May 2013

The British Library explores the dark arts of Propaganda

A look around an empty office block in Victoria

Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June

How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms

A few Crossrail construction site photos

Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend

April 2013

Tom Daley's swimming trunks become a Museum artefact

Cyclists wanted to test "Dutch Roundabouts"

Thoughts about the Acid on the Jubilee Line

20 years ago - Queen announces public tours of Buckingham Palace

A look around St Mary-at-Finchley Church

Tower Bridge Opens a New Exhibition

Westminster Council is selling off its street signs

A look around St Pancras Old Church

In praise of Euston Railway Station

New exhibition inside Westminster's Jewel Tower

Photos - An overnight rehearsal of Lady Thatcher's funeral

Preparations for a funeral

Planes, Trains and Drains at the Building Centre

Roman remains found by new entrance to Bank Tube Station

Dare you enter the Micrarium?

London Underground to run a Steam Train again in May

The curious history of the kitchen mixing bowl

Public tours of The Orbit start again

March 2013

Take a ride on one of London's Miniature Steam Trains

What lies hidden in Canary Wharf's steel plant pots

Suggestions for things to do outside London in April

Pompeii comes to the British Museum

Blue Plaque Unveiled for Tube Map Pioneer

There is a Big Red Shed on the SouthBank

The hidden garden opposite Cannon Street Station

Remember when shops used to have a half-day closing?

Chance to visit the "Battle of Britain" underground bunker

Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, Guildhall Library!

Photos - Inside the Crossrail station at Bond Street

London Wall's Ugliest Tower Block

Massive bronze Polo sculptures sitting in Docklands

My bookcase is empty

The docklands church built from bits of Old London Bridge

A restored WW2 anti-aircraft gun by Canary Wharf

70th Anniversary of the Bethnal Green Disaster

February 2013

A visit to the Wallace Collection

Photos from inside the Woolwich Crossrail Station

Fancy a look around 10 Downing Street's back garden?

Have your photo taken with Jeremy Bentham

The gothic masterpiece concealed in Marylebone

The Connaught Tunnel - then and now

There is a conference taking place

The Huguenot Legacy at the Bank of England

A visit to the Dr Who museum in East London

The General, The Scientist & The Banker

The Tweed Run Returns to London

The Opulent Interior of St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

75th anniversary of the first science-fiction show on BBC TV

The London Museum with its own Room 101

Reserve your places for a rare tour of a WW2 Bunker

A room full of China in the British Museum

Book tickets to see inside a future Crossrail Station

A look inside the Lighthouse HQ next to the Tower of London

I missed a train today

The Newgate Execution Bell - now in a Holborn Church

In which I discuss the future of Heathrow Airport...

January 2013

Get your tickets for the Ig Nobel tours

A drawing of Parliament from the Victoria Tower made in 1860

Last day of free Wi-Fi on the Underground

The nature reserve squashed in between three railway lines

Three Enigma Machines on display in the Science Museum

The English Civil War Society parades along The Mall

The Robots of Death at the Gunnersbury Park Museum

Large ceremonial parade in Whitehall on Sunday morning

Time to book tickets for Royal Ceremonies

Chance to visit a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Things to do outside London during February

Murder in the British Library

A Combine Harvester is outside St Paul's Cathedral today

Baker Street Underground Station made out of Lego

Steam trains return to the London Underground after a 50 year absence

Photos from the top of The Shard skyscraper

Google celebrates the London Underground with a Doodle

Best places to photograph London Underground's heritage steam train trips

Diverting the Fleet River for the London Underground

Blocking spambots on Wordpress blogs

The other two London Underground anniversaries this month

Construction of the Metropolitan Railway at King's Cross

Happy New Year

December 2012

Treetops and cottages inside Kew Gardens

The top ten blog posts of 2012

How the world's first underground (passenger) railway was built

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - Xmas Day

Smithfield meat market's boisterous Christmas Eve auction

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 24th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 23rd Dec

A look around a gothic inspired church in Westminster

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 22nd Dec

Things to do outside London during January

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 21st Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 20th Dec

The Southbank Centre's new events listings page - a rant

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 19th Dec

Photos - the Crossrail tunnel portal at Plumstead

Photos - A submarine is visiting Canary Wharf

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 18th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 17th Dec

Free entry to Kew Gardens over Christmas

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 16th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 15th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 14th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 13th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 12th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 11th Dec

Tower Bridge to get a glass floor

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 10th Dec

Go on board a sailing ship in St Katherine Dock

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 9th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 8th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 7th Dec

Look out for four steam trains in London this Saturday

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 6th Dec

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 5th Dec

London Underground's 150th anniversary - more details released

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 4th Dec

South London railway disused for 100 years comes back to life

London Underground have covered up a sub-station with art

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 3rd Dec

The View Tube reopens next to the Olympic Park

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 2nd Dec

The Myth of Canute's Canal in South London

An Edwardian Advent Calendar - 1st Dec

November 2012

London's Lost Pneumatic Railways - Part 5

Photos from inside the Brompton Oratory

London's Lost Pneumatic Railways - Part 4

London's Lost Pneumatic Railways - Part 3

East London Line - Drivers Cab video

London's Lost Pneumatic Railways - Part 2

WW2 underground shelter exhibition in Westminster

London's Lost Pneumatic Railways

The ruins of King Edward III's manor house

The splendour that is the Victorian "Cathedral of North London"

Things to do outside London during December

25 Years Ago

Free bus tours of the former Olympic site to start

London Transport during the Blitz

A look around the Victoria Station upgrade works

Egyptian Architecture in London - an Exhibition

England's oldest Corpse-Gate can be found in South London

Support a London Museum this Christmas

Memorial to the Unknown Warrior at Victoria Railway Station

A rare chance to see Jeremy Bentham out of his box

Victorian plans to encircle London with a Crystalline Railway

Go inside the Duke of Wellington's London Home

Two Churches and Two Stations in Bethnal Green

The Northern Renaissance opens at the Queen's Gallery

October 2012

Disused tube station to open to the public for tours

Closed for 130 years, the public observation tower in central London

Tickets for the Underground's 150th anniversary steam trips

Suggestions for things to do outside London during November

When a couple of Harrier Jump Jets landed behind St Pancras Station

Dine upon the Danse Macabre at Barts Hospital this weekend

Large cargo ship passing through Tower Bridge on Friday morning

A look inside one of London's longest office buildings

Lost Railway Schemes - the City Terminus Railway

List of London's Bonfire Night Fireworks for 2012

Body Snatchers Invade the Museum of London

How the first Underground Railway might have run under the West End of London

A lacklustre attempt to tell the story of modern British childhood

Take a trip on a miniature steam railway near Heathrow

A look around the Jubilee Line train depot at Stratford

Photos - Fireworks by Parliament

Free tours of construction sites next month

More from the WW2 bunker under a North London housing estate

Victorian Railway Stations that Tried to Span the Thames

Royal Opera House announces Cinema screenings

Grant Museum to start opening at weekends

Artists and scientists are Jiggling Atoms

The Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee

September 2012

A scale model of Old London Bridge

A look around St. Margaret's Church, Barking

Abbey Mills Pumping Station and the Beckton Sewage Plant

The final day of the 50-year old Met Line trains

The last chance to ride in the old Metropolitan Line trains

Where do the annual Remembrance Poppies come from?

