A
Acton Park 56
Admiralty Arch 67
Admiralty Citadel 68
Adventure Bar 107–8
Alice House 49
All Hallow’s 13
All Star Lanes 108
Amazing Grates 30
Ambresbury Banks 12
Anchor Brewery 69
Andina 17
Antrim Gardens 57
Aqua Shard 16
The Artesian 99
Arty Globe 26
The Attendant 72–3
Autumnal Equinox 138
B
Bagel King 122
ballet 35
balloons 131
Bank of England 116
Bank station 116
Bankside 68–9
Banqueting House 68
bantam, phantom 124
The Bar 99
Bar Italia 118
Bar Polski 101–2
Barbican 12
Barking 20
Barnet 18
Bassoon Bar 99
Bear Gardens 69
Beigel Bake 120
Belfast, HMS 37
bikes 111
Billingsgate Fish Market 129
birdsong 131
black dog (ghost) 124
The Blackfriar 83–4
Blackheath Tea Hut 122
Blenheim Forge 33
The Blind Beggar 85
boats 111
Bold Tendencies 62–3
Borough Market 69
Boston Manor House 60
Bourne & Hollingsworth 100–1
Boxpark 28
Bracken House 115
breakfast 14–17
Breakfast Club 15
Brent, River 23
The Bridge 74
British Museum 40
Brixton Market 47
Bubbleology 75
Buckingham Palace 42
Burgess Park 54
buses
ghost bus 124
late night 111
Bushy Park 56
C
Cabbie’s shelter 73
cabs 111
Café in the Crypt 46
cafés see restaurants and cafés
Caffè Nero 76
Callooh Callay 102
Camino 15–16
Cardinal Cap Alley 69
Carlton House Terrace 67
Carter Lane 114–15
Casita 103
Catford Constitutional Club 85–6
Central Park 55
Ceremony of the Keys 104
Chancery Lane tube station 114
Change Alley 116
Changing of the Guard 42
La Chapelle 96–7
Charles I, King 134
Charlotte Street 100–1
Cheapside 116
Chislehurst Caves 21
Chiswick 22
Christ Church Greyfriars 51
Christmas Pudding Race 140
cinema 90–1
Cities at Dawn 131
Cittie of Yorke 84
City of London Distillery 32
clubs 105–9
The Cocktail Trading Co. 99
cocktails 98–104
coffee 71–6
comedy 91
Conway Hall 70
Copperfield’s Books 27
Costa 76
Covent Garden Market 140
Crussh 76
Crystal Palace Park 53
Cutty Sark 43
Cybercandy 25–6
D
Dalston 120–1
Dalston Superstore 108
Dans le Noir? 95
Daquise 97
Darwin Centre 35
dawn chorus 131
de Gaulle, Charles 67
Dennis Severs’ House 63
dinner 94–7
Dirty Martini 105
Discount Suit Company 103
Dishoom 95–6
The Dolphin 70
Donovan Bar 100
Dosa n Chutny 96
The Dove 86
Down House 21–2
Dragonfly Brewery 86–7
Druid Order 138
Duke of York’s Column 67
Dyers Company 137
E
Effra, River 10
Egerton House Hotel 104
Electric Diner 49
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 67–8
English Civil War Society 134
Epping Forest 12
Equinoxes 138
events pubs 82
F
Fabric 105
films 90–1
Fleet, River 10
Floors for Thought 30
food see restaurants and cafés
Forty Hall 18
Foundling Museum 59
Frame Set & Match 30
Freud Museum 64–5
fringe theatre 89–90
Frockney Rebel 30
The Fumoir 100
G
Gagosian Gallery 60
Gallery Café 48
Gallipoli 47
Gastropubs 81
Geffrye Museum 64
The George Inn 85
Get Stuffed 30
ghost stations 126
ghost trains 131
ghosts 123–6
Giddy Up 75
Giro 67
Gloucester Road Tube Station 61
Gold, A. 26
Golden Grill 122
Goldsmith’s Hall 135
Gracechurch Street 13
Gran Sasso 73
Grand Union Canal 23–4
Grange Hotel 12
Granger and Co. 17
Great Christmas Pudding Race 140
Great Northern Hotel 10
Green Lanes 121–2
Green Park 50
Green Park tube 12
Greenwich 43
Greenwich Park 52
Gresham College 87
Griffin Brewery 34–5
Guildhall Art Gallery 13
H
Habanera 17
Half Cup 72
Hamilton Hall 15
Hampton Court Palace 41–3
Hanwell 23
Happiness Forgets 102
Harrington, Peter 27
Harwood Arms 97
Heaven 107
Hill & Szrok 97
Hippodrome Casino 119
Holborn 69–70
Holborn Viaduct 114
The Holly Bush 87
Horniman Museum 62
Horse Guards 68
Horsenden Hill 10–12
hot cross buns 136
Houses of Parliament 32–3
Howard Griffin Gallery 64
Hoxton Hotel 74
Hunterian Museum 58–9
Hutong 103
Hyde Park 50–1
I
Inamo 95
International Magical Shop 28
Iron Age 12
J
Jam Tree 108–9
Japanika 48
Jewish Museum 65
K
Kensington Gardens 50–1
King’s Cross station 9–10
Kingston 23
Knolleys Rose Rent 137
L
Lambeth Bridge 77
Lamb’s Conduit Street 70
Láng 74
Leadenhall Market 13
The Legal Café 73
Leighton House Museum 61
Lido Café 16
