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More delays for Beam Park station - no decision until later this year
Tickets Alert: Lunches in London's Livery Halls
Hammersmith Bridge could re-open next summer
Unique piece of buried treasure goes on display at the V&A
Major upgrade planned for Lewisham railway station
The memorial stone outside George Lansbury House
Catch a steam train in East London on Saturday
London Underground breaks through its new Bank tube station entrance
Salvador Dalí's champagne lamps go on display
London Underground's glowing tube roundel picks up an award
London's Museum of Funeral History
Help re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
London's Alleys: Sugar Bakers Court, EC3
Unbuilt London: A Garden Bridge across the Thames
Reigate Caves open days announced
Charing Cross Station could be extended across the Thames
Unbuilt London: The embankment railway
Suggestions for things to do outside London in April
Weekly round-up of London's railway transport news
Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race tickets go on sale
The dead bodies service from King's Cross railway station
The Night the IgNobel Awards Came to London
Scientific collectables at Christie's
The whole archive
March 2024
More delays for Beam Park station - no decision until later this year
Harrow transport worker's art-inspired poetry at central London tube station
TfL seeking suppliers for Bakerloo line overhaul
Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and the gardens
London's Alleys: Padbury Court, E2
British Museum retakes crown for the UK's most visited attraction
Euston station will be closed over the Easter weekend
Recycling boost for LNER's train cleaners
Tickets Alert: Pokemon Pop-Up coming to London
Identities of next two Trafalgar Square artworks confirmed
Tickets Alert: Chevening House gardens open day
Tickets Alert: The Household Division's Beating Retreat
TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
London Mithraeum tops half million visitors since it opened
A visit to St Stephen's Church, Hounslow
Tickets Alert: Boat trip through a canal tunnel under Islington
From Dangleways to Driverless Pods: The rejected Thamesmead DLR extensions
Train Sim World adds London Overground expansion with Goblin "Easter Egg"
Rare copy of a Beck-inspired tube map - for Australia
Unleash your inner child at 'Art of the Brick' LEGO exhibition
Initial funding for Elephant & Castle railway station upgrade
Tickets Alert: Perivale Wood’s 2024 bluebells open days
Hamilton tickets at London's Victoria Palace Theatre now on sale up to April 2025
Look out for this retro British Rail inspired train makeover
A feast of fabric at the Barbican
Crowdfunding campaign to save HQS Wellington
Bronze baby animals filling a corner of Paternoster Square
Waterloo station set for huge "London Bridge style" upgrade
London's Alleys: Red Cow Yard, EC1
Tate Britain's entrance set for nature's revival with a new wildlife-filled garden
National Theatre planning £125 million upgrade for its 50 year old building
St Pancras station planning for more international passengers
Les Misérables releases tickets up to April 2025
Ballot to win King Charles III's first release banknotes
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of the National Archives
Another viewing tower for London - this time in Greenwich
London Transport Museum exhibition bridges 1940s London and 2020s Kyiv
BRIO releases an official London Underground toy train
Early hours visits to see the Natural History Museum's dinosaurs
Climb up Crane Park's "Shot Tower"
From tracks to trees: TfL's vision for a greener and wildlife-friendly London
Intercity 125 train returning to London for one day
Friday and Saturday lates at the Barbican Conservatory
Closing the Gap as Cycleway 4 connects Greenwich to London Bridge
London's Pocket Parks: St Johns' Cloister Garden, EC1
Rossetti’s “very best picture” returns to City of London’s art gallery
Chiswick House & Gardens to develop underused historic areas into a community hub
A helicopter and boats to perform a rare ceremony at the Tower of London
London Zoo's new reptiles house is about to open
Flash sale on Eurostar with tickets for £35 each way
Battersea's tube station is about to get a second entrance
Southeastern upgrades south London depot to improve train cleaning facilities
Cheaper entry to Dennis Severs House for locals and young people
Tickets Alert: Ballot opens to attend the Trooping the Colour 2024
Ten-week closure of the Blackheath to Charlton railway tunnel
London's Alleys: Coach House Yard, NW3
More dates announced to walk through the Mail Rail tunnels
Sale on tickets for "My First Ballet: Swan Lake"
David Bowie photos from a 1992 studio session go on display
Ten London exhibitions to visit in March 2024
The Royal Mews collection of horse-drawn carriages has reopened today
TfL's off-peak "Fares Friday" trial starts next Friday
February 2024
The King's Gallery introduces a £1 ticket as it changes its name
Design Museum buys rare 'Number 1 Barbie' for its Barbieverse exhibition
London's Pocket Parks: Wick Green, E9
London Overground strike CANCELLED
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Beckton gasworks
Michelangelo sketch and its painting reunited at the British Museum for the first time in 400 years
Tube's Got Talent: Buskers are auditioning for spaces on the London Underground
New DLR trains to be delayed by a few months
Elysian Arcs -- Iridescent arches and bubbles returns to the City of London
Visit the Italian Church in London
HS2 -- UK's largest railway tunnel boring machine completes 10-mile dig under the Chilterns
Tickets Alert: Tweed Run is back for genteel cycling around London
See the new King Charles III banknotes at the Bank of England museum
Network Rail pledges £140 million overhaul for troubled Elizabeth line west of Paddington
From Foaming Troughs to Flying Jellyfish: Exploring Organic Inspirations at the Hayward Gallery
TfL looking at Elizabeth line extensions to Staines and Ebbsfleet
London Overground train makes rare diversion to London Bridge station
From Revisionism to Resonance: Exploring the black figure in contemporary art
Free exhibition showcasing lost Victorian London opens this spring
HS2 launches third giant tunnelling machine under west London
Unlocking the Past: TfL releases over 400 digitized maps and more on Google Arts & Culture
Name your very own train on the Marston Vale line
London's Alleys: Miniver Place, EC4
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Royal Court Theatre
Free and discounted entry to London venues for National Lottery week
Charles Darwin's unread copy of Marx's Das Kapital restored for display
Catch a Routemaster bus to the Crossness pumping station
Burtynsky industrial photos to fill the Outernet screens
Public invited to give feedback on HS2’s Euston Portal headhouse design
Whimsical Warnings: The Royal Parks asks Sir Quentin Blake to help improve park etiquette
Covent Garden's market trader's plaque
London’s 2024 ceremonial gun salutes
Bakerloo Line Extension: Report urges swift action on building the railway
The Epping Signalling Museum reopens next week
BT Tower is to be turned into a HOTEL
TfL announces half-price travel for vulnerable young adults leaving care services
London's Pocket Parks: St Thomas's Square, E9
From Rastafari Squats to Cardboard City: London's working class histories get funding boost
Yoko Ono's avant-garde journey: A dive into experimental art at Tate Modern
Step-free access work to resume at Northolt tube station
Docklands history exhibition in the local library
Tickets Alert: Visit the Chatley Heath semaphore tower
V&A Museum's urgent fundraiser to save rare ivory carving from overseas sale
Printworks could reopen in 2026 after developers propose new cultural venue
Calls for more Met line trains between Watford and Rickmansworth
Tickets Alert: Climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College's Dome
London's new battery train sets UK distance record
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Banqueting House in Whitehall
Strike ballot by London Underground station staff
Four companies shortlisted to operate the Elizabeth line
Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth shortlist unveiled
Feathers, Flight, and Fascination: The Natural History Museum reveals the secrets of avian evolution
London's Alleys: Angel Alley, E1
Museum of Brands partners with innocent drinks to inspire future brand builders
Tickets Alert: Zippos Circus is back in town
Improvements for Holborn pedestrian spaces shown off by Camden Council
TfL earned £830,000 from Samsung's circular tube map adverts
Secrets of the London Underground is returning for a fourth series
London Overground strike called off
Elizabeth line nominated for top architectural award
From fields to factories: Burtynsky's haunting exploration of human industry at the Saatchi Gallery
Tickets Alert: Evening tours of the Houses of Parliament
Tickets Alert: Attend the Quadrennial Dunmow Flitch Trials
No more orange - new tube map shows the renamed London Overground lines
A visit to the Crystal Palace Museum
Antiques Roadshow filming in west London
Train fares for just £1 on the Marston Vale Line
New tunnel to go under the Thames at Tilbury and Gravesend
Tate Modern’s next monumental Turbine Hall artwork will be by Mire Lee
The glittering Fitzrovia Chapel is becoming easier to visit
Strike on the London Overground next week
Young people set to shape the future of London’s transport network
50 years of Hackney life in a photography exhibition
You can see a life-size Megalosaurus dinosaur in central London this month
Hidden parts of Holborn tube station to open to the public
First glimpse at Paddington station's new Bakerloo line entrance
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Albert Memorial's hidden undercroft
The Grant Museum has reopened and is as wonderful as before
Majority of London's new Piccadilly line trains will be built in Yorkshire
London's Alleys: Streatley Place, NW3
London's gas lamps to shine on as Historic England protects Covent Garden lights
New museum to show archaeology from the Abbey of St Clare
Nearly 20,000 people prosecuted for fare evasion on London's transport
Tickets Alert: Tours of the British Museum’s round reading room
Freddie Mercury's portraits of Jimi Hendrix go on display
Former District line tube train to start GWR battery-train trials in west London
New Elizabeth line artwork celebrates Soho's diversity
Hammersmith Bridge will reopen to cyclists next week
Beyond Gladiators: British Museum sheds light on Roman life through the eyes of a homesick soldier
Crystal Palace's radio control racing track under threat of closure
Colindale tube station to close for 7 months for major rebuilding works
HS2 opens new road over Copthall Green tunnel in west London
Government unable to explain how a cut-back HS2 will run a railway
The myths of Anne Boleyn's Well, Carshalton
Saxon London remains found under the National Gallery
Westminster Abbey exhibition showcases Notre-Dame de Paris' past, present, and future
Barbican's brutalist building about to be covered in a giant sheet of purple fabric
TfL warning about a 5-day closure of the Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport
A new "Low Line" proposed between Battersea and Waterloo
Tickets Alert: Tours of Harrow School for Boys
Consultation starts on DLR's Thamesmead extension
Rare Roman London funeral remains discovered beneath Holborn Viaduct
Londons Alleys: Anchor Yard, EC1
Bells that Ring Themselves: Lavish clocks return to London in Forbidden City exhibition
Improving step-free access at tube stations with miniature ramps
Half price tickets to the King and I musical
British Museum to put recovered stolen gems on display
Five tube stations now have new circular tube maps
Ten London exhibitions to visit in February 2024
500th anniversary of the Great Flood of London
January 2024
Former Crossrail building site earmarked for 1,500 new homes
Week long closure of South London railways is cancelled
Turning Regent Street into a "green link" between Regent's and St James Parks
Cycle hiring around Watford expands to neighbouring councils
Exhibition shows off historical documents from Billingsgate fish market
Tickets Alert: Tours of Parliament's Speaker’s House
London Overground trains will be calling at London Bridge on Easter Sunday
Heathrow Airport's driverless shuttle pods get a colourful makeover
Rediscovered lost masterpiece by Guercino going on display in Waddesdon Manor exhibition
Tickets Alert: Regular tours of the Union Chapel will resume in March
London Overground staff set for strikes in February and March
Visit the abandoned remains of Spencer Road Halt railway station
Imber Bus day is confirmed for this August
Historic waiting room restored at Bruce Grove rail station
Platform shelter improvements for Eltham station
Two Temple Place's free exhibition sheds light on the artistry of glass
Newly discovered "Kipper Tie" goes on display in the Museum of London Docklands
London's Alleys: Rose and Crown Court, EC2
TfL to scrap peak fares on Fridays on tube and trains to boost ridership
Chelsea Flower Show tickets are on sale
New "drivers console" stickers are appearing on the DLR
King's Cross rail tunnels get improved phone coverage
National Theatre photography exhibition inside the National Theatre
Major upgrade of Pontoon Dock DLR station being planned
Twilight tours of the Tower of London
Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car exhibition
New exhibition to show off the first King Charles III banknotes
Your home hobby could be part of a London exhibition
From St. Mary's to St. Paul's at Clapham's 200-year-old church
V&A exhibition displays rarely seen Lucian Freud etchings
Pay a visit to the factory where Remembrance Poppies are made
Half price entry to Hampton Court Palace at the moment
Former Crossrail TBM digs new HS2 tunnel at Old Oak Common
Croydon's derelict water tower
Step-free access coming to Leatherhead station
No Elizabeth line trains east of Stratford each weekend throughout February
Tickets Alert: Tours of Moor Park Mansion
V&A's sold out Chanel exhibition gets 2-week extension with more tickets on sale
Tackling the Tube's Roar: TfL's battle against tube tunnel noise
TfL's Lost Property Office donates unclaimed baby buggies to childrens charity
LNER train drivers call off threatened five-days of rail strikes
Frozen the Musical to close in September 2024
Tickets Alert: Tours of Longford Castle, near Salisbury
Enfield Council outlines possible rail station upgrades
The Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening after a refurbishment
TfL adding 1,400 more e-bikes to hire and the day pass is coming back
London's Alleys: Cree Church Buildings, EC3
Half price sale on rail tickets starts next week
Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of Copped Hall
Single fares on London's transport frozen, but travelcards to rise
Watch the English Civil War Society marching along the Mall
LNER train drivers to strike for five days in February
Dinosaurs are coming to east London for Easter
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Sandhurst military academy
Egg Whisk art outside Moorgate tube station
Barons Court tube station is about to go green
HS2 begins year-long, half-kilometre viaduct deck slide
Charles Holden exhibition offers a glimpse into the evolution of Senate House
London's Pocket Parks: The Hartley Garden, SE1
See early examples of computer art at the V&A Museum
Kenley rail station trialling short-term use of its station car park
Memories in Monochrome: Barbican celebrates the impact of Two-Tone
LNER offers new simpler tickets with semi-flexible train times
Delayed Beam Park station: Viability report expected this spring
Visit the fields of tulips at Tullys Farm this Spring
More strikes announced on the national railways
Cycling improvements planned for Woolwich town centre
London's Alleys: Old Brewery Mews, NW3
See objects from the TfL archives in the Cable Car
Woolwich Elizabeth line station to test new escalator crowding ideas
Day trips from London: Visit the Tudor mansion at Dorney Court
Flash sale on tickets to see Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre
Look out for fake "driving the train" steering wheels on DLR trains
Have your photo taken in front of the 10 Downing Street door from The Crown
There's a giant jellyfish floating around the Outernet
From Scarborough to Venice - Watercolours unveil Europe's varied landscapes
Visiting the Royal Academy of Music's museum
Rex London signs TfL branding deal for homewares and gifts
First solo UK exhibition of Italian designer Enzo Mari to open at the Design Museum
More dates for tours of Trinity House
The centenary of Natwest's first railway station bank
A list of the cruise ships visiting London in 2024
Spot the Danger Mouse Blue Plaque at Baker Street
London Underground portraits on show at the Barbican
Consultation puts forward North Acton tube station upgrade proposals
Doctor Who and the Bankside elephant parade
Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins exhibition extended to April
Booking opens for tours of buildings sites this March
Exploring Ainu Lives: London's Japan House chronicles the revival of a suppressed culture
London's Alleys: White Horse Yard, EC2
London tube strikes cancelled at last minute
Third off tickets to visit London Zoo during the tube strike
Euston Station - escalator closure sparks warning of queues to get onto the London Underground
Sale on tickets to the Tina Turner musical
East London is getting a "bus replacement rail service"
Upminster's Museum of Nostalgia to close for urgent restoration work
Battersea and Canary Wharf to both host free outdoor lighting festivals
Foreign embassy congestion charge debt to TfL tops £143 million
From chamber pots to commemorative busts: The eclectic world of Victorian pottery at the V&A
London's Public Art: There and Now, Westminster Magistrates' Court
A chance to run or cycle along Biggin Hill Airport's runway
The Linbury Prize - an exhibition of theatre stage design
London Underground strikes to cause severe disruption next week
TfL learning lessons from the Burberry Street station controversy
Tickets Alert: History tours of Wilton’s Music Hall
King's Cross station closed over the next two weekends
Set back for plans to improve London Bridge tube station entrance
Step back in time: Hever Castle unveils Boleyn apartment, a Tudor time capsule opening in March 2024
Arsenal and GTR's art project creating a mural for Finsbury Park station
London's Public Art: The Restless Course
December 2023
Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"
Half price tickets to the King and I musical
Ten free London exhibitions to visit in January 2024
New entrance proposed for Brockley rail station
Young V&A's Manga exhibition feels rather thin
Elizabeth line to run all overnight on New Year's Eve
More details revealed about plans to open the Holborn tunnels to the public
Tickets Alert: Pay What You Want to visit the Golden Hinde replica ship
Northern line set for partial closure in April 2024
One Wi-Fi to rule them all and across London bind them
London's Pocket Parks: Claremont Park, NW2
Photos from Smithfield meat market's Christmas sale
More of the new Piccadilly line trains could be built in the UK
Road outside Bond Street's Elizabeth line entrance to be pedestrianised
Up to a third off tickets to Elf the Musical
Just two months to visit the Horniman's stuffed walrus
Tube strikes announced for early January
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Ally Pally's theatre
Dancing all the way to the bank: ABBA Voyage boosts London's economy by £320 million
From the Underground to under the tree: TfL donates unclaimed lost toys to children
London's largest escalator handrail holding signs?
