfloss and carousels in post-war London
London’s lidos are swimming in history
Packed days at the lido have been a London summer staple for nearly 100 years
Plunge into the past of London’s indoor pools
With Victorian baths and Olympic arenas, Londoners can take a dip in pools built across three centuries
Strolling along Sutton High Street
A charming photographic record of a middle-class London suburb in the 1930s
London’s historic pubs
Highwaymen hangouts, Thameside landmarks – and a local co-owned by Ian McKellen