Locals (pubs) 81
Lombard Street 116
The London Gin Club 100
London Glassblowing 33
London School of Economics 93
London Silver Vaults 25
London Symphony Orchestra 48
London Wall 12–13
London’s Most Haunted 123
Lord Mayor 137
Lord Mayor’s Show 139
The Lost Lectures 91–3
Loughton Camp 12
The Love Shake 120
lunch 44–9
M
MADE Bar and Kitchen 47
makeover pubs 82
Mansion House 116
Manze, M. 47
Maritime Greenwich 43
markets 127–9
Marx, Karl 98
The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town 102
Miglia Quadrato 136
minicabs 111
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising 60
Museum of London Docklands 38
N
National Gallery 37
National Police Memorial 68
National Portrait Gallery 38
Natural History Museum 40–1
New Covent Garden Market 129
New Evaristo Club 105–7
New London Architecture 59–60
New Turnstile 70
nightclubs 105–9
Nightjar 102
Nincomsoup 46
Nine Elms 10
NOLA 103
Northala Hills 24
Notting Hill Carnival 138
O
Old Compton Street 118–19
Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret 61
Old Royal Naval College 43
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese 84
One New Change 115
opera 35
Oranges and Lemons Service 135
Oxfam 27
Oxleas Wood 53
P
Paperback Coffee & Tea 75
parks 50–7
Parliamentary trains 131
Peg + Patriot 103
pelicans 65
Pellicci, E 17
Persepolis 26
phantom bantam 124
phantom squirrel 125
Philglas & Swiggot 30
photography 131
The Pineapple 87
Planet of the Grapes 30
Polo Bar 121
Poppies Fish and Chips 95
Postman’s Park 51–2
prehistoric London 9–12
Pret 76
Princess Louise 84
Proud Camden 107
Punchdrunk 90
puns, shop names 30–1
Pure Evil Gallery 64
Q
Q-Whitehall 68
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 55
Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge 19
Queen Square 70
Queen’s Golden Jubilee Footbridges 79
Quit Rents 139
R
R. Soles 30
Rainham Marshes 20
Ranoush 121
The Red Bar 100–1
Red Lion Square 70
Regency Café 15
Regent Square 52
Regent’s Park 56
restaurants and cafés
breakfast 14–17
coffee 71–6
dinner 94–7
gastropubs 81
late-night 118–22
lunch 44–9
The Reverend JW Simpson 100–1
Richmond 22–3
Richmond Park 55
rivers 9–10
Roller Disco 108
Rolling Bridge 49
Royal Courts of Justice 33, 139
Royal Exchange 116
Royal Institution 93
Royal Observatory Greenwich 43, 92
Royal Opera House 35
Royal Parks 50–1
Royal Society 67
S
St Bride’s 13
St Clement Danes 135
St Dunstan-in-the-East 51–2
St Luke’s, Old Street 48
St Martin-in-the-Fields 46
St Mary-le-Bow 115
St Michael Cornhill 116
St Paul’s Cathedral 12, 69, 114, 115
St Peter’s Alley 116
Scandinavian Kitchen 46
Secret Cinema 90–1
Severndroog Castle 53
Shochu Lounge 100–1
shopping 25–31
Shoreditch 102
Sir John Soane’s Museum 58
Skoob Books 27
Skylon 96
Smithfield Market 127–9
Sömine 120
Southwark Bridge 80
Spex in The City 31
Spring Equinox 138
squirrel, phantom 125
The Star of Kings 107
Starbucks 76
Stave Hill 54
sunrise 130–1
Surrey Docks Company Farm 61–2
Sutton House 63–4
Swan Upping 137
swimming 24
T
Tate Britain 40
Tate Modern 38
taxis 111
Thinking Bob 93
Tottenham Court Road 98
Tower Hill 138
Tower Hill station 12
The Toy Shop 109
treasure hunt 136
trees, haunted 123–4
Trial of the Pyx 135
tube
ghost stations 126
ghost trains 131
Turn Em Clean 31
Twickenham 22
Tyburn 10
U
University College London 57
Upminster Windmill 20
Uxbridge 23
V
Valence House Museum 20
The Vaults 90
Vauxhall 10
Vauxhall Bridge 77
Victoria and Albert Museum 40, 41
Victoria Park 54–5
Vintners Company 137
Voodoo Ray’s 120
W
Walbrook 10
Wardrobe Place 115
Watling Street 115
The Well and Bucket 84–5
West End 88–9
Westminster 67–8
Westminster Bridge 78
White Cliffs of London 22
Whitechapel Bell Foundry 33–4
Whitecross Street Food Market 46
Whitewebb’s Museum of Transport 19
Widow’s Buns 136
William Morris Gallery 65
Wimbledon Common 53–4
Worship Street Whistling Shop 103
Y
Yas 121
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese 84
Yumchaa 73
Z
Zabludowicz Collection 65