Ancient City Trust pays £4million for three-year-long Tower Bridge facelift 22,000 litres of paint will be used on Tower Bridge 44,000 man hours to complete the Tower Bridge job over a three- year period Tower Bridge will retain its traditional blue and white colour dating back to 1894 1,500 tonnes of expendable abrasive will be used to blast Tower Bridge back to its metal framework before repainting 40,000... 

Harris Digital Productions has started recording the planting of London’s first vineyard since Middle Ages. Volunteers with Bacchus vines Volunteers gathered at Forty Hall Organic Farm in Enfield on Tuesday 5th May to plant the first acre of a groundbreaking new project – to plant London’s first commercial vineyard since medieval times. Forty Hall Vineyard is a new social enterprise led... 

New viewing platform On Saturday 11 October the streets around the Monument were closed for an exciting landmark event in the Monument restoration project. A massive 100 tonne crane winched a new balustrade and platform cage on to the viewing platform. The balustrade was lifted in two sections before workmen welded it together. The operation took five hours to complete. The platform cage has been constructed... 

Monument, London The Monument, one of the City of London’s most outstanding landmarks and visitor attractions, will close on 30 July for an 18-month programme of improvements and repairs. The £4.5 million project, funded by the City of London Corporation, will involve the cleaning and repair of the Monument’s stonework and the re-gilding of it’s famous golden orb. A range of new and improved... 

The Beasts of Bloomsbury For many years, a masterpiece of English Baroque Architecture had languished forgotten and decaying in Central London. This is the Church of St George’s Bloomsbury, designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor in the early 18th Century. The tower and steeple of St George’s is one of Hawkmoor’s most inspired dramatic and theatrical designs. It is based on the... 

Work has now started on the production of a programme following the dismantling of the Temple Bar Gateway at Theobalds Park, Cheshunt and the rebuilding at Paternoster Square, in the City of London. Temple bar Gateway Harris Digital Productions filmed the 18 month project, which clocked up over 130 hours of video footage. You can watch a preview of our forthcoming production on the Temple Bar Gateway...