Roman remains excavated just behind the Bank of England

Photos from the Top of the "Walkie Talkie" Skyscraper

Six things to see in Guildford

British Railway's Art-Deco Style Electrical Control Room

Tower Bridge Fireworks - Photos

Building the Olympics - bedtime reading

A look inside Crossrail's construction site at Stepney

Red Arrows to fly over London on Monday afternoon

Tom Cribb's snobbish memorial in Woolwich

Two firework displays on the Thames this Sunday evening

August 2012

Demolition of King's Cross's "Ugly Green Shed" Imminent

A "Grand Tour" to say goodbye to London Underground's oldest trains

Fighting Fantasy books to return, but not as books

A look at a 600 year old "timber cathedral" just outside Heathrow

A trip in Heathrow's driverless transit system

Suggestions for things to do outside London during September

In Memoriam: Good King Richard - betrayed, maligned, beloved

More tours of HMS Ocean announced

The remains of Duffield's Sluice in Bermondsey

See London's best preserved Roman floor in a Church Crypt

Some more desperate efforts from the PR industry

Pre-Booking details announced for London Open House Weekend

The unexpected and welcome Olympic Legacy

Heritage Open Days around the South-East of England

Vintage tube train to run on the Underground next month

The Olympic Water Chariots slash their prices

A museum devoted to eye surgery - open this month only

Over 300 vintage London Transport posters to go on sale

Photos from the Crossrail station construction site at Woolwich

Finally getting inside St Dunstan-in-the-West

Get in early with your Olympic souvenir hunting

Chance to see inside a vast forgotten Victorian railway waiting room

A 15th century Clock Tower is fund raising for urgent repairs

The Rhinebeck Panorama on Display inside the Rolls Buildings

July 2012

The Docklands Light Railway's Drainpipe of Doom

The gutted interior of the Arcola Theatre revealed

Happy 25th Birthday to the Docklands Light Railway

How Green Was Our Olympic Park

An unusual train movement on the London Underground

Photos of the (almost) deserted Olympic Park

Suggestions for things to do outside London during August

The moment that I was allowed to open Tower Bridge

A look at some deep Crossrail tunnel shafts

A double-decker bus doing push-ups in Islington

Cultural food and drink events during the Olympics

Art on display in a multi-story car park

Going inside a decaying WW2 Bunker underneath North London

A look around St Lawrence Jewry

One step closer to seeing Steam Trains at Epping tube station

Confusing email about Olympic changes to Canary Wharf

Photos from inside the desolate Fortress Wapping

95th Anniversary of the Founding of the House of Windsor

A look around HMS Ocean at Greenwich

The myth of the King Charles I bust opposite Parliament

The restoration of the Walled Garden at Fulham Palace

Engineering London's Cable Car - a lecture

Free tours of a Royal Navy Warship on Sunday

A look around Southwark Cathedral

Photos of the empty M4 Motorway

Today marks the 800th Anniversary of the Great Fire of Southwark

Tall Towers Appear in Docklands and Greenwich

The Old Jewel Tower of Westminster Palace

Private entrance from Westminster Tube Station for MPs

The (rejected) 2001 Monolith is on display by Tower Bridge

Crossrail puts a skeleton on public display

Photos from inside the abandoned Kingsway Tram Tunnels

Wastescape at the SouthBank Centre

Diamonds on Display at Buckingham Palace

Tickets for the Last Night of the Proms to go on sale this Friday

A second cable car at Greenwich?

A new type of tube train is shown off at the South Bank

June 2012

A look around St Stephen's Walbrook

Pigeons riding Boris Bikes

Inside the Royal Exchange

Last photos of the Cable Car as a Construction Site

How Big Ben originally got its Nickname

Suggestions for things to do outside London during July

Lancaster Bomber to fly over Central London on Thursday

Architecture porn on display at Cannon Street

A list of Monarchs by marriage

Crossrail moves into a former Dr Who film location

Photos from the top of Tower Bridge

In photos - Raising the Olympic Rings to the top of Tower Bridge

How Typhoon jets will intercept unexpected planes during the Olympics

Painted BT Phone Boxes in Trafalgar Square

Celebrate the City - a weekend of heritage events

Rarely seen plans for a Grand Tunnel instead of Tower Bridge

A brief history of Marriage

Heritage Buses to Run Through London this Sunday

Photos - Helicopters flying through Tower Bridge

Fantasy Architecture: Restore the Regent Street Colonnade

On the river during the Jubilee Pageant

Soldiers rehearsing the Diamond Jubilee parade at 4am this morning

May 2012

A sumptuous display of Gold metalwork at Goldsmiths Hall

Flaming beacons being lit around London next Monday

Steam Trains return to the Epping Ongar Railway

The world's oldest surviving wooden church

A look around Chipping Ongar Church and Castle

Photos - The railway tunnels underneath Smithfield Meat Market

Mind the Map at the Transport Museum

Suggestions for things to do outside London during June

Helicopter to fly through Tower Bridge

Steam Trains to run along a disused Tube Line

Another Olympics related "exclusive pop-up experience"

Museums at Night takes place this weekend

The Return of The Cough

Testing being carried out on the new Cable Car route

A look around the Leonardo exhibition at The Queen's Gallery

A bookshop has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner

Birds nesting at Canary Wharf

Ride in a 1938 era tube train at the Rickmansworth Festival

Expect gunfire and explosions near Old St tube station this evening

St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering

A small museum inside a military firing range

Free hot air balloon rides at Liverpool Street Station

The Queen's "crystal diamond" arrives at the Tower of London

April 2012

Look out for a Tall Green Man in the City on May Day

London's Lost Suspension Railway at Kings Cross

The reopening of the Cutty Sark by the Baron Greenwich (and his wife)

A history of Royal Pageantry along the Thames

The ZX Spectrum, my first computer

Suggestions for things to do outside London during May

Three heritage events along the Central Line

Huge military fly past over Windsor Castle in May

Some photos of the Crossrail construction site at Tottenham Court Road

How to get tickets to the Last Night of the Proms

A look around the building works on the Hammersmith Flyover

Olympic sized security exercises on the Thames next month

100 days until the...

New lifts at Greenwich foot tunnel - impress and depress at once

Two overlooked lumps of old London Bridge

At last - a pigeon proof bird feeder

More photos from inside the Connaught Tunnel

Ladies who designed post-war textiles - and mens handkerchiefs

A look around Boston Manor House

70th anniversary of an aircraft factory hidden in a tube tunnel

A new wind-sculpture in Canary Wharf

Looking down a Victorian pumping shaft in Docklands

Animal Inside Out - the Body Worlds exhibition at the Natural History Museum

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the UK's first Panda Crossing

March 2012

North and South linked as Cable Car cables join two sides of the Thames

Some Boris Bike problems

80th birthday for The Building Centre

Punch on the London Underground

Suggestions for things to do outside London in April

Light show at Crystal Palace

Another date announced for the Cable Car's "cable stringing event"

The memorial to London's largest ever explosion

Another upgrade for the Jubilee Line completed

Photos from inside the Crossrail Station at Canary Wharf

Photos from inside Westminster Hall

Tax changes for the Cable Car ticket prices

A look around the outside of Crumbles Castle

The dead bodies service from King's Cross railway station

A look at the original Kings Cross station - at Maiden Lane

A London history festival that's worth looking forward to

Photos behind the hoardings of the new Kings Cross station

More Photos of the Cable Car Construction

Please stop describing doing something as "having an experience"

Tate and Lyle's staff park in Silvertown

The Tweed Run Returns to London

How TfL is planning for the Olympics traffic deluge

The De Morgan Gallery of Paintings and Pottery

Naked escalator porn

Wandsworth Museum

Boris Bike Expansion - maps released at last

Three steam trains visiting London on Saturday

The industrial wasteland at North Greenwich

February 2012

A look around the Vestry House Museum

PR Stunt to pass through Tower Bridge tomorrow - maybe

Suggestions for things to do outside London in March

Cable Car Rising

Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum

Scanning Victorian newspapers

Museums by Appointment - The London Scottish Regimental Museum

Emergency services to simulate a terrorist attack on the tube network

Photos - Blackfriars tube station reopens

Looking around the Duchy of Lancaster's Estates in London

Updated photos from the Cable Car construction site

Is it time to restore Collop Monday as an English tradition?

Green Park tube station to get groundwater cooling system

Public Open Day at the National Physical Laboratory

Another batch of PR junk emails

Cables for the Cable Car to arrive next month

The restoration of Clissold House in Hackney

Do Bears Actually Shit in Woods?

