Londonshopfronts.com is a quirky little photo blog that documents some interesting shop fronts and signs around London. Most of the shop fronts are quite comical and strangely familiar. Until you see a lot of shop fronts all in one place you don’t realise how different they all are and how odd some shops are!
The idea of the site is simple, to document small traders and their shopfronts before they disappear and get eaten up by all the big chains. Looking at all the pictures makes you realise how unique some …

London is home to some amusingly named shops so I thought I would put together a little list of some of my favourites it seems that fish and chip shops are pretty up on the pun filled business names!
Curl Up and Dye
First up is Curl Up and Dye, a hairdresser on Picardy Street. There’s loads of funny hairdressers in London that cater for pretty much every style and price range.
7 Picardy Street, London DA17 5QQ
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Snog
Snog is a really cool frozen yoghurt shop, which is slap bang in …

This one could be a little short notice for some people but may also plug a vacant weekend gap for some other people so is still well worth posting…..
The London Japanese Art Festival will be taking place in Richmond on the 11th and 12th of July at Richmond Adult Community College and promises to be two days of art and culture in West London.
The festival will feature exhibitions of Japanese-style comic art (or “manga”) by both Japanese and British artists. The festival has been set up as a way to …

What’s not to like about this little gem? The London based Lazy Oaf is every adult child’s fantasy - born from a love of illustration, graphics and cartoons with a bit of east london thrown in the mix. I hounded press lady Jerry for some Londonerseye stylee ‘question time’……….
Hello Lazy Oaf - why the name?
Hiiiiii. The name represents the lo-fi, uncomplicated style of drawing featured in our designs. We also think there’s nothing better than partaking in a good bit of tea drinking, biscuit eating and sitting in front of …

Yes this is rather random, but following a bizarre conversation after a few too many drinks at work, I decided to delve into this strange topic for the benefit of anyone who might happen to be looking for elephants in London…..
Elephant Parade
www.elephantparade.com/london/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/faceme/1347826508/
Roll up roll up! Scheduled for the summer of 2010, this public awareness campaign for the Asian endangered elephant plans on showcasing brightly painted elephants all over London. Each model is the size of an adolescent elephant and will stand 1.5m tall. Guaranteed to put a smile on your …

Pimps & Pin Ups
http://www.pimpsandpinups.com/
Spitalfields - 14 Lamb Street E1 6EA
For something completely out of the ordinary, head over to Spitalfields for some truely glamorous 1950’s rockabilly style pampering. Looking like a cross between back stage at a west end show and a tattoo parlour convention, the well designed warehouse style space looks fantastic and makes what is normally a simple trip to the hairdressers well worth the £40 price tag. With salons in London and New York only, why head to the other side of the continent when you can …

London is home to a lot of strange, rude and amusing street names some of which are too random to seem possible! Some of London’s street names are also pretty blue and graphic as they relate to old streets of ye olde London.
Most of the street names in London are bi-products of their surrounding areas and relate to age old activities in the areas. Such as Spitalfields which, is called this because it was where the old plague hospital fields used to be in Victorian Britain.
A lot of the street …

Over time I have seen some pretty unusual sites and scenes in London. However, some of the best ones I didn’t see first hand have been captured on youtube for everyone to enjoy!
I wish I had seen that guy skiing down the escalator in Angel or the Liverpool Street dance for T-mobile….
luckily enough I have been able to see a few firework displays in London for New Year celebrations, but for some funny reason can’t seem to remember a lot about them…
The snow storm last year was also pretty impressive …