I use Foyle’s as my own personal lending library, buy and take back later and it has a great cafe too. Far and away the best bookshop in London, it’s an independent version of what Borders used to be. I think it’s accurate to say that Ray’s cafe is the central meeting point for anyone [...]

The Coronet must be the most spectacular of all the old independent cinemas. The interior of cinema one, which is the original theatre, is decorated in a Louis XVI style with the auditorium still possessing the two original elliptically curved balconies. The ghost of a female cashier reputedly haunts the cinema. Legend has it that [...]