Visiting the Museum of the Order of St John

New Boris Bike stands at Canary Wharf

Military Flypasts over London in 2012

Photos from inside Crossrail's concrete factory

Museums by Appointment - The British Airways Heritage Collection

RMT tells station staff they shouldn't grit platforms/ticket halls

Photos of the Greenwich Fireworks

Gun Salutes in Hyde Park and at the Tower of London today

Repairing the Locks on the Hertford Union Canal

The acolytes of Gormley muster in the fields

The year that you could catch a Helicopter from Waterloo Station

Photos inside a future Crossrail Tunnel

January 2012

How will the Olympics change transport habits - in the future

Museum of London wants a glass pyramid on its roof

Boris Bike stand maps ignoring the River Thames

Attending the Ceremony of the Constable's Dues

Illumini are seeking Victorian Speakers and Relics

Look out for the English Civil War march on Sunday

Free tours of a Royal Navy Destroyer this weekend

Luggage racks from the old Met Line trains for sale

Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids

Pay a visit to South London's famous stuffed Walrus

Suggestions for things to do outside London during February

How to write a press release

How to get tickets to the 2012 Ig Nobel Awards tour

An Ivy Clad Phone Box

London's Last Surviving Toll Gate

Big firework display in Greenwich

Too many improvements in an email - TfL's changing language

Photos from behind the hoardings at Blackfriars Station

A few photos of the Cable Car under construction

A is for Adolf - Teaching German Children Nazi Values

List of Gun Salutes at the Tower of London this year

The tale of the "Dead Body Train" at Whitechapel

Crossrail is looking for names for its giant tunnelling machines

The story of the Golden Boy of Pye Corner

Go Wassailing at the Bankside on Sunday

Daily Mail using my photo of Cock Lane

It's the 250th anniversary of the Cock Lane ghost

To be hung by the neck until dead, an execution is announced

Michael Portillo rides on the Post Office Railway

How to get tickets to Royal Ceremonies

My Predications for the year ahead - in 1512

December 2011

The top blog posts on IanVisits during 2011

Light Pollution in the City of London

Photos of an Empty London on Christmas Morning

A Victorian Advent Calendar - Christmas Day

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 24th Dec

A Festival of Winter Walks

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 23rd Dec

Christmas Lunch for One?

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 22nd Dec

The Comparative Effects of Modern vs Medieval Diets on Urine Potency

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 21st Dec

Suggestions for things to do outside London in January

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 20th Dec

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 19th Dec

One thing a day to do in London

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 18th Dec

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 17th Dec

Watch some steam trains in London on Saturday

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 16th Dec

Updated photos of the Canary Wharf Crossrail Station

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 15th Dec

Inside the restored St Stephen's, Rosslyn Hill

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 14th Dec

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 13th Dec

The hidden wonders behind closed doors and under streets

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 12th Dec

GASP at the splendour of St Christopher's Chapel inside GOSH

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 11th Dec

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 10th Dec

Steam train passing through East London on Saturday

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 9th Dec

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 8th Dec

A Dickens exhibition at the Museum of London

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 7th Dec

Today is the 200th anniversary of the Ratcliffe Highway murders

First Pylon for Boris's Cable Car Installed

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 6th Dec

Photos - underground brick vaults by the Mall

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 5th Dec

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 4th Dec

Four chances to watch steam trains in London today

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 3rd Dec

Guide book to disused underground tube and train stations

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 2nd Dec

Christmas beers at Nicholsons Pubs

A Victorian Advent Calendar - 1st Dec

November 2011

75th Anniversary of the Destruction of the Crystal Palace

Watch a steam train in West and North London at Lunchtime

Photos inside the disused tube station at Aldwych

Things to do outside London during December

A preview of the Natural History Museum's exhibitions in 2012

London Underground Moquette at Canary Wharf

The Met Police improve their website

A chance to go into Tower Bridge's hidden Bascule Chambers

The Crystal Palace Subway Tunnel

Support a London Museum this Christmas

Free entry to St Paul's Cathedral this Saturday

A 3D model of Bank Tube Station - and a look at the upgrade plans

Parish Notice: Adding Google+ to the website

Mince Pies that go stale before Christmas Day

Attempts to close the London Fire Brigade Museum

The underground railway in North Korea

Around 500 vintage motor cars to drive from London to Brighton

Your chance to visit an abandoned tube station

Google makes changes to its RSS Reader - Howls of Protest Erupt

More details of London Underground's 150th Anniversary Events

October 2011

Changes Announced to London's only Parliamentary Train Service

Inside the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Livery Hall

IanVisits is 5 years old today

The Northern Line tunnel - bombed and flooded in 1940 - and still sealed shut

The Waverley is in trouble

The little used pedestrian tunnel by London Bridge

I'm launching a new database of historic anniversaries

A huge model of the City of London

Things to do outside London during November

List of London’s Bonfire Night Fireworks for 2011

A garish smorgasbord of 2012 memorabilia in John Lewis

The 17th century prison doorway in Westminster

10th Anniversary of The Gherkin

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of London Bridge

How the media reported that "Big Ben" is leaning

Visiting a WW2 Air Raid Shelter in Woodford

Were London's Streets Once Paved with Gold?

A New Gallery is Opened at the Natural History Museum

Fancy testing part of a future Crossrail Station?

The amazingly gloomy interior of Westminster Cathedral

100th Anniversary of the Escalator on London Underground

How NOT to improve your website ranking in search engines

Free Showing of War of the Worlds (1953) on the big screen

Views From Two Towers in Two Cities - Both in London

September 2011

A Slightly Behind-the-Scenes Look at Kings Cross Train Station

Pearly Kings and Queens on Parade

Collecting cups

Things to do outside London during October

A tour of the Crossrail tunnel portal at Royal Oak

A mysterious structure in the Vaults under London Bridge train station

Photos from the 18th Floor of the Broadgate Tower

Open House - West Ham Bus Garage

Open House - Bazalgette's Western Pumping Station

A tour around Shoreham Power Station

The tube train that travels through time and space

Last chance bookings for London Open House

How to request your own Spitfire flypast over London

Architects Drawings Overlook the Tidal Aspect of The Thames

A look around the historic rooms in Surrey County Hall

Remains of an undercroft and 12th century bridge under John Lewis

The Goodyear Blimp is flying over London again

A tour inside RAF Bentley Priory

Win a Moquette covered chair

How the media deal with blogger identities

Visit the Golden Temple of Amritsar - in London

Hurrah for Horizon as science returns to BBC2

August 2011

Photos - the new DLR Extension to Stratford International

A Boris Bike has been seen in Toronto

The London Design Festival

200th anniversary of the New Marshalsea Prison in Southwark

BT Tower about to lose its antennas

Chesham Shuttle to Return to Service this Weekend

The DLR extension is finally opening

Things to do outside London during September

The ARC Gloria arrives in London

Crime numbers on the London Underground

Tours of the UK's Synchrotron particle accelerator

A Grand Day Out - Taking the Boris Bikes to Paris

Taking the Boris Bikes to Paris

Peering inside NASA's Apollo 10 Command Module

Tall Sailing Ship Visiting London - Free Tours

Vintage trains running on the London Underground

700th Anniversary of the Banishment of Piers Gaveston

Booking opens today for tours of the BT Tower

West India Lock Opening

Going Inside Stockwell Bus Garage

A trip in a very special vintage double-decker bus

The other Open House weekend outside London

Crossrail photography competition

The Dairy Supply Company near the British Museum

Dr Who in Comics - an exhibition

Pre-Booking Details Released for London Open House Weekend

Photos - inside the disused tube station at Brompton Road

Become a Micro-Lender with Kiva

Boris Bike Blunder Bedevils Baffled Blogger

One of London's Airports Gains a New Train Station

London Fire Brigade Museum - Open Day

July 2011

Public Exhibition about the Kings Cross redevelopment

Hidden under a main road - the remains of Merton Priory

There are Owls on the London Underground

Jubilee Line Upgrade finally going live next week

Photos - Drifting over South London in a Hot Air Balloon

Standing inside a London Ice Well

Visiting the Roman Ruins under a 1970s office block

A canal boat tour of the Olympic Park

Hot Air Balloons Floating Over London Playing Music

Vote for the Parliamentary Foam Party

PR hell in a Ibiza nightclub

What's on in August outside London

Visiting the remains of the Rose Theatre hidden under an office block

Kew Gardens - The Glasshouses

German Cruise ship tests London 2012 preparations

BBC Documentary about London Transport's HQ Building

Kew Gardens - Going Asian

Do you drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day?

A Murdoch's Progress

Attend the 2011 Cart Marking Ceremony

Kew Gardens - the Treetop Walkway

The Beeches Light Railway - a private steam railway

Watch the Space Shuttle fly over London

Exhibition about the Thames Cable Car opens at the Building Centre

How to Get Tickets to the Last Night of the Proms

The day I got to ride in the drivers cab on a heritage railway line

North Weald Airfield Museum

Dan Cruickshank on the changes in Spitalfields

30th Anniversary of the Docklands Development Corporation

How deep is every tube station on the Underground?

