LondonLife – Passing parade…

Outside Buckingham Palace. PICTURE: Shawn/Unsplash

LondonLife – Vauxhall view…

Vauxhall from the River Thames with Westminster Bridge in the foreground. PICTURE: Daniel Sturley/Unsplash

LondonLife – All in white…

PICTURE: Gabriel Tudor

LondonLife – Greenwich overwatch…

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LondonLife – Busy Thames shore…

North bank of the Thames in central London. PICTURE: Marcel Zeidler/Unsplash

LondonLife – Horseguards…

PICTURE: Eduard Pretsi/Unsplash

LondonLife – Glass towers…

PICTURE: João Rodrigues/Unsplash

LondonLife – Geometry under the Shard…

PICTURE: Adrien Olichon/Unsplash

LondonLife – Rayners Lane…

PICTURE: Brett Jordan/Unsplash

LondonLife – Garden view…

View of Jubilee Gardens on South Bank from the London Eye. PICTURE: Leticia Golubov/Unsplash

LondonLife – City of London stairway…

PICTURE: Kevin Grieve/Unsplash

LondonLife – Folgate Street…

Looking down Folgate Street, Spitalfields. PICTURE: Tanya Barrow/Unsplash

LondonLife – Souvenir shopping…

PICTURE: Youssef Mubarak/Unsplash

LondonLife – Streets aglow for Christmas…

Piccadilly. ALL PICTURES: Philippe BONTEMPS/Unsplash
Carnaby Street.
Carnaby Street.
Old Bond Street.
Covent Garden.

LondonLife – Claridges dressed for Christmas…

PICTURE: Tanya Barrow/Unsplash

For more on the historic hotel, see our earlier post here…

LondonLife – Downing Street’s Christmas lights…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer turns on the Christmas tree lights outside 10 Downing Street. PICTURE: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

LondonLife – City of lights…

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LondonLife II – The Lady Mayor’s Show…

The historic Lady Mayor’s Show took place on Saturday through the streets of the City of London. Dame Susan Langley, the 697th Lord Mayor of London, is only the third woman to hold the post in more than 800 years, and is the first ever to be titled the ‘Lady Mayor of London’.

The new Lady Mayor of London, Dame Susan Langley, waves from her carriage at the Lady Mayor’s Show. PICTURE: Ben Turner/UK MOD © Crown copyright 2025.
Participants in the Lady Mayor’s Show. PICTURE: Cpl Danielle Dawson/UK MOD © Crown copyright 2025
A military band in the Lady Mayor’s Show. PICTURE: Cpl Danielle Dawson/UK MOD © Crown copyright 2025
Pikemen guard the Lady Mayor’s carriage outside The Royal Courts of Justice. PICTURE: Ben Turner/UK MOD © Crown copyright 2025

LondonLife – Traffic lights…

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Outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

LondonLife – Look up!…

PICTURE: Maik Winnecke/Unsplash

The magnificent carved fan vaulted roof of the Henry VII Lady Chapel at the eastern end of Westminster Abbey. The chapel, which 16th century historian John Leland called “the wonder of the world”, was consecrated in 1516.