See inside Brixton's unfinished Catholic Church
Bus strike in west London tomorrow (Thur) to Saturday
Last chance to see some of the Museum of the Home's rooms before they close
HS2's west London tunnel segments start arriving by rail from Hartlepool
Duke of Wellington's uniforms to go on display for the first time in new Apsley House exhibition
London's Pocket Parks: Streatham Green, SW16
Elizabeth line: Central stations now boasting 4G phone coverage
Increased convenience at London Bridge station with more toilets being added
British Museum secures £50 million sponsorship deal with BP
Tickets Alert: Visit the Diamond Light Source - the UK’s largest particle accelerator
Colindale and Leyton tube stations set for £43.1 million step-free upgrades
Tim Dunn hosts a 4-part podcast to celebrate the London Underground's 160th anniversary
Eurostar releases tickets for EURO 2024
TfL's testing an illuminating approach to increasing DLR fare payments
Go-Ahead marks a decade of electric buses in south London
Step-free access completed at Streatham railway station
Tickets Alert: See the Brent Reservoir drained of water
TfL faces financial crunch as Government leaves £250 million hole in maintenance budget
London's Alleys: Well Court, EC4
Exclusive prices on Stranger Things: The First Shadow tickets
Revamped Central line trains with the new moquette and upgrades
Watch the Space Station fly over London on Christmas morning
The Lizzie line effect - Liverpool Street overtakes Waterloo as Britain's busiest station
Paddington's Walking Man and Standing Man
Tickets Alert: London Open Gardens 2024
Shortlands station set to get step-free access with new lifts and footbridge
London's museum Christmas opening hours
Proposals for three new Thames ferry crossings in East London
The International Memorial to Seafarers on the Albert Embankment
South Kensington station redevelopment to go ahead after Planning Inspector overturns council block
Plans shown off to redevelop the old Museum of London
Jewish Museum London secures funding for pop-up services and educational outreach
Liverpool Street station to replace food kiosks with more ticket barriers
London's Pocket Parks: Cricklewood Millennium Green, NW2
20 photos from the opening of Brent Cross West station
Peckham Rye station's £40 million upgrade gets planning approval
New tube map and art cover released by TfL
London's Alleys: Christchurch Passage, NW3
Christmas themed tours of Shakespeare's Globe theatre
Stansted Express resumes trains every 15 minutes throughout the day
Flash sale on tickets to see The Mousetrap from £20 per seat
Take a preview of Brent Cross West station ahead of Sunday's opening
Bank of England is giving away Christmas tree baubles filled with shredded banknotes
Denmark Hill station's derelict station master's house has been restored
The Queen’s Gallery next to Buckingham Palace is to become The King’s Gallery
Former apprentice returns to complete the London Museum's new copper clad roof
London Underground's mobile coverage adds more of the Northern and Central lines
Walthamstow's Vestry House Museum is to close for two years
Smithfield’s amazing Christmas meat auction is back for 2023
New cycling and pedestrian bridge to cross the River Lea
London's Pocket Parks: Pearson Square, W1
The Radiant Resurrection: National Gallery shines light on Pesellino's Renaissance masterpieces
From sheet music to rock icons: New book explores Denmark Street's musical evolution
Brent Cross West railway station opens this coming Sunday
Highgate Cemetery will be open to visit between Christmas and New Year
Reopening Tilbury Riverside railway station's booking hall three decades after it closed
Tube Mapper's 2024 calendar for London's transport fans
Helicopter dangling spinning blades to reduce leaves on the railway
See original drawings from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
London's Alleys: Tavistock Court, WC2
Discounts on tickets to The Snowman musical
Tickets Alert: Blue Man Group are returning to London
Ten London exhibitions to visit in December 2023
Pedestrian road crossing lights now include wheelchair symbols
November 2023
Pay a winter visit to Spencer House
London Underground tops 4 million journeys in a single day
Kensington's Carmelite church, a bright interior within a fortress appearance
RMT members accept pay deal to suspend rail strikes
Observances of the Elizabeth line problems this morning
Ranjani Shettar's floating sculptures grace London's second-largest conservatory
Boosting smartphone signal strength around King's Cross station
Grant awarded to Alexandra Palace to help restore the building
Recline and relax on Sigmund Freud's consulting couch
Northern City Line starts using new signals in passenger service
London's only public statue of King Henry VIII restored to remove decades of pollution
A week of rail strikes to start this Saturday
Revised plans shown off for London's future tallest skyscraper
First locations unveiled for electric car fast-charging hubs across London
London Pocket Parks: Mirabelle Gardens, E20
More tickets released for the V&A's sold-out Chanel exhibition
Saatchi Gallery's retrospective showcases Christo's monumental wrappings and architectural marvels
Tickets Alert: Guided tours of the Old Bailey
Kensington council rejects solution for Jewish sect's tube travel ban
A large art exhibition is coming to Waterloo station
London's Alleys: Golden Yard, NW3
Another attempt to put Concorde next to the London Eye?
Trafalgar Square's Christmas Tree is on its way to London
The full guide to London's museum memberships as Christmas presents
Property development offering upgrades at Neasden tube station
HS2 reaches halfway mark in tunnelling crucial side passages under the Chilterns
Tickets Alert: The Sims 4 For Rent pop-up in central London
Crossing ecclesiastical borders: Westminster Abbey is to host Notre Dame de Paris exhibition
The Elizabeth line has its busiest month yet
London's Churches: All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames
Government offers £23 million for Rapid-Bus link connecting Woolwich to Thamesmead
Early Warning - Paddington station will be closed over Christmas
Lost in Space: NASA astronaut's dropped tool bag flying over London - how to catch a glimpse
London's Pocket Parks: Pearl and Mizanur's Memorial Garden, E1
Transport leaders warn Elizabeth line train order delays will cost jobs
Tickets Alert: An afternoon with the 1960s world of ITC
Win a load of special railway tours and experiences
Unearthing Inequality: Black Women were more likely to die during London's great plagues
Cool commutes ahead: Take a look inside the Piccadilly line's new air conditioned trains
Sphere and Loathing in Stratford - Mayor rejects plans for a giant glowing globe
HS2 hands over new Euston Skills Centre to Camden Council
Richmond station's art deco heritage is being restored
This weekend is "Museum Shop Sunday"
London's Alleys: John Milton Passage, EC4
A week of strikes on the railways in December
Pollock's Toy Museum popping up in Leadenhall Market
No Heathrow mainline trains next weekend and partial closure of the Elizabeth line
There’s a field of glowing roses in Central London
Ink and Friendship: Exploring the Dickens-Collins connection at the Charles Dickens Museum
Look out on the Central line -- an upgraded train has started final tests
Finally seeing inside Windsor's Clewer Church
TfL's financial performance triggers ratings upgrade but warnings about future transport upgrades
Tickets Alert: Cinema poster pop-up inside a 1920s future cinema
Tickets Alert: Walk through the Thames railway tunnel
Beyond Dickensian myths: St Pancras workhouse's early history revealed in archaeological dig
A Duo of Deans: Building HS2's two Wendover railway viaducts
Sit on some giant Yeti feet in Covent Garden
Major railway upgrades to alter Southeastern and London Overground services this Christmas
Big discounts on London theatre tickets
London's Pocket Parks: Charles Square, N1
Call for entries to the National Portrait Gallery’s longstanding painting competition
Holbein's secret strokes: Exhibition shows rarely seen sketches of the Tudor Court
Brent Cross West - London's newest railway station opens on 10th December
London's Alleys: Well Passage, NW3
Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out tickets now available from £10
Hampstead Observatory is reopening to the public
Finsbury Circus Gardens are to close for a year
Marston Vale Line: Partial train services to resume on Monday 20th November
RMT secures mandate for more tube strikes on the London Underground
Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust’s heritage homes
Elizabeth line has carried 250 million passenger journeys since it opened
London's Public Art: Mosaik, W1
It's the 50th anniversary of the Beaujolais Nouveau Race
Gatwick Airport railway station upgrade reducing delays on the Brighton Main Line
Train companies and RMT breakthrough in rail strikes dispute
Christmas jumpers from London's venues
Tickets Alert: Steam engines back in action at the London Museum of Water and Steam
Strike action on the buses in west London for the next few weeks
There's been an overnight rehearsal for the Lord Mayor's Show
HS2's Colne Valley railway viaduct reaches construction halfway point
London's Pocket Parks: Abbey Gardens, E15
St Pancras station's Christmas tree is a spiralling tower of books
Garrison Chapel exhibition blends traditional art with baffling description
Eurostar Launches Early Sales of Tickets for Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics
Horizon 22 viewing gallery tickets are now being released daily
The surprising story of steam trains on the Central line
Google Street View is coming to London Underground stations
Musicians to be given busking pitches in Elizabeth line stations
City of London unveils its vision for 2030s skyscraper skyline
Hardly any trains out of King's Cross station on Sunday 3rd December
Rail industry must adapt to changing train travel patterns - survey
London's Alleys: Church Path, SW14
How many Beatles fans end up at the wrong Abbey Road?