Geek Overload at the Transport Museum

June 2011

London's River Park

Today marks the final trip of the '67s on the Victoria Line

Donating art to the nation - avoiding tax

Bishopsgate Institute - Relaunch Weekend

A roof garden on the 10th floor of an office block

Taking a Private Trip in London's Parliamentary Train Service

Spitfire Fighter Plane flying over North London on Saturday

BT Tower to be open again for London Open House

What's on in July Outside London

US Coast Guard's Tall Sailing Ship in London

Watch a steam train run though South London (and Kensington)

Riverside path reopens at Canary Wharf

Vintage tube train trip - timetable published

Attending the 2011 Garter Ceremony

The London Library is to start offering tours again

An Open Day at the Epping Ongar Railway

If Monty Python were around today

In photos - the Queen's Birthday Flypast

The fraught relationship between bloggers and public relations

25 Military Aircraft to Fly Over London on Saturday

Poyekhali! Yuri Gagarin photo display at the Royal Albert Hall

Youh ish ma besht friend you ish.

How did one of Sir Christopher Wren's Churches end up in Sth London?

World's largest Steampunk exhibition visits London

Beefeaters Beating the Bounds at the Tower of London

Fantasy Architecture - Parliament Square

Art and architecture tours of Portcullis House

Former London Underground Station turned into Art Gallery

North Sea Fishing Trawler visiting London for a few days

May 2011

Ride in a vintage tube train to Heathrow Airport

Presenting the IanVisits Festival of London Thingies

Does The Queen have a Boris Bike account?

Open Day at the Army's training Academy at Sandhurst

Photos from inside the Crossrail station at Canary Wharf

HMS Ark Royal's Battle Ensign (not) on display in Docklands

Do you know of an underground Victorian era building?

Have you been to the new Grant Museum yet?

A tour of the Eurostar repair depot at Stratford

A small improvement to my Listings Guide

Introducing the Curated Blog Post

Explosions and helicopters over Shoreditch last night

Watch a military display in the City of London

Steam trains to return to the Met Line on the Underground?

Farewell to London Underground's oldest serving tube trains

Watch the 1967 tube train make its farewell tour

Bloggers Triumphant at the Hunterian Museum

Late night openings at London Museums this weekend

Spitfire flypast over North London at Lunchtime

Twitpic changes its terms of service

The Thames at the London Transport Museum

Future Battersea Tube Station Wont be Accessible to Disabled - Maybe

HIGNFY recording with Alexander Armstrong, et alia

Booking opens for the Open Garden Squares Weekend

Riding the night bus into London

WW2 Bomber to fly over London on Wednesday Lunchtime

City Farm Review: Stepney City Farm

If Guggenheim designed carrier bags

April 2011

Follow Dracula on Twitter

Walking through an abandoned train tunnel under London's Docks

A Pre-Dawn Rehearsal for the Royal Wedding, in photos

City Farm Review: Spitalfields City Farm

Chance to take a trip in a 1938 tube train

Sitting in the driving seat on a DLR train

Turning the deep level air-raid shelters into cheap hotels

Photos - the City of London's 800 year old Guildhall

City Farm Review: Hackney City Farm

City Farm Review: Kentish Town City Farm

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom....

City Farm Review: Freightliners Farm

Photos of the Church of St. Alban the Martyr in Holborn

City Farm Review: Brooks Farm

City Farm Review: Belmont Children's Farm

A review of London's City Farms

Photos from the top of One New Change

Visiting an archological dig behind the British Library

A Giant Advert is Floating Over London

No, just not going to happen - ever

Special tube train tour next month on the Underground

From The Clothing Of The Dead, The Rings Of Unanswered Phones

Highlights from the City of London Festival

Pre-order the London Open House Weekend Guide

On behalf of the General Public, an apology

May 2011 - The Deptford Jack visits Greenwich

Bale of straw to be hung from Tower Bridge

Watch 400 Cyclists parade though London wearing Tweed Jackets

London is not particularly charitable survey doesn't say

A Charnel House at Liverpool Street Crossrail Station?

The Queen makes a declaration

Folkestone Gardens in New Cross

Free entry to London's Roman Amphitheatre

Views of London from a "hidden hill" in Rotherhithe

South London's Abandoned Tube Tunnel

Big changes to my blog and London events listings calendar

March 2011

Tower Bridge to lift for the first time in months

A letter to PC World

Military Flypasts over London in 2011

Video of a Steam Train passing the Olympic Stadium

Pipes under pavements exposed in all their nakedness

Photos of the Crossrail station at Canary Wharf

It's a registered trademark

Some old almshouses behind the Tate Modern

Watt gets a dedicated display in the Science Museum?

Chance to tour a nuclear fusion reactor

Your night is my day: London Underground never sleeps

The "fake Crossrail tube station" hidden in a rural warehouse

Photos - Two military hovercraft on the Thames

Big Royal Navy Warship visiting Greenwich this week

The Grant Museum Reopens this Week

A tour around the Sellafield Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant

Ig... Quack! Quack! Quack! ...Nobels

Introducing the iFag

Tickets to the Tower of London are HOW MUCH!?

Fancy a trip to Acton this weekend?

London's changing weather

Web designer rants are dead: Long live web designer rants

For Sale - a Model of the Rotherhithe Tunnel Shield

A map of London's public toilets

February 2011

The Ig Nobel Tour Goes "After Dark"

Last chance to visit the Greenwich Observatory for Free

Watch the Space Shuttle pass over London this week

HMS Westminster in Canary Wharf

20,000 Tweets by IanVisits

Hospital food

A trip with the archaeologists on the River Thames

The "secret crypt" under St John's Church in Waterloo

The Tweed Run Returns for 2011

Dates announced for the 13th Open Gardens Squares Weekend

New TV series about London's Mudlarks

The story behind www.ismubarakstillpresident.com

Watch a Steam Train on Valentines Night

15 years since the Docklands bombing

Get tickets to the Ig Nobel Awards

The huge undercroft under the Albert Memorial

Plans to resurrect the ZX Spectrum?

Disused tube station for sale

100 Phantoms to glide through London on Sunday

Juggernaut threat to tiny Hanway Street?

January 2011

Hobbs End tube station - made from Lego

Watch a Large Ceremonial Procession Along The Mall this Sunday

Catch the last ever trip on c2c's Blue Train

This Sunday – the 350th Anniversary of the execution of Oliver Cromwell

Parish Notice – How to put your photo next to blog comments

£10 to stand on the Greenwich Meridian Line?

Flickr’s use of the NoFollow tag in weblinks

Climb to the top of the Tower in Windsor Castle

City of London still paying a Dowry from a 19th century fund

Google Offering Free Advertising to Musuems & Charities

London's first skyscraper gets listing upgrade

Cannon fire at the Tower of London

Will The Queen offer a job to a convicted criminal?

Westminster is NOT the Mother of all Parliaments

The origin of Ye in Ye Olde Shoppe

Look Out for a Steam Train Travelling Around Sth & West London on Saturday

Farewell to the Starbucks Mugs

Mayor's Consultation Meeting - Let's Talk Transport

Wassailing at the Bankside

Photos - Reflections in the River Thames

Copyright thieves

Request tickets to watch the Garter Service

December 2010

What were the Top-10 blog posts of 2010?

Visiting the Charles Dickens Museum on Christmas Day

Even More Photos of a Deserted London

Beware unexpected visitors on Christmas Day

There isnt some public transport on Christmas Day!

By the Queen - A Proclamation!

There is a museum open on Christmas Day

Today marks the 120th Anniversary of the Northern Line

A chat with the Top Man at Transport for London

All Hail the Super Docking Station!

