Not all Victorian streets are equally off-putting. Charing Cross Road, for example, was developed around the same time as Shaftesbury Avenue (1870s).

Some over 400 costumed entertainers bring the streets to life, staging scenes inspired by Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and other classic tales, creating a vibrant and festive atmosphere.

British novelist and historian Jensen (The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London) delivers a buoyant account of 19th-century London street life.Delving into court and charitable ...

PICK OF THE DAY: Ripper Street, 13th Street, 9.30pm.

There are various vintage shops along Brick Lane Street, including Atika London, one of the biggest. Atika London spreads over a two-story Victorian warehouse with more than 20000 pieces of ...

From certain corners of Commercial Street in East London, a busy thoroughfare that runs through the heart of where Jack the Ripper killed five women more than a century ago, the city can look like ...