You can now buy Elizabeth and Bakerloo line moquette ties
Plans for 2,500 new homes in Kensal Green go for planning approval
Kilburn Mews railway arches to be refurbished
Tickets Alert: A chance to climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College Dome
Redevelopment of Hackney Museum opens for public consultation
Renaissance meets Brixton: Jem Perucchini's 'Rebirth of a Nation' glows inside Brixton tube station
An unexpected discovery behind a Barbican sign
Jools Holland will be making London Underground station announcements tomorrow
Tickets Alert: Out of hours Titanosaur tours at the Natural History Museum
A new tube map celebrates the engineers who built London
Ten London exhibitions to visit in November 2023
HS2's Thame Valley viaduct - taking a look at a waterlogged construction site
October 2023
Improved step-free access planned for Liverpool Street station
A huge sale of Film and TV memorabilia
Government plans to close railway ticket offices hit the buffer
Georgian Glamour: Rediscovering the extravagant light displays of the past at Sir John Soane Museum
London's Pocket Parks: Fleet Valley Pocket Park, WC1
Strike on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) next week
Robbie Williams pop-up in Covent Garden this week
Tickets Alert: Visit the Fan Museum when it's lit by candles
Controversial plans push on for massive office block above Liverpool Street station
London's Alleys: Globe Yard, W1
Balfour Beatty awarded £43 million contract to upgrade London Underground's Piccadilly line
The lost brutal reviews of Charles Dickens's novels by his best friend Wilkie Collins
London's outdoor ice skating rinks for winter 2023-2024
Replica Aldgate East tube station spotted in Grimsby for Netflix filming
London's New Year's Eve fireworks tickets go on sale next week
Historic England creating an online map of the 'Ghost Signs' found on buildings
From a golden State Coach to an art bus: Highlights of the Lord Mayor's Show revealed
Lunches in the City of London’s livery halls
Skateboard's 70-year evolution unveiled at the Design Museum's new exhibition
New DLR trains on track, but depot expansion faces delays after contractor's collapse
Southeastern to introduce automated train inspection technology
Pump up the volume: The Science Museum explores music's impact on emotions
Tours of Feliks Topolski's railway arch artist studio and archive
London's Pocket Parks: The Stage Viaduct Garden, EC2
London's Day Travelcard saved from extinction: New deal secures its future
From protests to football to royalty: A century of news in pictures in this Canary Wharf exhibition
Emily and Anne get ready to dig HS2's Northolt Tunnel under west London
TfL considering London Overground extension to London Bridge
Online virtual tour of Liverpool Street rail station will help people travel with confidence
Hidden section of Roman Wall near St. Paul's Cathedral to open as a public museum
New video shows the nearly finished Brent Cross West station
Discounted tickets for under-30s to see Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
See BBC science fiction props from Doctor Who to Blake's 7 at the Gunnersbury Park Museum
New office development to include a free roof terrace overlooking the Tower of London
Disused building at Bricket Wood station opens as a new tea room
London's Alleys: Cockpit Yard, WC1
Look out for a swarm of flying drones over Greenwich and Alexandra Palace
c2c expanding London style contactless payments to all stations by year-end
Roman London's mausoleum and mosaics going on public display in Southwark
London's Superloop bus network set for Spring 2024 expansion: SL2 and SL3 routes confirmed
Behind the scenes tours for young theatre job seekers
Third of tube stations now using brighter lights that consume 60% less electricity
Tickets Alert: Handel Hendrix House to open late on Fridays
London Underground celebrates a decade of labyrinths with two new additions to the tube network
Bright lights meet dark arches: South Korean digital art illuminates Bankside railway arches
London Transport Museum's new exhibition unveils poster art's hidden history
Tickets Alert: Underground (1928 film) with live music
Illusionaries fills rooms with AI generated video animals
Inclusive Innovation: Chiltern Railways tests interactive BSL screens for deaf travellers
London's Pocket Parks: The Tannery, SE1
From meat market to museum - the London Museum's new Foundation Stone unveiled
Midweek commuter surge sees Elizabeth line have its busiest day yet
From elephant dung to avian splats: An unusual exhibition spotlights the world of animal poo
TfL left to pick up costs after government rejects inflation linked funding support
London's Alleys: Buckingham Arcade, WC2
Southeastern confirms full introduction of City Beam trains by December
Umbrellas on the move: TfL's Lost Property Office finds a permanent home in West Ham
An ancient law requires a bundle of straw to hang from the Millennium Bridge
Newham Council approves extra funds for Stratford station upgrade
Threads of History: Exhibition uncovers the Jewish contribution to London's fashion scene
Paddington Station first Network Rail station to offer a ‘stoma-friendly’ toilet
Two exhibitions look at the legacy of Shakespeare's First Folio
Tickets Alert: Spend Halloween inside a Mausoleum
The Elizabeth line has been testing new train departure displays
From sewage shaft to public plaza: Putney's newest public space opens
From fake tanks to bulletproof jumpers: Secrets of the spies revealed in an IWM exhibition
Google Maps partners with TfL to prioritize safer cycling routes in London
Exceptional visual arts exhibition inside a concrete basement
Fashion and Frustration: Design Museum's rebellious exhibition misses the mark
TfL rebrands its property division as Places for London
Frans Hals at the National Gallery: A deep dive into the world of moustaches, smiles, and lace
Shakespeare and War: Exhibition looks at how his plays were used for political propaganda
Modernism Beyond Metro-Land explores London's lesser-known Modernist marvels
Dennis Severs House offers cheap entry to young people
First Class 720 train enters passenger service on C2C service
Plans to open Holborn's cold war tunnels to the public shown off at a consultation
Tickets Alert: Backstage tours of the Royal Court Theatre
London's Alleys: St Michael's Alley, EC3
New South London tunnel completed with TBM breakthrough
From Stratford to Giza: A virtual reality experience transports you to ancient Egypt
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Proteus is visiting London for a week
Tickets Alert: Pewterers' Hall open day
Weekend engineering work to affect C2C railway services
Charles Henry Driver's decorative London Bridge railway arches to be restored
Book Review: London Railway Atlas - 6th Edition
From Decay to Display: Atmospheric Christo exhibition inside a derelict Spitalfields house
The Millennium "wobbly" Bridge is closing for three weeks of urgent repairs
HS2 will reach a scaled-back Euston station - but Northern expansion cancelled
Delayed but Expanded: Victoria station upgrade set for March 2024 completion
Moco Museum gets approval to open Marble Arch museum of modern art
London's Pocket Parks: Bernie Spain Gardens, SE1
Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon comes to Southwark Cathedral
From dollhouse to design icon: Design Museum's Barbie exhibition opens in 2024
Tube strikes this week are CANCELLED
London’s 2023 bonfire night firework displays
A tale of two stags: Tracing the origins of the Albert Gate's sculptures
Ten London exhibitions to visit in October 2023
Tickets Alert: Late opening at Westminster Abbey
From Freddy Mercury to Jake Gyllenhaal - Exhibition explores Levi's jeans link with LGBTQ+ culture
London's Alleys: Plumtree Court, EC4
September 2023
A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits
For a few weeks only: British Museum displays a fragile 1,500 year old Chinese scroll
RMT tube strike to cause severe disruption to the London Underground next week
UK's largest Christo and Jeanne-Claude retrospective coming to the Saatchi Gallery
Severe disruption to train services on Sat and Wed due to train strikes
TfL cycle hire network expands to South Clapham
St. Paul's Bow Common - Discovering one of the UK's best post-war churches
All aboard for Railway 200: A year of events to celebrate 200 years of rail travel
Charge Up and Ride On: TfL is adding USB chargers to Elizabeth line trains
The Wimbledon 2024 ticket ballot has opened
HS2's Transformation: Building more than just a High-Speed railway near Aylesbury
Free entry to National Trust properties this autumn
Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow's disused gasworks
LNER increases Sunday train services to cope with increased demand
Closed for 70 years, London's Cold War tunnels are to be opened to the public
Dare to Be Free: London's 1000th blue plaque unveiled at Suffragist headquarters
London Underground's mobile coverage project gains momentum: Euston station gets connected
London's Pocket Parks: Neo Bankside, SE1
Greater Anglia offering £10 return fares on train trips this autumn
Plans revealed to restore a disused theatre on Westbourne Grove
Roads closed for overnight delivery of lift shafts to Plumstead Station
A cut-back HS2 could end up being slower than the existing railway
London's Alleys: Langley Court, WC2
Giant spider puppeteer among local creatives moving into Bow's new permanent home
Hunt for hand-written notes by Andy Leek in Marylebone this October
Flash sale on Frozen the Musical tickets
Half price offer on TfL's cycle hire scheme
More tickets to visit Horizon 22 viewing gallery coming next month
Morden tube station wins TfL's annual best garden award
London's Public Art: The Reflection sculpture by David Breuer-Weil
Chance to climb a church tower
Dennis Severs’ House to have its annual Christmas makeover
Tube strike on the London Underground in October
Book Review: Little Boxes by Roger Elsom
Behind the curtain: Exploring the intriguing past of Hackney Empire
Tickets Alert: Visit Cosmic House - a Post-Modern architectural marvel
A glowing steam train returns to the Epping Ongar Railway
Wallace & Gromit's wrong trousers is the correct exhibition
Improving safety on the DLR: Railway workers equipped with geofencing warning kits
Avanti West Coast secures contract extension to keep running West Coast Mainline trains
Starlight Express is returning to London next year
Origins of Wimbledon's famous green towels' revealed in Museum of Brands exhibition
Battersea Park Station upgrade plans could provide step-free access
A 900-year-old tradition: Dunmow Flitch Trials to allow same-sex couples to take home the bacon
Ten William Blake inspired mosaics unveiled at Surbiton station in Kingston upon Thames
London's Alleys: Christys' Walk, SE1
HS2's Euston station at risk as Old Oak Common emerges as potential London terminus
Science Museum celebrates the inventor of the self-winding watch, Abraham-Louis Breguet
Half price tickets to see Felicity Kendal in Noises Off
Two more days of national rail strikes announced by ASLEF
Tube trains are now departing from 'Burberry Street' station for London Fashion Week
Stansted Express resumes its off-peak 15-minute frequency train service
Hounslow Council awarded £130k to improve local railway stations
Get a preview of Horizon 22 - London's highest viewing gallery
Free theatre tickets for 18-25 year olds
From Poverty to Power: Chanel's journey unveiled in V&A's fashion exhibition
New York subway station coming to London
Parts of Piccadilly and District lines are closing early on Friday
New footbridge installed at Walton-on-Thames station
Battery powered Thames Clipper boats arriving in London
London's Public Art: Horse and Rider by Elisabeth Frink
Step back in time: Explore Crystal Palace's Victorian Beasts with these new 3D scans
Book Review: Dock Life Renewed How London's Docks are Thriving Again
Free entry to the Chelsea Physic Garden to see the restored Glasshouses
A piece of Royal history: Coronation Chairs being sold to raise money for charity
A new Lido is being planned for Ilford
Red Arrows flypast over London on Tuesday lunchtime
Elizabeth line records busiest month to date
London's Alleys: Spring Mews, W1
Network Rail completes New Cross railway upgrades
Firefighting exhibition marks Sir Christopher Wren's 300th anniversary
Blue Plaque honours Tommy Flowers, the man behind Alan Turing's computer revolution
You might be able to see a comet in the skies this weekend
London Underground expands mobile phone coverage and confirms Elizabeth line coming soon
HS2 completes core of the Euston station's 'Sugar Cube'
Greater Anglia providing virtual tours of its new train fleet to help people travel with confidence
Alexander Fleming Museum celebrates 30th anniversary: From nappy storage to medical milestone
Restored tea room at London Bridge taken over by Starbucks
Go on a history tour of Wilton's Music Hall
Final tests on Northern City Line signals upgrade shows ready for passenger service
Giant cube-shaped dark kitchen coming to west London
London's Blue Plaques to become a UK-wide scheme
London's Pocket Parks: Exchange Square, EC2
Rare opportunity to visit a historic Spitalfields house in October
Carnaby Street shop filled with dayglo lettering
A labyrinth is being installed inside St Paul's Cathedral
Mayor supports southern rail link to Heathrow Airport
Tate Modern reopens its 10th floor viewing gallery
Former IKEA superstore could be turned into homes
Annual open day of the Strand Lane "Roman Baths"
Flash sale on Northern Rail train tickets
London's Alleys: Helen's Place, E2
How to request your very own Red Arrows flypast
Works to improve the Bakerloo line and London Overground completed
Luton DART carries its one millionth passenger
London’s free exhibitions to visit in September 2023
Win a cab ride in an Elizabeth line train
Unveiling the unsung hero: 360-year search ends as first witness to Great Fire of London identified
August 2023
Government kickstarts upgrade of Colindale and Leyton tube stations with initial £2.6 million grant
Harrow school offering public tours in September
Tower Bridge’s behind the scenes tours resume in November
Get ready to ride the festive rails: LNER releases Christmas tickets for advance booking
Finsbury Square's lost "Sodomites Walk"
Rail passengers warned of severe disruption this Friday and Saturday due to train strike
The Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling at the Brunei Gallery
Heritage restoration for Harrow and Wealdstone station
The Tanner Street Drinking Fountain
IKEA store on Oxford Street covered in a giant blue bag
Eurostar launches new ski service for UK customers looking for a green way to travel to the Alps
St Paul's Cathedral has reopened the Whispering Gallery
Public tours of the UK’s largest working sailing ship, SV Tenacious
London's Pocket Parks: Rosemary Triangle, N1
Open days at the Transport Museum's Acton Depot
Dennis Severs House reopening with ceramic exhibition
London's Alleys: St Chad's Place, WC1
National Cinema Day - Films from just £3 each
50 floors up, London's newest free viewing gallery has opened
Specially decorated double-decker bus to take part in the Notting Hill Carnival
Half price tickets to the ABBA drag comedy, The Way Old Friends Do
Tickets Alert: A light show inside a Soho car park
Royal Family's Kensington heliport to be turned into a public ice rink
More dates to go on tours of Trinity House
A Victorian marvel - Royal Doulton's Lambeth's headquarters
UK’s first centre dedicated to Anti-Apartheid to be created in London
Climb to the top of One Canada Square skyscraper
Take a walk through the Mail Rail tunnels -- with an extra bit for Christmas
Tickets Alert: An exhibition about old telephone exchanges
The London Museum wants your old signs
Paddington station opens a new travel lounge for passengers with disabilities and reduced mobility
Severe disruption expected due to train strike on Saturday
The North London Railway WWI memorial
HS2 completes complex Colne Valley viaduct manoeuvre
There's a Batman pop-up exhibition coming to London
A selection from London Open House 2023
London's Pocket Parks: Cossall Park, SE15
Tours of 10 Downing Street and the new London Museum with Open House London
Help name London’s next two giant tunnel boring machines
Imber Bus 2023: Thousands turn up to visit an empty village in a fleet of old buses
Horizon 22 - London's highest viewing gallery opens next month
London's Alleys: Carmel Court, W8
Tickets Alert: Free tours of Thames Water's grand pumping stations
Guided tours of Battersea Power Station's 1950s control room
Railway upgrade halves delays on Southern and Gatwick Express services at Victoria station
Another railway strike announced - by ASLEF train drivers
Sale on Tina Turner Musical tickets – from £25
Tickets Alert: Son-et-Lumiere to fill St Martin-in-the-Fields
Tower Bridge to "stay open" throughout the Bank Holiday Weekend
Network Rail engineering work continuing this weekend in south west London
A swarm of golden swallows lands on the side of Mayfair building
London Underground ticket barriers get Lionesses football makeover
The boat benches of Lambeth's White Hart Dock
c2c bans e-scooters, e-unicycles, and e-hoverboards from its trains
Watford Museum will be closing in October for two years
Charles Dickens Museum to study Wilkie Collins's Moonstone
Tickets Alert: Tours of the BT Tower taking place next month
A bundle of bamboo strips fills a corner of the Southbank Centre
Beau Brummell's statue on Jermyn Street
Capital Crime drops prices for crime and thriller writing talks
Britain’s fastest passenger train gets a makeover
TfL completes Blackhorse Road station housing development
Tickets Alert: See how Japan's Maglev trains work
Tickets Alert: Crown and Coronation lights show at the Tower of London
London's Pocket Parks: Old Paradise Gardens, SE11
First photos from inside the Silvertown Tunnel
National Gallery offering £1 tickets for its Frans Hals exhibition
Low-cost London to Edinburgh rail service Lumo launches flexible ticket offer
Kingston bus station to close for rebuilding work
London's Alleys: St. Ermin's Hill, SW1
Vintage tube train trips return to London in September
RMT announces more strikes on the national rail network
Book Review: A guide to walking the hills of London
Cheaper entry to Chiswick House and Gardens on Fridays
HS2 will bury two Tunnel Boring Machines at Old Oak Common
A 10-day closure of part of the DLR starts next Saturday