Photos of the Early Printing Presses at Fleet Street

Help me improve the London Listings Guide

Boris on top of The Shard

The underground crypt in the City of London

A look around St Peter's Church in London Docks

The Nature Study Museum in Stepney

An Execution at Charing Cross Station

Mulled wine at HIGNFY

How the majority of us turned Vegetarian without even noticing

November 2010

A quick look at St George in the East

Crossrail exhibition at the Building Centre

Photographing the Wharncliffe Railway Viaduct

Open Day at the East London Mosque

Talk: Stations of the London Metropolis

An alternative history of space exploration

The obsession with air fresheners

Taking a trip in London's only Funicular railway

Clean up the Canary Wharf station names confusion

Steampunk at a Particle Accelerator

Visiting the UK's Largest Particle Accelerator

How to commute to work in style - on a Steam Train

Guided tours of the Locks on the Grand Union Canal

The wisdom of bees

Free entry to St Paul's Cathedral this Saturday

Allegedly, these are the top-20 blogs in London

London's Transport Museum gains a "Royal Train"

Going on board the Royal Navy Frigate, HMS St Albans

Public tours of a Royal Navy frigate this Saturday

Blink, Blink, Blink

Cooling the London Underground

October 2010

Quatermass and the Central Line tube extension at Hobbs End

A flaccid grey blancmange arrives on London's Cheapside

A fire at last nights recording of HIGNFY

At the Launch of the Geek Calendar

Shop wont sell bird feed during winter months?

Photos from the roof of Senate House

The London to Brighton Car Rally

The Isle of Dogs Declares Independence from the UK

Does Stephen Hawking Dream of Electric Trains?

List of London's Bonfire Night Fireworks for 2010

Kevin Spacey talks about government art spending

An early drawing of Tower Bridge

Photos - Commemorating the Nine Regicides

An open letter to Costa Coffee, et alia

Dante's Inferno in the tunnels under Waterloo Station

Expanding the Events Listings into Twitter

Sinister black speedboat action

Civil War march through Whitehall to mark the Nine Regicides

Stupid website feedback forms

Free tours of the UK's Synchrotron particle accelerator

Abandoned London - Wapping's Tobacco Dock

For 2 weeks only - alternative tube maps on display

Previewing this year's Whisky Show

Big bangs, Smelly explosions & Blowing bubbles

Quatermass and the Pit and a Church

Giving away VHS tapes

Climbing up the Limehouse Accumulator Tower

September 2010

My Top Picks from the Bloomsbury Festival 2010

50th anniversary of Bank Station’s travolator

The Aldwych Tube Station Blitz Experience

A museum for the Emergency Services?

A tour of Grosvenor House Hotel

Natural History Museum jumps onto the “late night” bandwagon

Visiting the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Why didn’t The Pope get a formal gun salute?

Visiting The Conservative Club in St James

A tour of London Underground's Art Deco HQ Building

The Victorians: Time and Space

Get tickets to watch Have I Got News for You being recorded

Are you a swinger?

The Shard Arises - Aug/Sept 2010

A dead whale in London Docklands

The end of Big Brother. At last!

Men in ropes on the Millennium Bridge

A torch lit tour of a Church crypt

Strolling down Jermyn Street

Loyalty is not rewarded

Inventors, your country needs you!

Military Aircraft Flying over London on Tuesday

Highlights from the Story of London

Tours of a Tall Sailing Ship by Tower Bridge

Coming Soon - Guided Tours of Aldwych Tube Station

August 2010

Another way to get a tour of the BT Tower

Riding with the vintage buses

The Museum at the Royal London Hospital

Free rides on vintage buses this weekend

Take a trip in a 1938 tube train

Visiting Roman ruins hidden under a London street

Spitfire flypast over Central London this Friday

Going inside the Freemason's headquarters

End of the road for cowboy car clampers

Parish Notice - Improving communications

Booking opens to visit the top of the BT Tower

Photos of London from the top of the Millbank Tower

A whole week of Subterranean London events

Huge Panorama of London in 1845

That "Other" Open House Weekend

Booking Details for London Open House Weekend 2010

The Shard Arises – July 2010

Homeless people offering guided tours of London

Visiting a huge tunnel network under Rochester

Visiting Rochester

July 2010

The Lord Mayor's Annual Lecture at Mansion House

PR Fail

Hampstead Tube Station: Past & Posters

Chance to visit the top of the BT Tower

London 2012 Game Makers - Disabled people need not apply

A room full of ancient scrolls and parchments

London charities can claim £80,000 of free advertising per year

The 2010 cart marking ceremony

Visiting the catacombs under Brompton Cemetery

The genius of Cecil Court's "find us" maps page

Happy St Swithin's Day

Sailing Ship to pass through Tower Bridge today

Fire Over by the London Eye

Free tours of Victoria Tower at the Houses of Parliament

The Victorian Catacombs of South London

Changes to the DLR service

London Underground's "secret" tube station

The History of Beeswax in London

Memories of 7th July 2005

Photos - Red Arrows flypast over London

The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy

Transforming Aldwych Tube Station

Does Amazon think I am a transvestite?

June 2010

Slapping white paint on London's roofs

Last chance to visit London's Grant Museum before it closes

Dr Who and the Deus ex Machina of Doom

How school kids draw pictures of scientists

The Shard Arises - June 2010

Chance to visit the disused Aldwych tube station

A crumbling Georgian House in Spitalfields

Saturday tours of the Houses of Parliament

A weekend visiting private gardens - in photos

An Unfortunate Reaction to Last Nights Football

Fantasy Architecture - A viewing tower for Crystal Palace

The 2010 Open Garden Squares Weekend

An Afternoon of Polo at London's Hurlingham Park

Imran Khan at the House of Commons

The Destruction of London's Newgate Prison

London entries in the National Lottery Awards

May 2010

Four NATO warships in Docklands

Interesting cloud formation over London

She who must be obeyed

Celebrate the 350th Oak Apple Day this Saturday

I'm closing my account with you

The Queen's Speech and a Coalition Government - of 1854

Cruise Liners Visiting London in 2010

The East London Line - in the style of a Victorian Newspaper

It's too hot

The Shard Arises – April & May 2010

A Panorama of New York City in 1855

Open Evening at the Honourable Artillery Company

The Mail Server has Crashed

London Overground Service to Shrink on Sunday

River Thames to be Checked for Unexploded Bombs

The Wellington Testimonial Clock-Tower in Southwark

Spending a penny

Job vacancy - an Ale Taster for Spitalfields market

Beating the Bounds and Thrashing the Thames

Last Chance to Visit Hampstead Observatory

A New Asylum for Idiots

Tours of 10 Downing Street

London Festival of Architecture Debate

The Victorian Panopticon in London's Leicester-Square

Dr Who, Ancient Egyptians and a Glass of Wine

A Declaration of War

Repairing the Fleet Sewer

The last RAF "Seaplane Tender" visits London

When there were icebergs in the River Thames

Buying Shoes

April 2010

Croydon's Experimental Atmospheric Railway

Vintage Transport Posters at Christies

First Day of the East London Line

A Jack in the Green Procession in Southwark on May Day

Visiting an Underground Cold War Bunker

Chalk Cut Christian Cross in Countryside

St George's Day Pageant in London

A Destructive Fire at East Greenwich

My personal choices from the City of London Festival

Vintage Motor Cars at the RAF Museum

Pictures of the Digging of the Fleet Sewer

Ha! Ha! Ha! Hee! Hee! Hee! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

Subways and tunnels under the City of London

The Proclamation for the Dissolution of the Present Parliament

The Myth of Wren's Masterplan for London

The 2010 London Tweed Run

The Original Hungerford Bridge

A Tunnel Deep Under Trafalgar Square

How the railway telegraph helped arrest a murderer in 1845

The Tube Geek's Bible - Rails Through The Clay

Visiting the Markfield Beam Engine

The Shard Arises - March 2010

Flickr Spam

Nigel Farage on Have I Got News for You

March 2010

British Library adds a million pages of Victorian Newspapers to its archive

Tower Bridge goes Dark for Earth Hour

Map of London and its Toll Gates from 1857

Why I am willing to pay to read the news online - sometimes

Brown Bread vs White Bread

Outdoor music at Somerset House this Summer

Why I am opting out of the NHS Summary Care Records Scheme

Phone numbers and memorable questions

Military Flypasts over London (and surrounds)

A Walk Along Industrial North Greenwich

Analogue Clocks on Digital Websites

Walking though Brunel's Tunnel under the Thames

The strange appeal of walking through tube tunnels

How similar are Europeans to Americans?

Buying new furniture

Of a Wood, a Castle and a Common

The Shard Arises!

Map of London in 1787

BBC's Blogworld - The Best International Blogs

Brunel's Thames Tunnel Open to the Public

How to Get Tickets to Have I Got News for You

The Patent Elevator and Observatory - of 1856

Fines for delays to roadworks - or is there?

