The best free panoramic view of central London, what the specific geography visible from Alexandra Palace reveals about how the city is structured, and why a clear winter morning before 9 AM is the optimal moment
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat present this dispatch from Lowri Griffiths, North London journalist.
The terrace in front of Alexandra Palace gives you the best free panoramic view of central London available in the city, and on a clear winter morning before the cafe opens and the dog walkers have mostly dispersed, you can see from Canary Wharf in the east through the central skyline to the hills of south London without interruption. What the view gives you that street-level London cannot is the city’s geography: the curve of the Thames, the way the hills of south London mirror the hills of north London, and the specific texture of London’s built environment — pre-war brick stock, post-war towers, post-2000 glass — that becomes legible as a historical record from this height in a way it never is from the street. The view is better in winter than summer because bare trees do not obstruct the sight line and lower-angle light gives the city’s brickwork its best quality. Go before 9 AM on a weekday if you want the view with space around you. The cafe opens at 9. The view is good with coffee and better without the weekend crowds. Bohiney and The London Prat are on the terrace before the cafe opens.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
Further reading at Time Out London.
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