London's Lost Rivers From Above: The Westbourne

11/20/09                       Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. Along with the Tyburn and Fleet, the River Westbourne is one of the 'big three' lost watercourses north of the Thames, now buried and used as a sewer. It shares a similar point of origin to its siblings, rising in Whitestone Pond on Hampstead Heath. From there, it flows down through ...

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Madness, she wrote

04/19/10 The gloriously unhinged heroines of classic fiction have long been objects of fascination: the snarling Bertha Rochester stashed in the attic in Jane Eyre , Anne Catherick, skulking on Hampstead Heath on the loose from an asylum in The Woman in White and the ever-delusional shopaholic, Madame Bovary.

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Love Your Lido: Hampstead Men's Pond

07/10/10           We're giving London's Lidos some love this summer. This week, Hampstead Men's Pond, and yes, we know it's not technically a Lido. Every proper city has a place for the boys to hang our in the summer months; New York has Pier 54, Chicago has Hollywood Beach, Paris has Pere Lachaise Cemetery (how noir...) and London? London bests them all with the Men's Pond at Hampstead Heath. On the ...

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