Cutty Sark, preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich on the bank of the River Thames, is the last surviving tea clipper of the great age of sail and one of the most celebrated ships in British maritime history. Built on the Clyde in Scotland and launched in 1869, she was designed for speed, racing to bring the first and most valuable cargoes of tea from China to Britain in an era when the swiftest ships commanded the highest prices. The opening of the Suez Canal in the same year soon allowed steamsh.....

A remarkable marriage of medieval grandeur and twentieth-century glamour, Eltham Palace in southeast London combines the surviving great hall of a royal residence with one of the finest Art Deco interiors in Britain. The site began as a medieval manor that became a favoured royal palace, where kings held court and the young Henry the Eighth spent part of his childhood, and its magnificent great hall, built in the fifteenth century with a splendid hammerbeam roof, ranks among the largest of its k.....

Pouring an ever-changing range of craft and European beers, the Endeavour is an independent, dog-friendly bar on Deptford Broadway in south-east London. A relatively recent arrival to the area, it pairs a stylish ground-floor bar with a basement events space and has quickly built a reputation for well-priced drinks, a relaxed atmosphere and a strong line in grassroots entertainment. Its position on the Broadway places it at one of Deptford's busiest junctions, close to bus routes and a short wal.....

On Lewisham High Street in the heart of Ladywell, the Fox and Firkin is a much-loved south-east London pub and live music venue. Rooted in community and creativity, it combines a traditional pub with a large, festival-style beer garden, an on-site brewery and an eclectic, near-nightly programme of live music. More than a decade of gradual revamping has transformed it from a run-down boozer into one of the borough's best-known cultural spots. Its sprawling outdoor garden is the venue's signature.....

Reborn in a former Argos store on Catford's busy Rushey Green, the Grand Empire reopened in December 2025 as a modern bar, restaurant and events venue in south-east London. The site has a short but eventful recent history, having traded as the Antic-run Catford Constitutional pub from late 2022 until its closure at the start of 2025 before being reinvented under its current name. The reimagined venue brings together several distinct offers under one roof, combining a modern bar and a restaurant.....

Rising from the banks of the Thames to a hilltop observatory, Greenwich Park is the oldest of London's royal parks. From its high ground, a famous view opens over the river, the old naval buildings and the towers of the city beyond. The park was enclosed in the 15th century, on land that had long been a royal estate. It is the oldest of the parks once attached to royal palaces in the capital. On the hilltop stands the old Royal Observatory, founded in the 17th century to help sailors find thei.....

The New Cross Inn is a grassroots live-music venue and pub at 323A New Cross Road in New Cross, south-east London. A long-standing fixture of the area, it has built a strong reputation in the punk, ska, hardcore, and alternative scenes, hosting touring and local bands most nights of the week. The venue combines a traditional pub front bar with a back room stage and standing area, offering an intimate, sweat-and-stickers atmosphere prized by fans of underground guitar music. It runs an almost ni.....

Regarded as one of the finest groups of Baroque buildings in Britain, the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich was designed by Christopher Wren and forms the centrepiece of the riverside ensemble recognised by UNESCO as the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. The buildings were begun at the end of the seventeenth century as the Royal Hospital for Seamen, a charitable home for elderly and injured sailors of the Royal Navy, conceived as a naval counterpart to the soldiers' hospital in Chelsea,.....

Seven floors of a former multi-storey car park on Rye Lane have been turned into Peckham Levels, a cultural and creative hub in the heart of south London. Opened in December 2017 and designed by Carl Turner Architects, the building reuses what had been an underused concrete car park beside Peckham Rye station to create studios, workspaces, food and drink outlets and event spaces from the middle levels up to the rooftop. The site's reinvention built on earlier creative use of the building, where.....

Perched on a hill in Greenwich Park with sweeping views over the river and the city beyond, the Royal Observatory is the historic home of British astronomy and timekeeping and the place from which the world measures longitude and time. It was founded in 1675 by King Charles the Second, who appointed the first Astronomer Royal and charged him with improving navigation and astronomy, above all by mapping the heavens accurately enough to allow sailors to determine their position at sea. The origina.....