Best Of Londonist: 22-28 April 2024

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Last Updated 26 April 2024

Best Of Londonist: 22-28 April 2024

Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features.

Some London Train Journeys You Might Not Have Done

Putting the fun back into funicular...or something like that.

A tube, train bus hybrid

The 20 Most-Read Londonist Articles Of All Time

To mark our 20th birthday - how many have you read?

A green parakeet landing on someone's hand

London's Hidden Roman Bathhouse Reopens For Tours

A subterranean portion of Londinium.

People looking down on the Roman remains
Image: City of London Corporation

Black Eats Ldn Are Launching Their Summer Season

With a huge weekender south of the river.

People in an outdoor market
Image: Black-Owned Hackney

59 Of The Best Rooftop Bars In London

Suntraps, scenic views and sips.

Best Rooftop Bars London: beautifully patterned clouds from a rooftop bar overlooking central London
Image: Radio Rooftop

Aslef Announces New Train Driver Strikes For May 2024

Three days of strikes, plus further overtime bans, in early May.

Train at a platform at Waterloo East

Unseen Photos Of Tower Bridge's 1894 Opening Week To Go On Display

"We couldn't quite believe that we'd discovered such a piece of history."

A photograph of people lined up on Tower Bridge when it opened

Curry, Nudists And Tesco: A Very Brief History Of The Edgware Road

A road with tales to tell.

An Edgware Road sign

Chislehurst Caves: 22 Miles Of Manmade Tunnels Where Jimi Hendrix Played Twice

London's subterranean town, open to the public.

Caves sign

Covent Garden's Puppet Festival Returns This May

A free event every Londoner should witness at least once.

Children sitting on the grass watching a Punch & Judy show at the Covent Garden Puppet Festival
© Ned Dyke-Coomes

A Northerner On The Tube In The 1970s

Memories of a teen on the tube.

A train guard with pipe sticks his head out the window
Image: Mike Goldwater from this article

Other London Pubs Taylor Swift Might Like To Namecheck

We appear to have built ourselves a Taylor Swift pub crawl around London... and The Black Dog is just the start.

Exterior of The Water Poet

A Brief History Of The DLR

Your handy primer on the Docklands Light Railway.

View from the front seat of the DLR

When The Tower Of London Was Rocked By A Deadly Bomb In 1974

"The Tower is going up".

Tower of London
Image: Neil Howard via creative commons

Mounties, Maple Leaves And Poutine - Canada Day Comes To Trafalgar Square In June

Yes We Canada.

Three mounties in red tunics

We're Launching A Croydon-Centric Newsletter!

Londonist: Croydon Edit arrives in June.

Looking up at two skyscrapers

Review: Beyond The Bassline Tracks Black Music In Britain At 140bpm

From court trumpeters to grime, in a flash.

A man dancing in front of a sound system
Image © Richard Saunders & urbanimage.tv.