50 best London websites
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Sonya Barber
Posted: Mon Feb 18 2008
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www.mypropertyspy.co.uk
Get access to property sale prices in London, some dating back to 2000. It’s compulsive reading, and great ammunition when haggling with estate agents who ‘are not at liberty’ to disclose how much your dream house went for when it was gazumped from under your feet.
Check out The detail includes house numbers, taking nosing on your neighbours to new heights.
www.crockattandpowell.blogspot.com
Crockatt and Powell is an independent bookshop behind Waterloo station, and a nicely old-fashioned purveyor of interesting tomes a world away from the likes of Borders. Through its site you can make enquiries about stock but the chatty and passionate blog is the real draw.
Check out The authors are clearly (and expectedly) voracious readers, so keep an eye out for their tips on the next big thing. Currently, it’s Jennie Walker, author of print-on-demand book ‘24 for 3’.
www.streetsensation.co.uk
Take a virtual tour of London’s busiest shopping streets. With photos and links to more than 3,500 shops, restaurants and bars, the idea is that you’ll always know what to expect when you stumble out of the tube station.
Check out Streets are presented as a scrollable set of photos of shop fronts, so you really will be able to find them.
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This is a designer fashion and furniture sales website specifically for London. It offers free weekly update emails and alerts on sales and promotions and lists them all by category.
Check out The sample sales calendar is one to check if you’re thrifty as well as well-dressed.
www.londoncyclesport.com
A huge online resource for anyone looking to take cycling beyond the functional commute to a more competitive level. There are comprehensive guides to gear, upcoming events and race reports.
Check out The forums where London’s two-wheeled demons swap advice (it’s also a great place to buy or sell a high-quality bike).
www.theratandmouse.co.uk
Presented in the form of a blog, this site sifts through the endless (and often conflicting) reports on the state of the London property market and tries to present an expert digest, giving you both useful information and an excellent source of dinner-party gossip.
Check out Search the archive by postcode and find out exactly what’s been muttered about your street.
www.londonrate.com
This is a neat resource for busy Londoners: a growing collection of service-industry contacts, rated and searchable. You’ll find everything from computer experts to cleaners, hairdressers to housekeepers and babysitters to builders.
Check out The clearly laid-out prices. None of that ‘ring for a quote’ malarkey.
www.propertysnake.co.uk
Yet another house-obsessed site, but the twist here is that the prices are laid out in a ‘Top of the Pops’ format, so you can see at a glance who’s up, who’s down, and by how much. The name is a cheeky twist on ‘Property Ladder’, obviously.
Check out The easily digested stat on the homepage that tells you how London house prices have gone down recently, and by how much (possibly bringing more joy to first-time buyers than property owners).
www.dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com
The genius of this idea is its simplicity: the author (a DJ, admittedly) heads to Oxfam in Dalston, buys up a load of music cassettes, and then digitises them so that they can be played online. The result is a resurrection of nostalgic old tapes that might otherwise have been lost. It also features the sleeve art and other charity-shop finds.
Check out Where else online will you find ‘Disco Beach Party 2’, complete with the ‘Birdie Song’ and ‘Una Paloma Blanca’?
www.londonnoisemap.com
As it sounds – a digest of official goverment measurements of volume levels across the capital, presented in colour-coded map form. You can search by postcode and instantly see how much racket there is on your street relative to the rest of the capital.
Check out It goes into so much detail you could even use it to plan a tranquil picnic – the lowest noise areas, not surprisingly, tend to be bang in the middle of parks.
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http://london-tours-attractions-hotels.blogspot.com
I'm adding this to the list for people to have a look at information is compiled by the Friends of The Regent Palace! Thanks
Why Freegive is not in the list? - If you haven't heard yet, there is a wonderful organisation called Freegive ( http://www.freegive.co.uk ). Freegive Group connects people who are giving and getting unwanted items for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse, recycle and keeping good stuff out of landfills. It's completely free to join. This is a great idea! Encouraging people to reuse and recycle things by giving them away and not sending them to the bin or landfills.Freegive group is active in all London boroughs. Find a group near you at
http://www.freegive.co.uk/londonfg.htm
Not in the list, is the London Cultureseekers Group - www.cultureseekers.org, which is biggest history and culture group in London!
Good list. I have a website about London as well. Site language is Turkish thou.. http://www.golondra.com
London Sound Survey has hundreds of recordings of London life, people, places and events.
http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk
"A beautifully crafted labour of love" - Londonist website
Fair enough, Hungamunga also do crafts but they don't necessarily have a London-specific theme. Also, iKnit is a yarn and knitting shop/cafe so it is primarily a business.
Ask Google which is 'London's best website'
Knowledgeoflondon.com
Need I say more?
Unfortunately, it appears the noise map has been taken down.
Yeah who said craft is for the light hearted!!
Sam xx