Off-peak travel on London's transport exceeding pre-pandemic levels
Japan's graphic art exhibition opens in Kensington
New cast announced for Les Misérables
Petition to reopen the disused Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace railway
London's Pocket Parks: Holly Grove Shrubbery, SE15
HS2's two TBMs now three-quarters of the way under the Chilterns
Marble Arch's unseen interior may be opened up again
Kew Garden's festive light trail returning from November
Black on the Trafalgar Square day announced
Your face could be on the Piccadilly Circus lights
Explore Baker Street station's disused spaces in a new London Transport Museum tour
Digital Storytelling at the British Library
A cluster of new offices and homes planned for Blackfriars
Outernet turns into Outer Space with NASA footage filling the video walls
A visit to Carshalton Water Tower and Hermitage
HS2 funds conversion of Ruislip Lido Railway's locomotive away from diesel fuel
HS2 Old Oak Common station recognised as ‘outstanding’ for environmental designs
London could be about to get a new museum of modern art at Marble Arch
Freddie Mercury: A spectacular exhibition of the rock legend's possessions at Sotheby's
London's Alleys: Smiths' Court, W1
DLR looking for exemptions on accessibility regulations
Winter Wonderland returning to Hyde Park
London's exhibitions to visit in August 2023
Will Gompertz to take over as Director of the Sir John Soane's Museum
Peppa Pig comes to the Natural History Museum
Three weeks of free events in the City of London
It's time to start booking your Heritage Open Day tours
Crossness's Victorian pumping station resumes steaming this month
c2c cracks down on fare evasion
A tube map for pigeon poo - the Guano Line
De Morgan's gold drawings glisten at Leighton House
David Hockney has painted Harry Styles for the National Portrait Gallery
See Doctor Who: The Five Doctors on the big screen
Paula Rego's enchanting mural finds a temporary home in the National Gallery
The Strongest Link WWII sculpture
Old Kent Road's railway bridge to get a fruit inspired makeover
Japanese railway exhibition opens in Kensington
Tate Modern's exhibition captures the vastness of Africa's photographic artistry
First of the new Piccadilly line trains has arrived in Germany for testing
London's Pocket Parks: Vauxhall Park, SW8
July 2023
Back to Hogwarts returning to King's Cross station
First mile of West London's HS2 tunnels completed, but Government report raises concerns
Brunel Museum’s tunnel shaft to open for free in August
Three luxury hotels selling off their art deco furniture
London's Alleys: Dover Yard, W1
Horniman Museum awarded £5.7 million towards major redevelopment project
London cricket team scores a stylish six with limited edition tube map clothing
Another attempt to fly the Lord Mayor's hot air balloons over London
Tickets sale on the Dickens' comedy Bleak Expectations
Greater Anglia reveals its first "trainbow" for Pride
Immerse yourself in gaming history as the Science Museum opens a games arcade
Chiltern Railways is now running trains powered by vegetable oil
Urgent decisions needed on new train orders for Bakerloo line and Southeastern services
Attend the City of London's ancient Silent Ceremony
Former North Woolwich railway station to become blocks of flats
Maria Callas exhibition at the Royal Opera House
NHS at 75 exhibition in Covent Garden
1930s modernism at the Isokon Flats
TfL Go app upgrade highlights closed tube lines & improved step-free information
London's Public Art: 1960s chess-inspired art near St Paul's Cathedral
Video art venue Frameless launches adults-only Late nights
Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko's paintings on show in London for the first time
London's HS2 tunnel segments being made in Hartlepool
Tickets Alert: Tours of South London's "Bovril Castle"
LGBTQ+ cultural space planned for Southwark's Bankside
London's Pocket Parks: Mulberry Square, SW1
Late openings of St Paul's Cathedral
Historical images transformed to create new mural in Bethnal Green
A mixed bag of doggy portraits at the Wallace Collection
Beam Park station delays push Havering Council to buy out housing partner
The King's Observatory is reopening for tours
London's Alleys: Denmark Place, WC2
Babylon 5 is coming to Blu-Ray
See the art the Royal Academy rejected for the Summer Exhibition
TfL to stop selling the Day Travelcard from Jan 2024
Tube strikes for next week have been cancelled
Southeastern announces extra trains to the coast for the summer holidays
Oxford Street offering free shops to independent businesses
Cycle lanes will return to Kensington High Street
New Piccadilly line trains arrive in Germany for testing
Recycled plastic used to decorate Carnaby Street
Damien Hirst takeover exhibition at Phillips auction house
Barbican Art Centre starts £25 million upgrade
Visit the Poppy Factory where Remembrance Poppies are made
London Underground station telephone kiosks granted heritage protection
Hawksmoor offering £15 meals on rail strike days
Dulwich Picture Gallery expanding with new building and gardens
Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer is visiting London
The Natural History Museum unveils a new logo and typeface
Dry dock tours of the Golden Hinde
A look inside South Western Railway's new Arterio trains
A week of tube strikes starts on Sunday
The Golden Letter of Alaungpaya to go on display at the British Museum
Tickets Alert: Drive a double-decker bus
Eurostar's business passengers to skip the check-in queues with smartphone app
The fires could go out at Dennis Severs' House
Giant silver ballet shoes appears in east London
Elizabeth line passenger numbers beating forecasts
London's first Night Bus started 110 years ago - in July 1913
Walt Disney exhibition coming to London this Autumn
Another week of overtime ban disruption for the railways
TfL proposes a special "bike bus" for cyclists to use the Silvertown Tunnel
London's Alleys: St Swithin's Lane, EC4
Simpson's in the Strand selling off surplus fixtures and fittings
Exhibition shows off 175 years of railway history at Waterloo station
Discounts on tickets to Horrible Histories - Terrible Tudors
Derelict Peckham railway arches to be refurbished
Coronation robes go on public display in Buckingham Palace
Roger Moore James Bond exhibition coming to London
Tickets Alert: The Royal School of Needlework & Five Coronations
The restoration of Charles Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop
Unusual London Overground trips possible this weekend
Modern architecture and porcelain at the Sir John Soane's Museum
A review of London’s recent railway upgrades
Camden housing left empty due to HS2 transformed into art studios
Les Misérables planning huge arena scale world tour shows
Princess Diana's dress to go on display next to Dot Cotton's overcoat
Photos from Waterloo Station's disused rail link
The Lyceum Theatre is having a free open day for local residents
Lost Victorian animal returns to Crystal Palace's dinosaurs
The official publication for the King's Coronation goes on sale
Ten more London Underground stations shortlisted for step-free access
Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram's Mars comes to West London
See the hidden world underneath Waterloo Station on its 175th anniversary
English National Opera offering free Gilbert & Sullivan themed walking tours
Two more tube strikes announced for the London Underground
The Jewish Museum will close its doors permanently on 30th July
London's Alleys: Dirty Lane, SE1
Walter x Zoniel portraits at the St James's Market Pavilion
Edgware bus station set for major redevelopment
New cast announced for The Phantom of the Opera
Half price tickets to see Spitting Image the Musical
Government criticised over HS2 Euston station delays
Discount sale on train tickets from London to the East Midlands
An entire week of tube strikes announced by the RMT union
Giant tubes have appeared on top of Temple tube station
Go behind the scenes as LT Museum adds Baker Street station to their Hidden London tours
Japanese sculptor Bikky Sunazawa's wood sculptures are on display in London
The Samuelson Mausoleum standing alone in quiet woods
A confusing AI art exhibition at the Science Gallery
Auction of old fairground ride equipment
Photo exhibition looks at poverty housing in East London
Government confirms plans to close English railway ticket offices
London's Pocket Parks: Pegler Square, SE3
The English National Opera is holding a clearance sale
London's free exhibitions to visit in July 2023
HS2 marks reinterment of Euston cemetery remains with a memorial monument
Vodafone switches on 4G across Battersea Power Station
See a scale model of St. Paul's Cathedral dome in this Sir Christopher Wren's exhibition
Southeast railway stations to get London-style contactless payments: First 53 announced today
The Ragged School Museum has reopened
Eurostar will transport Team GB athletes to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
TfL orders more DLR trains to support more house building
Wellcome Collection considering moving from Euston
Major upgrade of the 3 Mills film and TV studios completed
Rarely seen Holbein sketches from the Tudor Court to go on display
Lengthy closures of the Bakerloo line and London Overground in July and August
DLR tests ideas to help blind and partially sighted customers use the trains
London's Alleys: Thavies Inn, EC1
June 2023
Canary Wharf walkway covered in bright leggings
Bazalgette era stones from the Thames Embankment dotted around the City
Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth line's trainbow and why LGBTQ+ visibility matters
Imberbus Returns: Take trips in old buses through the Salisbury military firing range
New rainbow plaques celebrate London’s LGBTQI+ history
Illusionaries, an immersive video art installation comes to Canary Wharf
Visiting the church of St Edward the Confessor in Romford
Redevelopment plans at the Olympic Park for Network Rail's Bow Goods Yard
The annual Sculpture in the City walking trail is back
London Overground concession extended for another two years
GWR celebrates 150 years of the Marlow Branch Line
LNER testing direct London to Cleethorpes train services
Climb to the top of Britain's only surviving semaphore tower
Tickets Alert: Ride a heritage tube train through central London next month
Hornby releases HS2 model train
London getting a new public square with pedestrianisation of the St Paul’s Gyratory
Tickets Alert: New Scientist Live returns to the ExCeL Centre
Brent Cross West station passes safety tests ahead of opening
National Portrait Gallery reopens transformed with an easier layout and refreshed displays
Former V&A Museum of Childhood reopens as Young V&A, focused on learning and play
What happened to Westminster Abbey's coronation carpet after the Coronation?
TfL makes a colorful statement for London Pride with tube posters and wraps
London's Alleys: Abchurch Yard, EC4
A new riverside bar and café for the Tate Modern
Where to watch Wimbledon 2023 on outdoor screens
Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator - the Diamond Light Source
Sale on Heathers The Musical tickets
Science Museum encouraging people into engineering with new exhibition
Public art - Now You See Me at Principal Place
Three days of national rail strikes announced for July
A feast of costumes fills the V&A's Diva exhibition
TfL releases a limited edition 20th anniversary Oyster card
London's ancient Cart Marking ceremony takes place next month
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is offering public tours of their historic buildings
Princes Risborough railway signal box open day
History tours of Wilton's Music Hall
Barking & Dagenham residents can request a cycle hanger near their home
The magic of music concerts captured in photography
A look at the upgrades underway at Clapham Junction station
Botanical art show blooms with delicate wonders at the Saatchi Gallery
British Sci-Fi TV exhibition coming to London
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Old Bailey
Wicker Man exhibition opens in central London
London Underground expands mobile phone coverage to Mornington Crescent station
Kentish Town tube station closing next week for a year
Tickets Alert: A military musical spectacular in Horseguards parade
Railway overtime ban announced by train drivers union
The Holborn Void is finally being filled in
London's Alleys: All Souls' Place, W1
Tickets to Grease the Musical now from just £17.50
Isaac Julian's videos fills Tate Britain galleries
Tickets Alert: Visit the Post-Modern architectural gem that's “Cosmic House”
TfL's submits plans to extend the DLR to Thamesmead
Tickets Alert: Climb to the top of Windsor Castle
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday
Skulls and speedos at this stained glass exhibition
Queen Elizabeth I's silver thread dress going on display in the City of London
There's a scale model of the Barbican estate in the Barbican Arts Centre
London's Pocket Parks: Pedlar's Park, SE11
A chance to abseil off Europe's highest helipad
Glastonbury travel advice from GWR for train passengers
Greatest Hits mural covering the Museum of London doors
A locally brewed Pale Ale will be offered on Eurostar trains
Two new directors appointed to oversee the HS2 railway delivery
Go on a tour of a church crypt in Greenwich
Tickets Alert: Free bus tours of Barking and Dagenham
Exceptional Roman Mausoleum discovered in South London
Historic England wants your modern photos of old postcard views
Grayson Perry's 'irrational beast that controls the market' appears at the Guildhall Art Gallery
There's an English church with the Sistine Chapel painted onto its ceiling
A Sex and the City pop-up comes to London
A new series of Secrets of the London Underground returns in July
The Famous Five reunite for a train adventure with Great Western Railway
Florence Nightingale's customized wheelchair returned to the UK after fundraising campaign
Strike action due to affect buses across north London for four days in June
London's Alleys: Spring Mews, SE11
Hoxton Hall's fresh splashy twist in the tale of The Little Mermaid
UK flypast to mark the retirement of the RAF Hercules
London Public Art: Water's Murmur by Julian Stocks
We Will Rock You musical tickets less than half price from just £15
Superloop bus consultation opens between North Finchley and Walthamstow
HS2 is seeking suppliers to fit-out its new high-speed trains
Underbelly secures Soho lease for its first permanent home
Tickets Alert: City of London beer festival
Comic sketches of London's architecture in the Barbican Library
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick to star in London run of Plaza Suite
Three month trial offer on the National Art Pass
London's Pocket Parks: St Olave Silver Street, EC2
The short life and art of Stephen Tomlin -- the Bloomsbury Stud
Tickets Alert: Tours of Big Ben go on sale next week
Berthe Morisot is Shaping Impressionism at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Andy Lord named as TfL's permanent Commissioner
Visit St Mary Magdalene's church, Boveney
Greater Anglia offering £10 return fares on train trips this summer
Elizabeth line popularity drives housing demand along the railway
Saatchi Gallery filled with monumental photographs of humanity's impact
National Gallery Visits returns, touring Constable's The Cornfield all over England
Paul McCartney and Stanley Tucci in conversation at the National Portrait Gallery
Day trips from London: Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire
London Underground expands mobile phone coverage into Camden Town station
New self-guided tours of Lincoln's Inn
Knightsbridge tube station's heritage shopping posters
V-shaped piers unveiled for HS2's Colne Valley railway viaduct
London's Alleys: St Martin's Court, WC2
Large housing developments proposed next to Jubilee line
LNER introduces Azuma Train in a celebration of Pride
London's Jewish Museum to close and sell building amid pandemic losses
Wes Anderson's Asteroid City exhibition in London for 3 weeks only
A delicate display of Korean weaving skills
Carshalton's annual Lavender harvest returns next month
Lower prices with ‘Flexi Season’ deal for part-time commuters on Southeastern extended
Abseil off the top of the Lloyd's Building in the City
Mayors of London and Manchester call for HS2 to be built in full
London exhibitions to visit in June 2023
TfL in talks to buy more Elizabeth line trains to cope with HS2 demand
May 2023
Fantasia, The Black Hole and Tron to highlight a Disney season at the BFI
Mobile phone coverage expanding on the Northern and Central lines
Indiana Jones statue coming to Leicester Square
New exhibition looks at the UK's role in indenture labour
A visit to St Bartholomew's Church, Horley
There are three days of railway strikes this week
Foundling Museum given until September to secure its long term future
TfL to double roadside wildflower verges following successful trials
Tickets Alert: Tours of the 350 year old Stationers' Hall
Piccadilly decorated with artistic flags
Lost sculpture from the Festival of Britain found in a back garden
London's Pocket Parks: McDermott Gardens, SE15
Giant Morph sculptures appearing in the City of London
Tickets Alert: Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
Refurbishment for Malden Manor's art-deco railway station
London's Alleys: Piccadilly Place, W1
Own a piece of Eurovision history: Stage sets and costumes come up for auction
Step inside Sir John Soane museum's hidden "drawing room"
Tickets Alert: Vintage tube train trips to Heathrow Airport
Free tours of a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College offering tours of their domes
New range to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground
V&A opens the UK's largest permanent photography gallery
Purfleet-on-Thames railway station set for major rebuild as plans submitted for approval
A restored museum of Handel and Hendrix has reopened
Design Museum takes an offbeat look at a revitalised sari
Funding boost to revive unused historic buildings across the UK
Brent Cross West station gears up for Autumn opening with new station signs
The Wicker Man returns to the cinemas for the Summer Solstice
Discover Chiswick House and Gardens
Sale on Tina Turner Musical Tickets - from £24
RMT union extends its London Underground strike mandate
Pressure building to extend the DLR to Thamesmead
Upminster windmill reopens to the public
Is it time to kill off Wi-Fi on the railways?
