Do go South

North Londoners will always warn you to go South of the river Thames. You just stay where you've been born. The area you live in is a strong and untouchable part of your identity.

But the South has quite a lot to offer, not only for tourists.

I walked through Lambeth yesterday as I was going to attend the live broadcasting of the 5 O'Clock Show with Fern Britton in the London Television Centre at the Southbank.

A very popular attration of the area is the Imperial War Museum with the country's only exhibition devoted to the Holocaust which is not recommended for under-14s. I didn't go into the museum but took this picture of a part the Berlin wall.

As Fürth, Lambeth once was an industrial area famous for the production of mirrors and glas, but also artificial stone called cast stone. People working there 100 years ago had to share small houses with a couple of other families and bare the smoky air and noises of the trains running through the area.

Today these former workers' homes are strongly sought-after and you easily forget how tough life must have been here once.