Built in 1901 as a schoolmaster's residence beside a former Victorian school, the 1901 Arts Club is an intimate salon-style recital venue on Exton Street in Waterloo, a short walk from the station and the South Bank. The restored period house has been turned into a candle-lit chamber music room that seats only a few dozen guests, offering a deliberately small and personal alternative to London's larger concert halls. The performance space is built around its acoustics and atmosphere. A Steinway.....

Occupying the former home of the long-running Club 414 at 414-416 Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, south London, the venue that launched as The Ton of Brix in December 2022 brought a new club operation to a site steeped in the area's underground dance history. A collaboration linked to the promoters behind Brixton Jamm, it took over a two-floor building only a few steps from Brixton station and held an unusual 24-hour drinking licence. The basement and ground floor were fitted with a Funktion-One s.....

A music bar and events space a few steps from Waterloo station, Alaska Waterloo occupies a unit on Alaska Street in the railway-arch district behind the South Bank. The room is built for hire and performance, with a compact stage, professional sound system, projector and colour-changing LED lighting, plus a fully stocked bar. The venue holds up to around 150 people standing, 90 seated theatre-style or 50 in a cabaret layout, making it suited to small and mid-sized events. It is used for parties.....

Inside a Grade II listed former church near London Bridge, Amazing Grace is a live-music bar and restaurant set within St Thomas Church, originally established on the St Thomas Street site as far back as the twelfth century. The venue sits between The Shard, Borough Market and London Bridge station, in one of the busiest parts of the South Bank. The downstairs space combines a main bar, a stage, a dance floor and 3D projection-mapped visuals, with a mezzanine level above offering a private bar .....

Opened on 15 October 1930 as the New Victoria, this West End theatre on Wilton Road began life as a lavish super cinema during the great age of the picture palace. It was designed by Ernest Wamsley Lewis and W. E. Trent for Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, with an Art Deco interior themed around an undersea world of shell-shaped lights and wave-like plasterwork. The building occupies an awkward triangular site between Wilton Road and Vauxhall Bridge Road, which gave it two almost identical fr.....

The only major surviving part of the old Palace of Whitehall, the Banqueting House stands on Whitehall in central London, a refined classical building among the government offices of the surrounding street. It was the grandest room of what was once the largest palace in Europe. It was designed by the architect Inigo Jones and completed in 1622 for King James I. Jones had studied in Italy, and the building introduced the disciplined Palladian classicism of the Renaissance to England, in marked c.....

Two hundred acres of riverside green space reclaimed from marshland on the south bank of the Thames, this Victorian park opened to the public in 1858 after a decade of earth-moving and planting directed by designer James Pennethorne. The site had previously been the Battersea Fields, a swampy common associated with duelling, market gardening, and the Red House tavern, whose rowdy reputation eventually prompted Parliament to authorise its transformation into a public park. A boating lake, subtro.....

A Grade II-listed former coal-fired power station on the south bank of the Thames, Battersea Power Station reopened in 2022 as a shopping, dining and leisure destination in the Nine Elms district of London. The brick building was raised in two phases from the 1930s, its four white chimneys becoming one of the most recognisable shapes on the city's skyline before the plant was decommissioned in 1983. It stood derelict for decades, familiar from film and album artwork, until a major regeneration.....

On Queen's Walk on the South Bank of the Thames, between Westminster and Waterloo bridges and beside the London Eye, Between the Bridges is an open-air riverside venue that combines a beer garden, street food, and a busy events programme. Sitting next to Jubilee Gardens and within sight of the Southbank Centre, the BFI, and the London Eye, it trades heavily on one of the best skyline outlooks in central London. The site is laid out as a flexible mix of open-air and covered, heated areas, with s.....

Officially renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this 96-metre clock tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster has anchored the London skyline and served as a global symbol of British parliamentary democracy since its completion in 1859. The name Big Ben strictly refers only to the largest of the five bells inside, though popular usage has long applied it to the entire structure. Architect Augustus Pugin designed the tower's Gothic Revival .....