February 2010

Free Entry to London's National Trust Properties

A Map of Westminster from 1593

Secret tube train to Buckingham Palace

Curiouser and curiouser at the British Library

Zainer’s imperfect impressions: 15th century printing methods

Dr Scott's Electric Hair Brush - from Oct 1882

Book tickets for Trooping the Colour

Vulcan Bomber Flight over London Might be Cancelled

The 2010 Open Garden Squares Weekend

Big Gun on Display at Woolwich

Painting London's roofs white

How to get your own fake passport

Don't forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon Day!

Secret rooms in the British Museum

Curiouser and curiouser: The genius of Alice In Wonderland

Treasures of Lambeth Palace Library Exhibition

Free membership of The Georgian Group

The man who saved our industrial heritage

The annual Towpath Tidy event

Viking Funerals in London?

This episode of Eastenders was brought to you by the NHS

David Dimbleby's Seven Ages of Britain

The 728th Trial of the Pyx

The Ig Nobel Awards come to London

Some Photos of London - Tilt/Shifted

Underground Maps Unravelled

Want to own your very own Dr Who Cyberman?

A Drawing of the Old Houses of Parliament in 1760

Large moon over London

It's "Follow a Museum Day" on Twitter

January 2010

Some photos of a City Tower

Antique Maps at the British Library

The "al-Durrah incident"

Steam Train to recreate the Bristolian Express service

Free tickets to the LSE's Literary Festival

Talisker Tasting and an early Burns Night

Will policy, or technology win the next election

UKIP wants to ban the scarf, the woolly hat and gloves

Port of London Authority "leaks" General Election Date?

EXCLUSIVE: How London's snow really arrives

Have we lost our grit?

Docklands in the Snow

Steam Train in the Snow

London Festival of Architecture

Salt

Port tasting event

If the Burj Dubai was in London...

Happy Smart Clothing Day!

Ski Posters

December 2009

Train fares to rise - Train fares to fall

The Bicycle Pump

Suspended from Twitter

My New Aviary

Bird's Eye View of the London Docks in 1845

Riding the last ever fully circular circle line train

Bacchanalian Xmas Tree Lights

Le Morte d'Teletext

Christmas Carols in the City

Photo contest with Wikimedia and Museums

DLR Launches Photography Contest

The Man Behind the Masquerade

Free tours of a live film set

November 2009

Huge Rainbow over the City of London

Steam Train Charges Through North London

Bob Crow on Have I Got News for You

The crumbliest flakiest milk chocolate in the world

Catch the last fully circular Circle Line train

CERN on Twitter

Unusual Christmas Tree Decorations

On board Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior

More on the "secret" tunnel under Whitehall

Pssst - want a 15th century suit of armour?

Tour a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Rehearsing the State Opening of Parliament

Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

V for Vendetta - Live in Westminster

A Guide to London's Alleys, Courtyards and Passages

London in the 1950s - archive film footage

The Weather Forecast

October 2009

Ghosts on the London Underground

Wellcome Collection Winter Events - Booking Starts Today

Werewolves and whisky

The New South Quay DLR Station - Photos

Creepy

London Moves Me

Homocea - The Victorian cure for both ends of your body?

London's first cinema and Professor Pepper’s Ghost

Companies that take a month to update a database

When the Central Line was used as a fighter plane factory

Ian at Holborn tube station

Rainbow over London

Remember, Remember the 5th (6th and 7th) of November

£37 for a walking tour of Whitechapel?

The March of the Archers

Windows Error Message at London Bridge

Chord inside the Kingsway Subway Tunnel

The Doors

Tower Bridge in the Dereliction

Watching The Shard go up

September 2009

Chance to visit the Kingsway Subway tunnels

An improvement (maybe?) to the listings guide

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune

London Open House Weekend - The Naval Club

Europe - Proposals for Freedom

London Open House Weekend - The Thames Tunnel

Heritage Question Time

London Open House - The White Tower

London Open House - Westminster Town Hall

New Dixons adverts

The Fugitive Futurist - or how the Thames was drained of water

A talk by Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum

It's raining

Afternoon tea with Dr Johnson and friends

I'm not watching the Last Night of the Proms

Helping busy consumers to iron clothes even faster

Science and media disconnect? Maybe not, says a new study

A chance to climb a tall sailing ship mast

More Picnics Please

August 2009

Castrol GTX

Friday evening trip on the 1938 tube train?

A unique interactive exhibition

Radical new concept challenges Facebook for teen market

Dr. Seuss and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Battle of the London Bridges on Twitter

B&W News Clips about London's Docks

Are tobacco websites banned in the UK?

Have I Got News for You - ticket procedure change

Charles Dickens's England - A Documentary

Travel and Vintage Posters

The Met Police "Heritage Centre"

London Open House Weekend - Bookings

Heritage Train Trip to the Disused Platforms at Charing Cross

All the Kings men: Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons

July 2009

Spam and chips

Westminster to get missile defense against attacks

Small(ish) improvement to the events guide

An Old Napoleonic Bollard in Wapping?

What did you think of the Story of London events

The City of London board game

Special heritage train outing on the Jubilee line

The Queen to watch Swan Upping - for the first time

Take the 1938 Tube Train to the Disused Charing Cross Platforms

London's Lost Tunnel

How London Bridge Fell Down

Met Police Issue Advice to Amateur Photographers

The Annual Vintners Procession

Harry Potter - analysis paralysis

Brian Cox on the Moon

Gosh and Golly - its a tidal mill

The Internet: Saviour or Corruptor of Democracy?

June 2009

TfL bike hire - not available until May 2010 - advertised today

A Horn Fair Procession From Rotherhithe to Charlton

Website listing all (eventually) of London's Gardens and Squares

Flypast over Tower Bridge

Vintage Trains at Marylebone Station

Another trip on a 1938 Tube Train

Hoxton Hotel's £1 Room Sale

Drive Sheep Over London Bridge

Tours of the Beefeater Gin Distillery

The Knollys Rose Ceremony

Minor change to the website

Visiting the London Fire Brigade Museum

BBC News scraps the "international focus" front page

Photography Banned in Greenwich Foot Tunnel

The RMT - Comic by nature, Comic Sans by letter?

The Chap Olympiad 2009

Railways boost reliability - sort of

May 2009

Jubilee Line tunnels under Big Ben

Request tickets for Armed Forces Day

Public toilet hand dryers

The Story of London

Shop with olde maps in the window

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

Watching Brain Surgery - Live

There is a leopard in my living room

The cartoons of Maggie Thatcher

A tour of the London 2012 Olympics Site

You are Blacklisted!

Get a tour on the latest Royal Navy warship

Job Cuts at Channel 4 News

Watch Heart Surgery - Live

Watch a satellite launch via webcam

BBC says UK unemployment rate hits 7.1 million

I am so sorry for the naughties

On board HMS Illustrious: Part 2

On board HMS Illustrious: Part 1

Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Transport

HIGNFY with Jack Dee

Helicopter flypast over London

Fireworks over HMS Illustrious tonight

A couple of photos of Lusty

The Rubik's Cube Solving Robot

HMS Illustrious @ Greenwich - May 2009 Events

London's Tidal Mill

Electric toasters

The Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green

April 2009

Last chance to visit Hampstead Observatory

The Sanitas Fumigator

The ditch carp of democracy

Tanks can't run on toasters

The Electropathic Belt

Surveillance Britain in 2009?

Win a trip to Mexico

The Shard at London Bridge

London Zoo to help spider-phobics

The arrival of Big Ben at Westminster in 1858

Walk London - free guided walks

London Open House Weekend - Dates Announced

150 Years of Clean Drinking Water

Vintage cars on display

A visit to Croydon Palace

HMS Illustrious to visit London

The Tudors - special preview screening of Series 3

Easter Chair Heaving at Greenwich

Photo Oportunity - Lloyds Building

Ian Tomlinson protest march in the City

Tesla Motors is coming to London!

New Anti-Terror Adverts

Filming gets easier on the London Underground

Supper, Restoration Diaries and a Hymn

Oysters on the Thames

Coming soon to a TV near you? Punishment Idol

A Ripping Yarn of Silver and Salt

The Significance of Significant

The G20 politicians relax after a long day

Hiding from the Raffia-Mafia*

March 2009

Battlestar Helvetica - When Two Cults Mix

Have I Got News for You - tickets available today

The Handsomest Room in Town

Visit a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Handel's Messiah @ Leicester Square

Proposals for Post-Crossrail development at TCR

Researchers find shocking result from survey

A weekly newsletter is launched

London photography competition

Last chance for a tour of The London Library

The DLR's Brief History of The Docklands

The last Thameslink train from Moorgate

Who is Winston Churchill?