London's Pocket Parks: Starcross Yard, NW1
For one week only - Chelsea and Belgravia streets filled with a free flower show
Elizabeth line's new peak time timetable starts with a broken down train
Historic railway track restored at Paddington station
Chance to climb a church tower
Shortlist announced for the 2023 Art Fund Museum of the Year
London's Alleys: Gordon Place, W8
Stratford station will be easier to use with new entrance being built
Mayfield lavender farm reopens in June
Book Review: London's South Bank The History by Mireille Galinou
Ten new plays for £5 each at the National Theatre's Connections Festival
Evita in Concert comes to Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Another train strike announced by the RMT
Elizabeth line strike called off
New art appears at Gloucester Road tube station
A roof garden could be coming to Oxford Street
British Museum's richly decorated look at China's final century of imperial rule
Video art installation illuminates Peckham Rye station's hidden Victorian waiting room
New footbridge planned for the Royal Docks
Ticket Alerts: Tours of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Flying Scotsman visiting London in June
Heritage railway extension will link it to the mainline railway again
London Underground themed clothing on sale at Uniqlo Covent Garden
Mondrian meets Af Klint at the Tate Modern
Isleworth station is next to receive step-free access upgrade
Lee Valley ice rink opening with £1 skate day
Excavation at Old Oak Common station reaches HS2 track depth milestone
A display of coronations from ancient to the most recent at Lambeth Palace Library
London Underground criticised after track worker hit by train
A visit to Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
LNER names its first Azuma train celebrating its centenary
Consultation opens to create cycle lanes on Kensington High Street
Three large scale models of London to enjoy
London's Alleys: Bucklersbury Passage, EC2
Chelsea Flower Show garden is coming to Latimer Road tube station
One million rarely seen archive photos released online for free
Alexander Fleming Museum scraps its admission charges
The Hunterian Museum is back and better than ever
Reduced access to Holloway Road tube station for a year while lifts are replaced
Book tickets to see inside buildings for the London Festival of Architecture
Sir John Soane "Drawing Office" opening to the public for the first time ever
London's newest museum shows off a huge slice of Roman wall
England’s oldest hospital gets a central London exhibition
Sir Christopher Wren tricentenary exhibition opens in St Paul's Cathedral
A troubled look at Milk at the Wellcome Collection
Severe disruption expected due to train strike on Friday and Saturday
London's Pocket Parks: Kirkwood Nature Reserve, SE15
The unforgotten Londoners exposed in this archival exhibition
A fresh look at the Rossettis at Tate Britain goes beyond big hair and big lips
Elizabeth line strike to hit on its first anniversary
Vintage computer games returns to the Science Museum
Peckham Rye station restoration topped out with golden finials
Book Review: London Tube Stations 1924-1961
The Coronation Stage will remain on display in Westminster Abbey for a week
Persia to Greece at the British Museum challenges the clash of cultures
London's Alleys: Granny Dripping Steps, NW6
Tickets Alert: Take sheep across Southwark Bridge
Timetable for the Coronation and where to watch in Central London
Is the King's Cross? Nope, just King Charles III telling us to Mind the Gap
RMT members vote to continue national rail strikes
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Speaker's House inside Parliament
Tickets Alert: Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow's disused gasworks
See the Coronation Stone in Kingston
See a Japanese float on display in the British Museum
Tickets Alert: Tours of Goldsmiths' Hall
Dennis Severs House fills its rooms with a young man's ceramics
London's Pocket Parks: The White House Garden, SE1
Rececently uncovered Roman Wall in the City of London given heritage protection
More frequent trains on the DLR to reduce waiting times at stations
Tickets Alert: Graffiti workshops in Leake Street
Work to make Finsbury Park station completely step-free now complete
Exclusive photos: See inside the City of London's Aldermen's Court Room
London exhibitions to visit in May 2023
Help design a new railway station "clock" for Network Rail
London's Alleys: Rose and Crown Yard, SW1
April 2023
London Underground to close Kentish Town tube station for a year
School kids get free entry to Frameless on Tuesday
Discounts on tickets to see The Mousetrap
Detailed maps of London's Superloop bus service released
New Casting Announced for HAMILTON at the Victoria Palace Theatre
London's Public Art: Landline, W1
Tickets Alert: Tours of Alexandra Palace's old railway station and basement
Tickets Alert: Out of hours Titanosaur tours at the Natural History Museum
More national rail strikes announced by ASLEF and RMT unions
Tube roundels get crowns for the coronation
Meet your Dorothy! Georgina Onuorah joins The Wizard of Oz
At the remains of the Elizabethan era Boar's Head Playhouse
Cost of Luton Airport's DART shuttle cut for train passengers
The 300th anniversary of the Constitutions of the Freemasons
LNER launches the Carolean Express train service
London's Pocket Parks: Princes Circus, WC1
RMT to ballot London Underground staff in dispute over jobs and pensions
See the animator behind the Watership Down and Animal Farm films
May Bank Holiday weekend train disruptions
Westminster refuses to restrict access to former US Embassy roof terrace
See the Coronation stage inside Westminster Abbey
Work starting soon on step-free access at Plumstead railway station
Waterloo station to replace its glass roof
Tickets Alert: Demonstrations and workshops during London Craft Week
New exhibition tells the story of fashion during the reign of the Four Georges
Final phase in opening the Elizabeth line confirmed for next month
Peter Pan flies into The London Palladium this Christmas
Look out for a swarm of unmanned flying objects in Greenwich
London's Alleys: Wild Court, WC2
Climb a Harrow church tower and walk on its roof
Tickets Alert: London Zoo's late nights return in June
Work starting on adding step-free access to Tooting station
The National Gallery is digging a tunnel next to Trafalgar Square
Special offer on Dirty Dancing tickets at the Dominion Theatre
HS2's Euston station not expected to open until Manchester link is completed
Camden's Dead Dog Bridge reopens to the public
How to get tickets for the Last Night of the Proms 2023
Visit St Barts the Great in its 900th anniversary year
London is getting a new Museum -- of Shakespeare
Cargo bike delivery hub set up in Victoria
Classic London street signs being sold at auction
Discover Seven Dials hidden Ching Court
TfL pushing on with DLR extension to Thamesmead
TfL looking at scrapping the Day Travelcard
One of Europe's largest cranes used for Clapham Junction station upgrade
London's Pocket Parks: Smithfield Rotunda Garden, EC1
Phantom of the Opera's theatre to be renamed after the King
Transport for London issues travel advice for the Coronation
Tickets Alert: Tours of Spencer House and garden
London's Alleys: Jerusalem Passage, EC1
Exhibition shows off King Charles III's 43 years at Highgrove
Portraits from Backstage - an exhibition at the National Theatre
Special offer on tickets to Frozen the Musical
The Art Deco heritage tube train returns to the London Underground
Rail industry makes fresh offer to stop train strikes
A gigantic statue of a demon has appeared in North Greenwich
Last chance to go on a tour of the historic St Barts Hospital
West London Orbital Railway likely to get approval
Avoid Waterloo station - SWR warns of major disruption to train services
London's Pocket Parks: St John's Churchyard, SE1
London's Hunterian Museum reopens next month
HS2 buys an ex-Crossrail tunnelling machine for Old Oak Common tunnel
TfL converts over half of bus shelter lighting to low-energy LEDs
Monthly tours of the City of London's Guildhall
Find a giant rusty nail in the City of London
200 year old fish found under the House of Lords
Ai Weiwei fills the Design Museum with bricks and stones
No, TfL is not planning to scrap peak hour fares on Fridays
The Sky Garden tops 10 million visitors
The National Army Museum's revamped Conflict in Europe exhibition
TfL selects partner for 900 homes development in Acton
Tickets Alert: 175th anniversary tours of Waterloo Station
World’s first cash machine bank bulding gets heritage protection
King's Coronation route to Westminster Abbey announced
London's Alleys: Orchard Place, SW1
National Gallery puts Cavallino's Saint Bartholomew on public display
British Museum now offering free membership for young people
Bid to win some amazing railway experiences
Exhibition about the Liverpool Street railway station redevelopment plans
David Bowie exhibition opens at the Southbank Centre
London's Pocket Parks: Radnor Street Gardens, EC1
Find a work of art inside King's Cross tube station
Reimagined vintage tube posters celebrate London's live art and culture
Stand inside a 250-year old subterranean ice well
Look out for these special DLR trains that are now under trial
Exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the Green Party
Filthy fogs fills the Charles Dickens Museum
The 500th anniversary of St Margaret's Westminster
The former Museum of London building may be saved from demolition
Uncovering a concealed 1930s art deco cinema
Vodafone switches on Wi-Fi on the London Underground
London exhibitions to visit in April 2023
London's Alleys: Underhill Passage, NW1
March 2023
West Hampstead tube station to get step-free access
A London Underground steam loco comes to OO model railways
London’s first Action Plan to promote the growth of cargo bikes
Flash sale on Peaky Blinders immersive tickets
Old Operating Theatre museum reopening with free open day
Tours of a Roman London bathhouse resume in April
This Monday marks the final day for Greater Anglia's old Class 321 trains
Two copies of Shakespeare's First Folio on display in London
Inside Mayfair's Grosvenor Chapel
A huge Titanosaur goes on display this weekend
Cycle hire cargo bikes expand into Westminster
Boris Johnson in cartoons - at the Cartoon Museum
Monumental display of British maritime art at Queen's House
London's Pocket Parks: Festival Garden, EC4
Simpsons Tavern secures reprieve in fight to reopen
A superloop bus service for Outer London
Book review: Nick Higham's The Mercenary River
Channel 4 building given heritage protection as it's listed as Grade II
A visit to the refurbished RAF Biggin Hill Museum & Chapel
Nalini Malani subverts the Old Masters into a huge video display
RMT strike on the London Cable Car
The restored "Bovril Castle" in south London is opening to the public
Competition to design a mural for Hackney Wick station
HS2's Euston station cost has nearly doubled to £4.8 billion
London's Alleys: Havelock Walk, SE23
Tickets Alert: Boat trip through a tunnel under Islington town centre
Cost cutting and higher fares pushing TfL into surplus next year
Discount sale on Les Miserables tickets
London Overground to be split into separate lines
Rare chance to stand on Westminster Abbey's 13th-century Cosmati Pavement
Attempts to restart the Western Rail Link to Heathrow Airport
Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens in April
Ramadan Lights switched on near Leicester Square
TfL needs more Elizabeth line trains because of HS2 delays at Euston
Tickets Alert: Tours of 10 Downing Street's back garden
Pay a visit to Charles Darwin's home at Down House
RMT calls off remaining railway strikes
Watch Doctor Who and Quatermass on the big screen
Sealed off Thames riverside path reopens to the public
Tickets Alert: Tours of Eton College have resumed
London's Pocket Parks: Minchenden Oak Garden, N14
Parliament to offer public tours of Big Ben next month
HS2 archaeology exhibition opens in central London
Tickets Alert: Free tours of the Chatley Heath semaphore tower
Step-free upgrade for Hither Green station gets planning approval
Tickets Alert: Annual Open Day at the National Physical Laboratory
RMT union calls off the Network Rail strikes
Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and gardens
Avanti West Coast gets temporary extension of its rail contract
London's Alleys: Cut Throat Alley, TW10
Tickets Alert: Visit the Post-Modernist "Cosmic House" in Holland Park
Great British Bake Off (GBBO) the musical: Sale on ticket prices
The Elizabeth line is the UK's busiest railway
Virgin Media O2 switches on mobile phone coverage on the London Underground
Museums and galleries visitors still down by a quarter on pre-pandemic levels
Tower of London revamping its Crown Jewels display
Rare film from inside the Tower Subway tunnel
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
A spiral of motorway road signs in Somerset House
The Ugly Duchess is shown off at the National Gallery
Miffy pop-up store coming to London's Chinatown
Look out for a chemicals tanker visiting central London
See a Georgian Print Shop in central London
Exhibition looks at the design of Japanese braided cords
London's Pocket Parks: Gibson Square Gardens, N1
Severe disruption on the London Underground due to tube strike
Tickets Alert: Farewell tour of a Class 321 train with Greater Anglia
TfL reviewing fit-out plans for Elephant and Castle tube station
Cheap entry to the London Wetland Centre
A new railway museum has opened in Epping
Perivale Wood’s bluebells open days announced
Tickets Alert: Visit the Chevening House gardens
Avanti West Coast trials a low-cost ticket - with restrictions
Today's the 90th anniversary of a Piccadilly line extension
London's Alleys: Alan Cheales Way, NW5
Cheap entry to London museums for National Lottery Open Week
National rail users warned of strike action next week
A new Phantom for The Phantom of the Opera
Go on a tour of the historic Lincoln's Inn
HS2 railway faces more delays as government reviews the project
DLR starts upgrade of its Beckton Depot
The Metropolitan Police coat hook is MISSING
Kids for a Quid on the Epping Ongar Railway
London's Pocket Parks: Harrington Square Gardens, NW1
New Elizabeth line timetable for May released
There's a small Spitting Image exhibition in central London
Motspur Park station step-free access works start next month
A chance to climb up an Islington church tower
Museum of London starts packing after its closure
HS2's London tunnel boring machines reach Amersham
Several days of tube and rail strikes next week
Sigmund Freud’s clutter excavated to reveal its treasures
British Museum to look at China's "long" 19th-century of conflicts and change
A plan to extend the Elizabeth line -- into Essex and Kent
Westminster Abbey to close for the Coronation preparations
Cold War bunker open days confirmed
More dates announced to walk through the Mail Rail tunnels
Peckham Rye station's amazing "waiting room" to open to the public
The 300th London alley article
New displays to make bus times easier to find
Save on tickets to the Rocky Horror Show stage musical
Tickets Alert: Rare tours of Birmingham's brutalist railway signal control box
There's a James Bond props exhibition in Harrods
Medieval law requires a bundle of straw to be hung from the Barking flood barrier
Third of Londoners avoid public transport due to cost - survey
London exhibitions to visit in March 2023
Saatchi Gallery fills its entire building with Street Art
New railway signalling for north London
The Beauty of Transience - at the Japanese Embassy
Tickets Alert: Southgate tube station anniversary celebrations
Revamped Museum of Childhood reopens as Young V&A in July
London Underground strike joined by RMT union
London's Public Parks: Albion Square Gardens, E8
February 2023
Tickets Alert: Open weekend at the London Transport Museum’s overflow depot
James Bond photographs go on display
Luton Airport's shuttle train, Luton DART opens next week
Reopening Arthur Street to pedestrians and cyclists
Knole House - a day trip to an Archbishop's Palace
New tunnel under the Thames completed
50th anniversary of David Bowie's Aladdin Sane at the SouthBank Centre
Alice Neel at the Barbican Arts Gallery
Bank tube station's new Cannon Street entrance has opened
London's Alleys: Craig's Court, SW1
Tickets Alert: The Tweed Run is back!
