Liberty London Christmas in 2025: The Good Ship Liberty hanging in the atrium, the elf workshop windows, the galleries, and how to visit.

Burlington Arcade Christmas in 2025: the Twelve Days decorations under the glass roof, the beadles at the gate, and the shop windows worth a look.

A lunchtime look down from the gallery of The Counting House, the Cornhill pub under the glass dome of a Victorian banking hall.

A summer Sunday walk through the glasshouses, garden and shop at Petersham Nurseries, with the story of the Boglione family and Skye Gyngell's Michelin star.

My photos of London staircases, from palace and hotel grand stairs to Georgian mahogany, iron spirals and Art Deco foyers, with how to see each one.

A winter walk through the Temple's cobbled lanes and Fountain Court ends inside 2 Temple Place, William Waldorf Astor's carved and gilded estate office on the Embankment.

Giant trainers, a winged Dark Angel, a sweet shop dressed as London and a boxer's blue plaque. A walk up Camden High Street from the station to Camden Lock, and why the shops look like this.

The Neasden Temple was carved from 26,300 pieces of stone in India and assembled in north-west London. What to look for, the rules for visitors, and how to get there.

Somerset House went from a Tudor palace to government offices to an arts centre. Its history, and how the building pays its way in the 2020s.

A 45-minute Sunday walk from the Sun in Splendour to Westbourne Park Road, with the history behind Notting Hill's painted stucco terraces.

Dark wool and horsehair climb the front of 16 Hanover Square and fill the rooms inside. Why Nicola Turner built it this way: a chemistry college, a couture house and a hidden poem.

A Sunday morning at Broadway Tower on Fish Hill, where a Georgian folly holds stories of printers, Pre-Raphaelites, a wartime crash and a nuclear bunker.

A walk through Maison Assouline, the luxury publisher's bookshop and cocktail bar inside a small bank that Edwin Lutyens designed next to Wren's St James's Church.

Rooftops, towers and a cathedral dome I've photographed across London, with which views are free, which need a ticket and which open only for Open House.

A walk through the Courtauld Gallery's Great Room, spiral staircase and Blavatnik Fine Rooms, with the history of Samuel Courtauld and the Royal Academy at Somerset House.

A morning in Painswick: the Rococo Garden in October, the yews and lychgate at St Mary's, and the stone-cottage doors dressed for Halloween.

Autumn in Chelsea and Kensington happens on the shopfronts before it happens in the parks: pumpkin wreaths, dried-flower doorways, a pub buried in orange flowers and a street that turns scarlet.

A painted ceiling, a rainbow arch, a library under the beams and the old clock winding room, in a private flat at the top of St Pancras.

Eight-metre palms, brass chandeliers and Gothic windows in St Pancras station's old Victorian ticket hall.

A tiny, crammed museum outside the gate of a working Victorian prison: nooses, a blue cell door, Oscar Wilde, Ronnie Biggs and the last gallows in Britain. What's inside and how to get in.