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The Fleet, the Tyburn, the Lea, the Peck, the Westbourne, the Walbrook and the Effra are probably most well known. Some have intriguing names like the Cock and Pie Ditch, the Ching and the Quaggy, while others are just plain uninviting like Carbuncle Ditch and the Earl’s Sluice, but they’re all still there – somewhere. The Great Stink London has …

Most householders would benefit from more room. Perhaps your family is growing, and you need an extra bedroom for the little one on the way. Maybe your teenager wants to have their own space, or your elderly parent needs looking after now they can’t cope on their own. Perhaps you want a quieter room in which to work from home. …

If you take a look at recent approved planning applications across London, you’ll find that basements are a part of nearly all of them – even when an old building is being demolished, and a new one built in its place, the new one has been designed from scratch to have at least one or more basement levels. This shows …

The traditional cellars and caverns used by professional vineyards and distilleries bear little resemblance to many of the dank holes beneath Victorian British houses. Basement construction in London in bygone days had more to do with distancing the home from the space beneath it than embracing it, but today water-proofing and underpinning technologies put almost limitless extra living space within …