TSSA rail union cancels strikes after accepting pay deal
Fish and chips on a steam train
Half price tickets to see Felicity Kendal in Noises Off
London is getting a Kyiv Road in front of the Russian Embassy
Exceptional Roman London kiln to be restored and put on display
London's public art: Circadian - Marble Arch Place
Flying Scotsman coin released by the Royal Mint
David Bowie's archive donated to the V&A Museum
A review of London's recent railway upgrades
Photography from the Ukraine war at the Imperial War Museum
Tube strike announced on the London Underground
Tickets to attend Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2023
Volunteers wanted to test the Luton DART shuttle train
How the trains will be affected by Easter engineering works
Buckingham Palace's Royal Mews reopens in March
Nearly half of Londoners have used the Elizabeth line - survey
A new museum for the City of London
More delays to Old Street station and roundabout upgrade
Gilbert & George opening a free gallery in Spitalfields
There's a Status Quo exhibition at the Barbican
An immersive lights display coming to east London
Arnos Grove tube station car park to close next month
See Darth Vader fishing in the City of London
London's Alleys: Pigsty Alley, SE10
Special prices on tickets to Dirty Dancing at the Dominion Theatre
Battery train trials will proceed in west London as GWR buys Vivarail
Get free tickets to The Mandalorian pop-up in Piccadilly Circus
Bexley station getting step-free access
Rail Strikes - RMT union announces four more days of strikes
Tickets Alert: Tours of Croydon Old Palace
The City of London's market plans run up against 775 year old law
The Big City: London painted on a grand scale
You can climb to the top of the Canonbury Tower
There's a free maps giveaway on Monday
See LEGO dinosaurs at the Horniman Museum
Get £100 worth of beer from indie pubs for £20
A statue for the peace campaigner, Brian Haw
Sailing ship authorised for cargo deliveries in the Thames
How to save money when buying train tickets
Peter Doig's monumental portaits in the Courtauld
The meaning of the door codes on the DLR trains
Disused railway arches in Camberwell to be restored
Imberbus day confirmed for this August
Only couples can apply for the Coronation Concert
Watch hot air balloons drifting over central London
London's Alleys: Jacob's Well Mews, W1
RMT union rejects "dreadful" pay offer threatening more train strikes
Free tours of the disused Bromley-by-Bow gasworks
Beavers could protect a tube station from flooding
Disney centenary show coming to London
Early bird tickets to Open Garden Squares Weekend
See inside Hackney's St Peter de Beauvoir church
Take a sneak peek inside the DLR's new trains
Tickets Alert: Tours of the British Museum's round reading room
London's Pocket Parks: St Pancras Church Garden, EC4
London Overground turns unused rooms in stations into community centres
The Architecture the Railways Built returns for its 4th series
There's an important reason to visit the Post Building's roof terrace
HS2 could be delayed by another four years
Plans for 20,000 new homes on London's railway land
Find Richmond Avenues's Egyptian sphinxes
HS2's longest railway tunnels reach halfway point under the Chilterns
British Library extension building gets approved
Water-loo station's toilets are to be refurbished
Campaign seeks to return Florence Nightingale's customised wheelchair to the UK
London's Alleys: Magpie Alley, EC4
London Underground gets 5G phone coverage in its tunnels
Go on a tour of the UK's Supreme Court
Special offer on tickets to see Jersey Boys at the Trafalgar Theatre
TfL contractors offered free travel on London's public transport
Tickets Alert: Science Fiction film festival comes to the Science Museum
TfL's debt gets rating upgrade
See a video installation inside St Martin's church this week
Surrey Quays station on the London Overground getting step-free access
A third series of "Secrets of the London Underground" coming soon
A visit to St Nicholas Church, Chiswick
London exhibitions to visit in February 2023
Elizabeth line hits 100 million journeys milestone
Tate Modern loses privacy court case from neighbouring flat owners
Proposal to extend the Northern line to Clapham Junction
London Underground themed trainers from Mallet London
London's Pocket Parks: Thornhill Gardens, N1
January 2023
Ai Weiwei takes over the Design Museum with major exhibition
More tours of disused and hidden parts of the London Underground
The City of London and Signor Favale’s Marriage Portion Charity
Final piles installed for west London's new HS2 railway bridge
The nitty gritty of the TfL fares changes for 2023
Tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show 2023
Two rail strikes this week to cause "severe disruption"
The English Civil War Society marches through Central London
London's Alleys: Kendall Place, W1
Tickets Alert: Hidden highlights tours of Westminster Abbey
Discounted tickets for the Book of Mormon
Will HS2 be cut back from central London?
Elizabeth line's next upgrade set for 21st May 2023
London's Pocket Parks: Asteys Row Rock Garden, N1
Tickets Alert: Tours of Speaker’s House inside the Houses of Parliament
See inside HS2's new Old Oak Common railway station
Museum of London asks the public to donate their London fashions
New managment takes over Transport for London's car parks
Public open days to show off Kingston Upon Thames new cultural centre
Visit the curious Amersham Fair Organ Museum
Northbound trains unable to call at Harringay station due to urgent repair work
Handel & Hendrix museum confirms its reopening date
The Queen and her Corgis coming to the Wallace Collection
Greater Anglia sale on train fares from £10 return
Colindale and Leyton tube stations getting step-free access upgrades
A latest release of London Underground themed whiskies
Giant "soap bubbles" filling the base of the Leadenhall skyscraper
Government delays decision on TfL's pensions reform
London's Alleys: Bells Alley, SW6
Plans to open a disused railway as the "Camden Highline" are approved
Theydon Bois - the town with no street lights
Tube strike: Bakerloo line staff to walk out
Canary Wharf's Winter Lights festival has opened
Trains from Sutton to the London Cancer Hub to double in frequency
Consultation shows off the office slab to be built above Liverpool Street station
Rare display of clown costumes in central London
Derelict Silvertown site set for £3.5 billion development
Georgian fashion to be explored by The Queen's Gallery
Phantom of the Opera announces new cast members
Transport for London fares to rise by 5.9% from March
Pollock's Toy Museum forced to close
Kensington's mobile memorial to Queen Victoria
Shirley Valentine play with Sheridan Smith extended to a 15 week run
Harrow school offering public tours in February
South Kensington tube station development inquiry opens this week
Exhibition looks at the 670 year history of High Treason
Another rail strike announced for February
Elizabeth line passenger numbers beating forecasts
Chiltern Railways offering half-price train tickets
Tickets Alert: Tours of Longford Castle, near Salisbury
Church of England's slave trading profits examined in new exhibition
New footbridge links up either side of Barnes railway bridge
London's Alleys: Queen's Gate Place Mews, SW7
Making Clerkenwell Green even greener
Half price tickets to see Felicity Kendal in Noises Off
Guided tours of the British Library
Monday only: Free entry to Frameless – an immersive art exhibition
Part of the Bakerloo line and London Overground to close for 9-days next month
More housing developments approved to sit next to railway stations
UK's largest Sari exhibition coming to the Design Museum
TfL will require a phone to log into their website accounts
The modernist St Saviour's Church, Warwick Avenue
January sale on Great Western Railway (GWR) train tickets
London's Hunterian Museum is to reopen in March
The day Londoners humbled an Austrian tyrant
Barts Hospital's "Hogarth" stairs to be restored
Twickenham's Strawberry Hill House to be filled with Old Master paintings
See the British Museum's own Crystal Skull
Eurostar's January sale offers 29,000 discounted trips to Europe
New footbridge at Southall over the Great Western Main Line railway
Pyrotechnics on the Thames at Wapping
TfL warns of Elizabeth line strike this Thursday
London's Alleys: Dangoor Walk, NW1
London's cycle hire scheme has its busiest year ever
Discounts on Great British Bake Off musical tickets
Campaign to save the Hampstead Antique Emporium
Barkers department store to be refurbished
Make a spectacle of yourself at the Wellcome Collection
The unexpected interior of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone
V&A Museum doubling the size of its Photography Galleries
London's 2023 ceremonial gun salutes
New cycleway between Holloway and Finsbury Park construction starts this month
London's Public Art: Unity by Ivan Klapez
International Hall's old colonial emblems
Tours of the Lord Mayor of London's Mansion House
The unexpected heritage of London Bridge station's iron girders
Go on tours of buildings sites this March
London exhibitions to visit in January 2023
London's Alleys: James Court, W1
December 2022
New departure screens for Charing Cross railway station
Phantom of the Opera - tickets currently from £27
January train strikes to cause serious rail disruption
Rediscover Lucian Freud at the National Gallery
Overnight train from London to Berlin starts May 2023
London's Public Art: Geology Rebuilt 2022
Obituary: The Hardy Tree, St Pancras Old Church
The women who taught hieroglyphs
Attend the Tower of London's ancient Ceremony of the Keys
A parkland walk along a disused railway line
Train strike announced for the Elizabeth line
Snowdrop days at Thenford Arboretum
More concerns over plans to open Beam Park station
City of London planning new park near St Paul's Cathedral
IWM looks at computer war games with an immersive exhibition
IlluminoCity - two winter lights displays in the City
Regulated rail fares to rise by nearly 6% in March 2023
Winter sales on London theatre tickets
Inside the church of St George's, Hanover Square
Tutankhamun as street art at the British Museum
More rail strikes announced for just after Christmas
Mobile phone coverage on the London Underground reaches the Central and Northern lines
Matthew Flinders and Trim the cat - statue outside Euston Station
Tickets Alert: London Concours 2023
Digital recreation of an extinct rhino at the Natural History Museum
Train drivers at 15 companies to strike on Thursday 5th January
Three free exhibitions at the British Library
Kew Gardens' orchid festival returns in 2023
Train strike to seriously disrupt rail services on Christmas Eve
London's Christmas tree recycling collections 2022/23
London's Alleys: Sicilian Avenue, WC1
What to do in London on Christmas Day 2022
Study finds London Underground air contains ultrafine metallic pollution
Watch “Father Christmas” fly over London on Christmas morning
Simpson's Tavern granted protection as it fights to reopen
Tickets Alert: Visit Diamond Light Source - the UK’s largest particle accelerator
National Portrait Gallery confirms it will reopen in June 2023
South Western Railway cutting train services over Christmas due to staff shortages
The Bourne Valley Wharf pavilion
Elizabeth line staff vote for strike action
Christmas trips through the Islington canal tunnel
Mayor of London to raise council tax to fund public transport services
The 800-year old church of St Martin-in-the-Fields
TfL awards Bakerloo line extension consultancy contract
Barbican celebrates women from pre-revolutionary Iran
A giant floating moon fills Greenwich's Painted Hall
Smithfield's Christmas Eve auction – cancelled for 2022
A decade of contactless payments on London's public transport
The pedestrianisation of Strand has been completed
Ambulance staff to read safety messages on the London Underground
LEGO dinosaurs coming to the Horniman Museum
London's Alleys: Bleeding Heart Yard, EC1
Ten photos of a foggy Regent's Canal
A look at London’s recent railway upgrades
We Will Rock You - the Queen and Ben Elton musical returns to London
London's museum & galleries Christmas 2022 opening dates
Chiltern Railway's last Parliamentary Train from West Ealing
Train companies warn people to avoid travel during rail strikes
London's Pocket Parks: Embassy Gardens, SW11
Shopping surge sends tube stations back to pre-pandemic levels
Lego compatible London Underground train released
A world of the weird and wonderful fills the Design Museum
New public art behind the Elizabeth line's Bond Street station
A new footbridge is to be built at Canary Wharf
Behind the scenes tours of the Barbican theatre
400 years of Christmas Past on display at the Museum of the Home
Hopton Street's 320 year old house
RMT announces new rail strike for Christmas Eve
Christmas themed tours of Shakespeare's Globe theatre
Tickets Alert: London Open Gardens is back
Ride in a 1950s vintage bus on Christmas Day
London's Alleys: Stanhope Mews East, SW7
Rail industry offers deal to RMT to end train strikes
St. Pancras station's Christmas Tree is a tower of buildings
Science Museum exhibition looks at the race for a COVID vaccine
Save on tickets to Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre
Threat of strike action on the Elizabeth line
TfL to slash another £600 million from its annual budget by 2026
London exhibitions to visit in December 2022
Restored painting of the Nativity by Piero goes on display at the National Gallery
New London to Wales train service gets permission to start
London's Pocket Parks: Nelson Square Garden, SE1
November 2022
Tours of the 230 year old Trinity House
Rail disruptions over the Christmas break
Take a winter wander through Highgate Cemetery
Supermodels - a delightful exhibition of architect's models in Kings Cross
There's a field of glowing roses in Central London
Unusual use of London Overground track over Christmas
Tickets Alert: The Magic Circle's Christmas magic shows
HS2 showing off new plans for London Euston station
Spot the restored phonebox with its original interior at St Pancras
TfL seeking new provider for its contactless and oyster card payments
London's Alleys: Sedley Place, W1
The world's largest dinosaur is coming to the Natural History Museum
One week left to visit the Museum of London
Charles Dickens Museum gets dressed for Christmas
The ULEZ charge to drive polluting cars in London to be expanded
TfL offering discounted cycle hire for Black Friday weekend
London Zoo takes delivery of a new male gorilla
Street art exhibition coming to the Saatchi Gallery
Consultation opens into £1.5 billion rebuild of Liverpool Street station.
