This solitary Georgian survival in Vauxhall was briefly the home of the Duke of Brunswick, a German prince in exile who was killed in 1815 fighting the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte.
In Brixton, up until 2009, the old Granville Arcade was just another of London's many retail spaces in abandoned disrepair, until Spacemakers were called in to regenerate the space. Read more.
Decent pubs in Clapham are few and far between. This is one of the best. Mind the moose head.
For centuries the riverside district was dominated by industrial plants, but bombings in World War II ruined the area. The Festival of Britain transformed South Bank a cultural hub in 1951