Scientific collectables at Christie's

Why you should avoid safari parks

The last Thameslink train from Moorgate

London Murders: Stats Theory Shows Numbers Are Predictable

We're closing your credit card account

It's a "paradigm shift"

The History of the Oxford English Dictionary

A day in Bradford?

Climb up Big Ben - a video

The Ig Nobel Tour of Improbable Research

Churchill's other Cabinet War Rooms

Crossness on The Victorians

Carnal lectures of the sins of the flesh

Scavenger Hunting @ the Acton Depot

London Transport Museum's Open Weekend

Times newspaper removes incorrect story from website

The Watchmen PR Failure

How to get tickets to watch Have I Got News for You

What a mistake-a to make-a!

February 2009

The Iranian Concorde

Looking down over London

Stand on the Trafalgar Square Plinth

Pastafarainism is recognised by the government!

Trooping the Colour

Frobisher Crescent at The Barbican

Visit London - but only if you are Gay

Visiting the "Battle of Britain" Underground Bunker

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Small improvement to the Events Guide

The Bubble with David Mitchell

Search engine spam

BBC News website crashed

Science programming on Television

The LAST bag of Woolworths Pic n Mix

Railway sleepers to be made from plastic bottles

English Tea and a Farmers Market

Where is this?

A new Rubik's Cube

Controlling page priorities in search engines

The Ig Nobel Awards - Coming to London

The Trial of the Pyx

Starfleet to be released on DVD - at last

No to the Rotherhithe-Canary Wharf Bridge

The Accending Room*

Watching the A1 Tornado Steam Train arrive at King's Cross

Great Snow Storm of 2009 to be made into a movie

The A1 Tornado Steam Train Arrives in London

It's illegal to use a slide on the snow

Watching the Ceremony of the Keys

Tube Station sponsorship could be valuable

Consequences of the "Great Snow Crisis"

Union Jack flying upside down during Anglo-Sino summit

A walk through the (closed) Monsal Trail tunnels

Camden closes its parks on "snow day"

Snow photos

Get the latest weather, every half hour on BBC News

January 2009

Google thinks every website could harm your computer

The Gurkhas are coming! The Gurkhas are coming!

My new moto in life

Charity tax deductions - and shopping at Ikea.

How to win friends and influence people

How to make waiting for a bus less tedious

An iceberg on the River Thames

The Horrid Murder of His Majestie, King Charles I

Atomic interferometer could end the need for GPS satellites

Drinking Tea: Talking about Tea

Scottish Bank Notes in England

Newspaper headlines the morning after the Inauguration

Bungee Jumping Off Big Ben

You need to write to your MP - Today!

House of Commons "too white, straight and male"

Copyright theft tracker gets hacked

Bored at work?

A gallery of Political Cartoons

Scientist Action Figures

Steam Trains and Road Crossings

London's Tube After Midnight

100,000!

First Day of the Woolwich DLR

President Elect Obama at Madame Tussauds

Foggy London

I'm not avoiding work - I'm undertaking stress therapy

Morris Dancing "facing extinction"

London's Met Police running adverts on Google

Hovercraft on the Thames

December 2008

See the Space Station in the morning

Laptops banned in coffee shops?

Abandoned London

Watch a Satellite Launch Live

HIGNFY

The animaleidoscope

Post Offices and Peter Mandelson

Last minute tickets

Cloning an Ice-Age Mammoth

Christmas Music

Weird online advertising

You may very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment

Steam trains in London this weekend

Clear sky at night - Observers delight

Two talks on two nights

Quiz the Tube Managers

Tour of The Mansion House

Back to Barts

November 2008

More on the Waterloo & Whitehall Railway

The Mummy - surrounded by Mummies

Bloggers Briefing with London Transport

Democratic Citizens or Cogs in the Machine

Changes to the Events Calendar

Sloane, Chocolate and Wine

NATO to close down over Christmas

In Conversation with Cherie Blair

Mansion House to start public tours

Why do companies take 5 days to reply to emails?

Learn the Haka

Visiting a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Aircraft over London at night

Visiting Big Ben

UK changes its stance on Tibetan Independence

India to get a monorail service

Changing the sales message for Green Products

Remembrance Sunday

Moving the blog to a new web host

Gin Tasting in the Foundling Museum

The US election and Proposition 8

The Maldives is a democracy - at last

River fortifications in Elizabeathan times

The carrier bags are killing M&S

Warning Messages on London Transport

Poppy Appeal

Launching a London Events Guide

October 2008

Breaking personal ethics

Have I Got News for You

The Village inside a Military Firing Range

459 Years since the Norfolk Rebellion

Unboxing a Microwave Oven

The winter fuel allowance

New recycling bins in the City of London

Blog design changes

Another Crossrail lecture

Gin tasting event in a museum

The end of an era on the railways

Free B&W movies on the big screen

The Dollis Brook Viaduct

Poster exhibition at the Transport Museum

Not Flash, Just Gordon

WW2 tunnels under London to be sold off

Tube Roundel - Scavenger Hunt

The Cathedral Express Steam Train

Centre Point Tower (London Open House)

Lord Mandy announces minsterial jobs

I think I just hit the limits on tube geek sadness

Terrorism as a tourist attraction

The myth about Food Miles

September 2008

Fenton House Apple Day

London's real Diagon Alley

Monumental Buidings in London

Auditory Processing Disorder

Polyclinics "undermine patient trust"

Beefeater Gin Tour (London Open House)

London Open House - Day 1

Lunchtime lectures at The Royal Society

Ninja Cat moves without moving

Recession - what recession?

Devon threatened by a Hurricane?

Tour of Kingston Crown Court

A tour of Aldwych Station on the London Underground

How to "lock" the default search in the Chrome browser

August 2008

Chess board on Textile

Quote of the day

Physician, heal thyself

Shepherd's Bush station moved - a lot

Iraqi Asylum Seekers in the UK

Northala Fields

Heinz Mulligatawny Soup

The last wooden escalator

St Michael's Church by Covent Garden

Personal information and high street retailers

Transport developments in London

Battersea Power Station Tours - Extended

Google thinks the Labour Party is harmful

Are you being spied on by your kids?

Back in Germany

Handwriting

Candy floss, candy floss, candy floss

July 2008

The Picnic

The London Library

Chav-Gulls

Seattle Memorabilia

I am in Germany - apparently

Beer tastings

Government contracts reserved for "union friendly" companies

Stella Artois airship over London

Polo

Sick idiots drown cat in The Thames

Duckspeak

Of Polonium and the death of Alexander Litvinenko

The City Pride - redevelopment

Hungover

The pigeons are not happy

Tunnel under the Thames at Battersea

The hottest temperature recorded on earth?

June 2008

Another 1938 train outing

The Bank of England

The original passenger railway

Too many security cameras - or too much hype?

Future Living in East London - an exhibition

Apple is a non-nuclear company

Please think of the environment before printing

Train announcements

Firefox 3 and that horid new url location bar

James Bond - the book covers

Battersea Power Station

Cart Marking

The wrong ladder

An outdoor drinking ban in Soho?

the hospital.

Two stories...

Dr Who and the Mayor of London

Hide - it's "apple day"

Museum of London

Events update

Signs of the times

Quote of the week

May 2008

Treasures of the English Church

Of Starbucks, T-Mobile and former work colleagues

Bank of England - open day

Early Experiments in Computer Animation

The Honourable Artillery Company

Brains is a dancer

Cruise Liners on the Thames

The urban nightlife - a lecture

Hearing test

The science of beer - a lecture

Should Madam Tussauds make a waxwork of Gordon Brown?

150 Years of Watford Station

Have I Got News For You

April 2008

International London

Gordon's Alive?

HMS Ocelot

Getting into private homes to see private "bits of heritage"

Lecture tonight

Want to sponsor a tube station?

A Trip on a 70 Year Old Tube Train

Strange smells in London

Does Starbucks Love Paul McCartney?