Medieval river wall may have been found underneath Parliament
Waterloo station retakes crown for UK's busiest railway station
London's Pocket Parks: Compton Terrace Gardens, N1
Black Friday deals on London theatre tickets
London bus cuts are themselves cut back
Tickets Alert: The Fan Museum lit by candles
HS2 opens a giant conveyor belt in West London
Westminster Council will keep its gas street lamps
More rail strikes as RMT announces 4 weeks of industrial action
Illuminature - a winter wander through the WWT London Wetland Centre
The chimney lift has opened at Battersea Power Station
Take a trip in a magical glowing steam train
Last few weeks to see Dippy the Dinosaur
National rail strike this coming Saturday (26th Nov)
Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust’s heritage homes
London's Alleys: Langthorn Court, EC2
Southeastern buying a fleet of new trains
City of London to move Billingsgate and Smithfield markets to Dagenham
Save up to £35 on tickets to Frozen the Musical this winter
Twitter's time for a Requiem Mass?
Harringay station footbridge upgrades to get started
Cheap Charterhouse tours for Islington residents
60 million trips on the Elizabeth line since it opened
London's Pocket Parks: Aske Gardens, N1
The heritage railway restoring a GWR Diesel Railcar
Part of the Bakerloo line and London Overground to close for a week before Christmas
Give the gift of Museum Membership this Christmas
London Underground testing new step-free device at Jubilee line stations
An eternal flame burning at an east London war memorial
Arsenal releases new range of London Underground themed clothing
Strike action to affect trains in/out of Paddington this weekend
Evenings with the Royal Observatory telescopes
Last chance to ride Chiltern's parliamentary train
Chelsea Pensioners to open a public heritage centre
The City Christmas Fair - in aid of Wellbeing in Women
TfL planning a new London Overground station in Barking
London's Alleys: Cloth Court, EC1
WWII air raid shelter discovered in southeast London
Euston station testing new departure display boards
The Woman in Black to close in the West End next March
National Rail strike announced for Sat 26th Nov
Greenwich to host exhibition of Dutch maritime paintings
Fuller's pubs offering pints for £1.77 to mark their 177th birthday
Tickets Alert: Shire horse carriage rides in Bushy Park
Fewer buildings on London's Heritage at Risk Register
London's Pocket Parks: Canonbury Square Gardens, N1
There's been an overnight rehearsal for the Lord Mayor's Show
Horror but not as you've seen it fills Somerset House
Tickets for the Battersea Power Station lift are now on sale
The transformation of Denmark Street and the Outernet
Tube Strike - avoid the London Underground on Thursday
Donatello's statue of David to go on show in London for the first time
Flash sale on Eurostar tickets this week
Two Turner paintings in London for the first time in over a century
A new tube map and cover art to mark the Elizabeth line changes
Free son et lumière show coming to the Tower of London
More tours of disused parts of the London Underground
London's Alleys: Gutter Lane, EC2
Elizabeth line links up the core tunnels to Heathrow and beyond
There's a London tube strike next week
National Rail strikes are cancelled
Flash sale on Elf the Musical tickets this weekend
A festival of modernism comes to London
Tickets Alert: Free visits to UCL's telescope observatory
Just one month left until the Museum of London closes
Callipygian Christmas tree decorations from the National Gallery
London's newest concert hall opens in Nine Elms
London's ice skating rinks for winter 2022/23
London's Pocket Parks: Owens Field, EC1
Wi-Fi upgrade for South Western Railway
The myths of Alexander the Great explored at the British Library
Better ventilation could be key for London Underground to manage air quality
Central London's free museum mile
London exhibitions to visit in November 2022
Simpsons Tavern, London's oldest chophouse forced to close
Tickets Alert: Tours of a drained canal lock
A second HS2 tunnel boring machine starts digging under London
October 2022
New housing development to sit next to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station
There's a WWII bombshell next to Bexleyheath police station
Rail firms warn about train strike disruption this weekend
London's Alleys: Marion's Way, SE1
Bank tube station just got a lot easier to use
Half price tickets at London's newest theatre
London Underground's smartphone ticket sales exceed pre-pandemic levels
The Elizabeth line will accept European Interrail tickets
Exhibition looks at the life of the surgeon who tended to Admiral Nelson
The church of St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories
Pantograph charged electric buses being tested in Southeast London
A gallery of cute robots fills Pitzhanger Manor
Upgrades planned for Clapham Junction station
National rail and London tube strike dates changed
London's Pocket Parks: Savoy Chapel Gardens, WC2
UK's largest ever pour of low-carbon concrete at HS2's Euston station site
Tickets Alert: Son-et-Lumiere to fill St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trains now more popular than planes for London to Edinburgh trips
London's Pocket Parks: Railway Fields, N4
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu at Tate Modern
Tickets Alert: Night at the Kilmorey Mausoleum
20 photos from the Elizabeth line's new Bond Street station
London's Alleys: Flitcroft Street, WC2
Colourised film footage of 1930s London
Routemaster bus tour raising money for Ukraine
Limited time offer sale on tickets to Matilda the Musical
Book review: London's Lost Department Stores
Government plans changes to strike laws to keep trains running
There's a large model railway at King's Cross station
Inside London's 350 year old Temple Bar
Refurbishment for Southeastern's Javelin HS1 trains
The muscial theatre comes to the V&A Museum
West End sales boosted by the opening of the Elizabeth line
London's Pocket Parks: Parsons Green, SW6
More national rail and tube strikes announced for November.
Calls for a ban on domestic flights to boost rail travel
Local councils to reclaim planning powers from the Olympic Park
Tickets Alert: Tours of Moor Park Mansion
New Elizabeth line timetable for November 2022
High Street Kensington tube station gets new entry route
Hammersmith Bridge getting a double-decker road bridge insert
Farwell tour for the British Rail Class 315 trains
Museum of London uncovers the hidden stories of people executed by the state
New entrance for Knightsbridge tube station
London's Alleys: Thomas More Walk, SW3
Islington's Union Chapel gets £1 million heritage grant
A special tube map is on display in the V&A Museum
The Flying Scotsman steam train is at King's Cross station this weekend
Only Fools and Horses theatre tickets from just £20
London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks to return this year
Christmas jumpers from London’s venues
Bank station's new escalators between DLR and Northern lines has opened
Ride a zip wire between two London skyscrapers
British Museum reveals the Rosetta rivalry at the heart of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Luton Airport railway opening date delayed
Free entry to the Old Operating Theatre on its 60th birthday
Consultation opens on redeveloping Stratford Station
London's Pocket Parks: Ufford Street Gardens, SE1
Vintage Routemaster bus to return to regular service in London
Winslow Homer: The sea and the war at the National Gallery
Cheap train fares from Greater Anglia
London's 2022 bonfire night firework displays
Testing TfL's new e-bike hire scheme
Look out for a spacecraft in St Pancras International station
Charles Dickens and Professor Pepper's ghost at the Dickens museum
Paddington Station returns Paddington Bear to Platform One
Heritage concerns over £1.5 billion development above Liverpool Street station
London's Alleys: Little Turnstile, WC1
Half price on "& Juliet" theatre tickets
Avanti West Coast given six months to fix its problems
Frameless - immersive art fills a cavernous Marble Arch basement
Free tours of the disused Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks
See a 72-foot space rocket in South Kensington next weekend
HS2 starts digging 26 miles of tunnel under London
Japan's woodworking skills shown off in Kensington
Science Museum offers a space trip to a science fiction spacecraft
Last chance to visit the Wellcome Collection's Medicine Man exhibition
Free visits to National Trust properties this autumn
Open day at the St Pancras waterpoint
Costume design exhibition opens at the BFI Southbank
The refurbishment of the 200-year old St John's Waterloo church
New exhibition tells the lost story of London's African orphans
Tickets Alert: Stand next to the Flying Scotsman at King's Cross
Tate's Cezanne blockbuster is full of fruit and fruity paintings
The Sidings - Waterloo station's deserted shopping mall
HS2 to relocate residents away from Euston building sites
There's a Doctor Who Cyberman in the Science Museum
London's Alleys: Little Green Street, NW5
September 2022
London's free exhibitions to visit in October 2022
Discounts on Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tickets
Just a tenth of the expected trains to run due to Saturday's rail strike
The beauty of the Apollo moon landing photos at the Royal Albert Hall
Dennis Severs' House will have its annual Christmas makeover
See the Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
Battersea Power Station to open with a lightning show
The City of London's oldest document is currently on public display
A new sculpture has appeared on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth
GWR launches "long weekend" train tickets
London's winter lights displays for 2022/23
Confirmed - Elizabeth line platforms at Bond Street station opening next month
London's Pocket Parks: Charterhouse Square, EC1
Modern community centre wraps around a century old lodge
National rail strikes on 1st, 5th, and 8th October
Apollo moon landing photos on display at the Royal Albert Hall
Elizabeth line reveals optimistic passenger numbers, but also software issues
National Gallery offering £1 tickets for the Lucian Freud exhibition
TfL's lowest paid contractors offered free transport in London
Monster tentacles to invade Leadenhall Market for Halloween
London's Alleys: Carey Lane, EC2
The Golden Key - a day of street festivals for the City of London
Sound and colour dazzle the senses as the V&A explores the Korean Wave
Offer on tickets to see Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre
Over 5 million trips on the Northern Line Extension in its first year
Yinka Ilori's bold patterned colours celebrated at Design Museum
Old sign on the Bank of England declaring "special limits"
Transport for London's boss, Andy Byford resigns
Day trips from London: Standen House and Garden
London bus drivers to go on indefinite strike next month
TfL receives £500 million funding support from the Mayor of London
Exhibition in a fire station shows off the London Fire Brigade's new typeface
The delayed Maria Bartuszová exhibition opens at the Tate Modern
London's Pocket Parks: Vaughan Way Wildlife Garden, E1
More train strikes announced for October
A church organ has appeared in London Bridge station
A free roof garden has opened in central London
London's Alleys: Archibald Mews, W1
Tickets Alert: Visit the Post-Modernist "Cosmic House" in Holland Park
Cinemas to show the State Funeral on Monday
Exclusive discounts on Back to the Future musical tickets from £20
London mainline railway stations to stay open overnight for the State Funeral
Network Rail testing lasers to clear leaves from the railway tracks
The Queue: Eight hours to see the Queen
Old Brompton bikes turned into furniture
West London's HS2 construction site reaches landscape restoration milestone
Find the moved John F Kennedy Memorial
More trains to London for the Queen's Lying in State and the funeral
The remarkable concrete interior of the LSE's Marshall Building
More Mail Rail tunnel walks with an extra bit for Christmas
Free railway arches offered to charities
Pay a visit to Bloomsbury's "Museum of Sex Objects"
Visiting the derelict New River Head buildings
Elizabeth line trains to run this Sunday for the National Mourning
A new museum planned about London's insurance markets
London's Alleys: Ludgate Square, EC4
Rail travel expected to be busy for the Queen's Lying in State
The King's Proclamation to be read in London councils
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tickets now from just £15
Greater Anglia running longer trains between Liverpool Street and Hertford East
Guided tours of Harrow school in October
Derelict railway arches to be brought back into use
King's Cross's Keystone Crescent, Europe's smallest crescent
TfL to merge Edgware bus station into shopping centre redevelopment
Tunnelling starts on East London's Silvertown road tunnel
Jurassic World exhibition opens at the ExCeL London
Step-free access completed at East Grinstead station
Embankment's 400-year old York Water Gate
Ilford station's new ticket hall finally opens
A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain coming to Somerset House
An ex-military base offers tours of the National Maritime Museum archive
Step free access coming to Streatham station
Chiltern Railways founder gets a bronze statue at Marylebone station
Book Review: In The Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral
DLR revamps timetables to offer more frequent trains
London's Alleys: Penton Grove, N1
Elizabeth line to open early from Monday
Off-peak train fares between Heathrow and central London scrapped
Colourscape returns to Clapham Common
Westminster Abbey to open late during September
Half-price tickets for Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
Heritage protection for 1960s Fulham fibreglass panels
Romford station's Elizabeth line upgrades are finally completed
London exhibitions to visit in September 2022
A new sponsor is announced for the London Cable Car
Battersea Power Station confirms its opening date
Strand Lane's "Roman Baths" open day
August 2022
New archaeology trail around HS2's Ruislip building site
Tours of the ancient Lincoln's Inn have resumed
National rail strikes to take place in September
Watford and Herts councils make fresh push for Watford to Croxley link
London's Pocket Parks: 25 Cannon Street, EC4 -- Redux
Transport for London accepts 19-month funding deal from the government
Candlelit tours of the Charterhouse Monastery this winter
TfL takes final decision over government funding deal
Lunches in the City of London's livery halls
Kentish Town tube station's "secret" garden
Postal delays nearly drove Charles Dickens from his home
Cinema tickets for £3 on Saturday
British Museum displays shattered glass from the Beirut explosion
Tours of the Royal Courts of Justice have resumed
London's Alleys: George Yard, EC3
Public tours of the UK's largest working sailing ship, SV Tenacious
Sale on Only Fools and Horses theatre tickets from just £20
Foreign embassy congestion charge debt to TfL tops £142 million
Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer is visiting London
TfL faces difficult decision over government funding offer
Kew Garden's winter light show returns for its 10th anniversary
An updated poster map of London's railways
Canada House tours have restarted
The unexpected interior of a Mayfair Church