Sub-Brit Lecture at the Building Centre

The annual lock-down

The Museum of eww, urgh and yeuk!

100 years of an Underground Tunnel in New York

The Kirkaldy Testing Museum

Southwark Tube Station

Domesticating Electricity - a lunchtime lecture

The Olympic flame going past my flat

Photos at the Red Arrows flypast

March 2008

Red Arrows flypast over London

Greathead shield at Bank Station

Monumental buildings that never were

Ludgate Hill Viaduct in 1896

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year?

The world's largest TBM

Campaign to put Parliamentary Bills online

My caffine level for today

A tour of Underground Greenwich

Greenland and Global Warming

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London Open City - An Exhibition

The Post Office Robot Railway

Carbon buckyballs - and Superconductivity

Banking Crisis

MI5 wants access to your Oyster Card records

Flickr and Orwell's 1984

Postage stamps

Bank card fraud

The Ale Connor

Are Escalators Becoming More Dangerous?

Computer Screen Resolutions and Democracy

New DLR trains at West India Quay

The Terracotta Army

Dishwasher Spam

Cooling the London Underground

I promize not to disprespect da flag, innit

Hacking the Oyster Card

London's First International Airport

This is not just a high tide...

London Transport Museum - Acton Depot

Exhibition on Radio and Mobile Communications in London this weekend

Now they can paint solar panels on to buildings

Transport for London excel in stupidity this weekend

Don't go shopping in Rockhampton, Australia

Crossrail lecture at The Building Centre

The British flag flying on the moon

Flood barriers at Waterloo Station

Sheeps Wool from the Falklands Islands

450 years of Gloriana

Tours of Somerset House

February 2008

Oedipal Mothering Sunday

One hundred and fourty years of London Underground complaints

The woman who could sell Time

Kirk Douglas in flowing silk

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

750th Anniversary of the Provisions of Oxford

Exploring Beckton

Lectures and exhibition on London's Hidden Infrastructure

More hidden tunnels under London

Future moon exploration funded by PPP

An old news article about the Central Line Underground Railway

Burying Bad News?

William Hague on the EU Presidency

Marylebone Passage - of religion, printers and workhouses

The Church of St Charles Borromeo

An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale

Watch a Lunar Eclipse next week

London Eye - No Longer the Biggest

Should Ming Campbell move the USA?

Brilliant Metrolink?

Watching Buildings Explode

Old map of London's Docklands

Internet cafes - the once and future king?

David Davis and the Rhodesia Solution

Le Morte d'Flying Duck

Scotch's Lifetime Guarantee - ReRecord, not fade away!

A380 starts regular flights to Heathrow

January 2008

Evelyn's Yard

Ye' know?

Trade shows and public relations agencies

Even a coffee shop?

The cost of security is a loss of privacy

St Etheldreda's Church

Over half million stranded at China train station

A drinking fountain on Holborn Viaduct

Going back to the Roman Baths

A Bus May Land on My Head

British Rail and the Flying Saucer

Death and Hunger classified as "fun stuff"

More woes for Ken Livingstone

Wednesday Whinges

Gordon Brown does the Timewarp

Why are people panicking about the Oscars?

My Kiva micro-loan: A Repayment

Of Carrots, World War 2 and School Dinners

London Eye - Traffic Lights

The Royal Courts of Justice

The Anzob Tunnel

An Egyptian God pays a visit to my flat

Wednesday Whinges

Early Electricity Supplies in London

London's Riverside Amenities - An Exhibition

Lunchtime Lectures - The Return of Syphilis

The Scientologists are Recruiting

Of ancient paths, umbrellas and Chinese restaurants

Temple Open Weekend - Visit the home of the Da Vinci Code

Gizmodo-gate

Hunt the Hain

The world's second oldest underground railway?

Hacking the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The lunatic inside Starbucks

Of Roman Baths, Body Snatchers and Australian Convicts

December 2007

Starbucks runs out of cups

Amsterdam Subway Done With Mirrors

Humanity and the Geological Record

Happy Birthday to the City & South London Railway

Sleeping with the ghosts under London Bridge

Goodbye Kings Cross Thameslink...

Today, I became a micro-lender

I hate being ill

Happy (or is that Merry?) PLGA Week!

A morning at Heathrow Terminal 5

November 2007

The World's Oldest Clock Museum

Greenwich goes Advent Crazy

100th Anniversary of the Ice Skating Disaster

The One Million Pound Note

Does Digg think I am going bald?

HMS Westminster & Tower Bridge - A photo opportunity

Hangmans Gallows on the River Thames

Have a Very Merry Swissmas

I'm reading a lot more now

Oh Nos - Floods in the UK

Seagulls following a boat

Place or Plonk?

Watching Open Heart Surgery - Live

October 2007

All Saint's Church - Margaret Street, London

Gas Lighting in London

The tale of London's attempt to build an "Eiffel Tower"

The original "London Eye"

Twists in smoking history on trains

Broadband Back!

A bar and piazza outside my flat?

Back in Starbucks

If Tunguska occurred over a major city

The UK's oldest newspaper gets a web relaunch

Friday wanderings

New residents on the balcony

Get a "free" trip on the Eurostar

How the Bakerloo Line created a Water Jet in the Thames

Have I Got News for You

Docklands in the Fog

Weekend goodness

Smoking ban and screaming babies

Having babies and carbon offsetting

Lonbai?

Troops recall fuels election fever

Anubis on the Thames

September 2007

St Margaret's Church - Lee, London

Sky News to rely on Digg/Reddit etc for news

Pedestrianising Oxford Street

Heathrow North - a Radical Suggestion

London Open House Weekend

Thames Barrier

BOGOF's and impulse shopping

Horse Jousting at the Tower of London

August 2007

Anticipation

Tube bag

New photos

Weird press releases

Dishwasher tablets

That was unpleasent

Waterloo and Whitehall Pneumatic Railway

Bring back the Penny Black

July 2007

Lightning over London

June 2007

A wander around the London 2012 site

Moved server

The enviromental impact of instruction manuals

Poor quality sales message

Free gym makeover?

Dear Digg...

London art project

May 2007

UK news websites get more traffic from "foreigners"

Ding dong! Avon calling...

Find Madeline website is spamming Google

Will posterity read your emails?

April 2007

Iran tenders for two nuclear power plants

Trapped by the London Marathon

Security Certificate failure at LloydsTSB online banking

The Independent Newspaper

Matt Cutts - hacked?

March 2007

Tower Bridge "Salutes" Slavery Ship

Amazon Launches "Contextual" Ad Platform

Tall Sailing Ship in London!

Someone doesn't like the Sugababes

Clever Spam - or is it?

Waterloo & Whitehall Pneumatic railway

Annual Returns

Embarrassing Christmas Presents

Bored!

Walk across Ribblehead Viaduct

February 2007

The Waterloo and Whitehall Pneumatic Railway

Don't forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon Day!

The Hole in The Wall

It takes a month to remove me from a mailing list?

Ribblehead Viaduct

Are we running out of space on the internet

Going Underneath the Albert Memorial

January 2007

SPF records and zombie PC's

Right click - then right click again

A simple and cheap way to wipe out the Heroin trade

No coffee

December 2006

Attacking an email database

I wish my Google income was like this all day

'Paid-for' email set to launch in the UK

Oddities over at Google News

When a weblink is not a weblink

The iPod Generation?

Google's silent monopoly

SSL Certificates - update

Bath, Bristol and Concorde

Email reputation and SSL Certificates

November 2006

Has the Royal Mail taken over the USA Embassy

US Visa

Multi-multi-multi tasking

Petition to ban strike on London Underground

Will we face an advertising backlash?

At last - a sensible use for The Bible

Antique Maps on Google Earth

Flying Spaghetti Monster spotted in Germany

When smilies go wrong

Is there a national shortage of paper tissues

CCTV's cause UK's Obesity epidemic

WWII archive photos go online

A "silent" passenger plane

Spiffy photo

New anti-spam thingy

Samsung's new mobile phone concept?

Website Explains How To Make A Nuclear Bomb

Illness

US political ads

It is now officially "Christmas"

Witches are not grisly old hags...

October 2006

Speeding up websites

Engrossing magazine = missed train stop

The OXO cube diet

The clocks go back

I think I just fell in love

Spiffy Pic

The Irish are vampires

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