Tower Bridge's behind the scenes tours resume in November
At the British Museum - Coffee culture in the Islamic world
A LEGO model of a London Underground station needs your votes
Elephant and Castle's new tree house pavilion
Gaia - a large glowing earth will float inside Southwark Cathedral
Pre-booking for Battersea Power Station's chimney lift visitor attraction
Get the Barbican Blues – with a music exhibition
Elizabeth line to run through Paddington and Liverpool Street from November
Latest photos of the new Brent Cross West station
Winter Wonderland returns to Hyde Park
Maps of historic Lambeth go on display at Lambeth Palace Library
See a steam train covered in Christmas lights this winter
Woman killed after road accident blocks the Piccadilly line
London's Alleys: Clarges Mews, W1
Vintage Intercity train offers a rival to Avanti West Coast
Tickets for 'Anything Goes' at the Barbican now from just £20
The Architecture The Railways Built is back for a 4th series
Final chance to visit the Carters Steam Fair
Exhibition - turning a Japanese island into an art centre
The London Month of the Dead returns with spooky tours and talks
London Underground testing new track fastenings to reduce noise
The East London park filled with WW2 fortifications
Tickets Alert: Tours of Goldsmiths Hall
Open House London bookings open next week
Kurt Geiger's London Underground inspired accessories
There's a "rugby ball" in the Museum of London's Harry Kane football exhibition
London's transport likely to see 10% hike in fares in 2023
Day trip from London - to Winchelsea for cellar tours and Camber Castle
City commuter numbers continue to rise following the pandemic
St Matthias - London's only interregnum church
Halloween trail coming to Chiswick Park and Gardens
There's a medieval wall inside a London office that you can visit
Walk the Elizabeth line for charity
More towers planned for Blackfriars Bridge site
Tube and National Rail strikes later this week
The King's Observatory in Richmond is opening for tours
Your chance to walk inside a hot air balloon
London's Alleys: Churchway, NW1
Discounted tickets to see Grease at the Dominion Theatre
The short-lived London Supperette Car Company
TfL's cycle hire costs to go up next month
New exhibition reveals Charles Dickens's hunt for a haunted house
One month to go until Open House London
South Western Railway tests audio guides for people with vision difficulties
Reframed: The Woman in the Window at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Arty hot air balloon to fly over Thamesmead
Lucian Freud exhibition of his paintings
Book Review: The hidden origins of Londons pub names
A summer ramble along the disused Bishop's Stortford to Braintree railway line
TfL could face sharp cuts to services as funding negotiations drag on
More cycle storage spaces for Hackney
Train drivers strike this Saturday affecting most services
Last chance to see Trafalgar Square's giant ice cream
Finsbury's modernist health centre getting £1.25 million restoration
Plans to demolish Wimbledon Chase station entrance for new flats
Plans to improve the pedestrian space outside Waterloo station
Raffle to win a range of special railway prizes
The Alexander Fleming Museum has reopened
London's Alleys: Virgil Place, W1
There will be a South Park pop-up store in Soho for three days
Go for a swim in Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake
August bank holiday railway disruptions announced
London bus drivers to strike on same day as tube strike
Cheap tickets to see Bad Jews at the Arts Theatre
Free tours of Thames Water's grand pumping stations
Three month trial offer on the National Art Pass
The Iron Throne comes to the Tower of London
London Zoo moves monkeys into its aviary
London's railway stations going green with pocket gardens
Network Rail changes plans for step-free access at Plumstead station
Special coach service for Imber Bus visitors
Square Mile to be filled with fairs, theatre and subterranean adventures
Hiroshima drawings on show in London
TfL's funding package with the government has expired
Visit a viewing platform in North Greenwich
Get your London County Council branded socks
The Lexi, a community cinema rises from the ashes of fire
UK's largest tunnel cutting head lowered into its London shaft
Pain Relief in the Wellington Arch
More tour dates to see inside the 230 year old Trinity House
See HS2's new tunnel being dug under Euston station
Hear a WW2 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine powered up this weekend
London exhibitions to visit in August 2022
Museum of London raises £7 million towards its new Smithfield home
GWR train gets Euro 2022 Lionesses tribute
Tickets Alert: Take a trip in a vintage tube train
Delays in reopening the railway line between Brixton and Beckenham Junction
London's Alleys: Broad Street Avenue, EC2
July 2022
Visit the Götheborg - a Swedish tall sailing ship
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen on a big screen
Special offer on tickets to see Jersey Boys at the Trafalgar Theatre
Tours of a derelict building in Islington
Earl's Court tube station's historic destination signs have been restored
Buckingham Palace opens its doors with a show of showy jewels
An open-air exhibition of London’s parks and open spaces
It's time to start booking your Heritage Open Day tours
London Underground's Piccadilly line will resume Night Tube duties this weekend
Trafalgar Square to screen the EURO 2022 final on Sunday
Take a boat trip through a tunnel under Islington town centre
Train drivers strike to hit London on Saturday
Plans open a disused railway bridge to pedestrians
TfL offering transport jobs training to neurodivergent people
Behind the scenes tours of Shepherd's Bush tube station
Tube Strike - another London Underground strike called for next month
The strange history of the Philpot Lane mice
Giant paper boats and planes fill a North Greenwich gallery
The architecture of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition
Brompton's folding bikes can now be hired with a simple daily charge
TfL's office development at Bank tube station gets taller
London's Pocket Parks: Marchmont Community Garden, WC1
GWR tests live train system monitoring to reduce maintenance downtime
Feminine power the divine to the demonic at the British Museum
Look out for a nighttime flotilla of glowing boats on the Thames
London's Alleys: Leigh Place, EC1
You can now buy old London Underground strap hangers
Government offers funding settlement to keep London's transport moving
Two national rail strikes next week
Exclusive prices on Wicked tickets
TfL testing a world-first idea for cooling the London Underground
Plans to uncover a buried brook in Dagenham
Solar flares could cause delays on the railways
Architecture tours from Open City
Hallyu! The Korean Wave comes to the V&A Museum this autumn
London Victoria station set for £30 million upgrade
Tickets Alert: Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
Silent London Underground and Metropolis with live music
Cyberman to open the BBC's centenary display at the Science Museum
Night Tube strike suspended after deal between RMT and TfL
Sculpture in the City of London - a walking trail of public art
Two Turner paintings returning to London for the first time in a century
A wet labyrinth fills a central London courtyard
Brunel Museum awarded £1.85 million for expansion plans
London's Pocket Parks: Abingdon Green, SW1
LEGO model of a London square with a magical twist
Plans to restore derelict railway arches next to the Emirates stadium
London's newest station - Barking Riverside opened this morning
London's Alleys: Old Fish Street Hill, EC4
Rail firms asking people to avoid travelling during the heatwave
Now you can go for a swim in Canary Wharf's docks
Half-price sale on tickets to South Pacific at Sadler's Wells
London's stuffed walrus museum wins top museum prize
Fundraising to repair South London's narrow-gauge railway
Plans to convert the historic Custom House into a hotel blocked
Aslef train drivers to strike on Saturday 30th July
Tickets Alert: State apartment tours of Parliament's Speaker’s House
Inside the 200-year old St Pancras New Church
Plans for a new City of London skyscraper shown off
Another national rail strike is set for Wednesday 27th July
Cornelia Parker fills the Tate Britain with an eclectic mix of art
Transport for London gets an extension to its government funding deal
Network Rail planting trees to reduce graffiti
London's Pocket Parks: Terrace Gardens, TW10
Last chance to ride Greater Anglia’s old Class 317 trains this weekend
A campaign to create a wild swimming water park in East London
Save money on TfL Cycle Hire with an annual pass
The ancient Dunmow Flitch Trials took place last weekend
London Overground train drivers vote to strike
Behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum of London in September
A gin for the Regent's Park Theatre's 90th anniversary
London's Alleys: Matrimony Place, SW4
London Overground's Barking Riverside extension will open next Monday
A Blue Plaque to remember the Match Girls' Strike
Inside the revamped Royal College of Surgeons
Tickets Alert: Chess the Musical extra date added
London Underground's mobile phone coverage to expand by end of this year
The V&A opens its landmark Africa Fashion exhibition
Late summer openings at Greenwich's Painted Hall
Wallace Collection putting on a Richard III exhibition
Around 200,000 journeys each day in the new Elizabeth line tunnels
Elizabeth line upgrade for the Pudding Mill power supplies
Freddie Mercury’s stamp album going on display
New entrance opens at Imperial Wharf railway station
London's Pocket Parks: Distaff Lane Garden, EC4
London City Airport wants more flights at weekends
British Museum celebrates 200 years of reading Egyptian hieroglyphs
Bollardology - an unexpected history of London's street bollards
Derelict Silvertown development gets the go ahead, again
A second entrance opens at Hackney Central railway station
See Greenwich's painted hall sketches in the V&A
Bluebell heritage railway planning a western extension
Amazon switching to e-bikes for London deliveries
London's Alleys: Oldbury Place, W1
London's Pocket Parks: Eden Garden, SW4
London exhibitions to visit in July 2022
Flash sale on Phantom of the Opera tickets this weekend
June 2022
Train strike on Greater Anglia trains this Saturday
Visiting Rayleigh - A castle, a cottage, a church, and a windmill
Open House London's 2022 guide is now available for preorder
St Paul's Cathedral to stay open on four evenings this summer
A £1 billion railway upgrade between King's Cross to Grantham
Cart Marking ceremony returns to London next month
London Underground resuming the Northern line's Night tube
There's a vacancy for a Beefeater at the Tower of London
Picasso & Ingres: Face to Face at the National Gallery
A guide to finding cheap London theatre tickets
Setback for railway upgrade between Watford and St Albans
Battersea Power Station's restored control room revealed
Transport for London seeking renewable electricity for its trains
Over 4,000 London venues now offer free water refills
First of the new footbridges installed at West Ham station
A Jubilee exhibition in St Paul's Cathedral
The historic Hall Place house reopens for tours
There's a drivers strike on the London trams this week
The surreal experience that is Imberbus returns in August
London's Alleys: Albany Court Yard, W1
The 50th anniversary of London Underground's Bakerloo line trains
Go on a tour of the Wimbledon tennis courts and museum
TfL's funding deal gets another extension
WW2 Lancaster bomber to fly over London on Sunday
Wandsworth Town railway station to get step-free access
An artifical hop field has sprouted at the Southbank Centre
Elizabeth line to Ebbsfleet extension could cost £3.2 billion
See inside the remarkable 575 Wandsworth Road
The National Gallery's 200th anniversary plans
Abseil down the side of St Thomas' Hospital
New images of a rebuilt Stanford-le-Hope station shown off
Food for a fiver around Carnaby Street
GWR's rail franchise extended to 2025
Going on a tour of Harrow School
HS2 to improve mobile phone coverage along the railway
Plans to demolish M&S Oxford Street put on hold
The Museum of London gets grimey
Hamilton extended and is now booking up to December
South Kensington's tube station oversite development is back
Consultation on plans to redevelop the Museum of London site
Summer tours of the Aga Khan Centre in King's Cross
TfL planning new housing development next to Barkingside tube station
London's Alleys: Snow Hill Court, EC1
Special rail timetable published for the national railway strike
Opinion: It's time to stop arguing about funding London's transport
Where to watch Wimbledon 2022 on outdoor screens
Flash sale on tickets to Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show
Elizabeth line trains hitting 98% reliability
Tickets Alert: Frogmore House and garden open days
Rail travel recovering from the pandemic, but season ticket sales still weak
Approval for Grosvenor Square park redevelopment
The mysterious floating coffin of Pinner
TfL delays contactless payments upgrade due to Ukraine war
Four London pubs get heritage listing protection
A feast of Tiffany diamonds has filled the Saatchi Gallery
Tickets Alert: See a steam train on the DLR
Immaculate Art Deco home in South London gets preservation order
Tickets Alert: Tours of sewage treatment works
Exhibition looks at The Queen on postage stamps
Falklands War display opens at the Poppy Factory
There's a DALEK in Hammersmith for a few weeks
London Overground's Barking Riverside station to open this summer
Look out for a fleet of heritage coaches on Friday morning
London's Alleys: Ladbroke Mews, W11
Tickets Alert: Star Trek stage-set appearing in Piccadilly Circus
Leyton tube station upgrade gets additional funding
Pay a visit to the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret
Half-price tickets to see Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
First test train to use a new signalling system on the Northern City Line
London's Public Art: Allies, W1
A preview of Boston Manor House's impressive restoration
Five million commemorative Pride 50p coins going into general circulation
Gold glitters at this British Library exhibition
First release of Heritage Open Days venues that need prebooking
Elizabeth Line trains to call at Heathrow's T4 from next week
Improved links between HS1 and HS2 railways could reduce air travel
National and London rail strikes announced by the RMT union
Funding needed to restore the Metropolitan No.1 steam train
The UK's first Stolperstein or “stumbling stone” has been installed in Westminster
A new "satnav" for cyclists launched
TfL's revenues recovering from the pandemic
Photos of The Queen covered in pink and yellow paint
British Museum shows off the first coin portrait of The Queen
The tribute to the Euston Arch has appeared at Euston station
London's Alleys: Hanover Place, WC2
HS2 starts construction of the UK's longest railway bridge
London facing a major tube strike on Monday 6th June
Save on tickets for "Anything Goes" at the Barbican
London exhibitions to visit in June 2022
Rail closures around New Cross station in August
Large military flypast over London today
London's Public Art: A giant bath plug in Paddington
An outstanding Jubilee exhibition of tiaras and paintings at Sotheby's
West End shows to perform for free in Trafalgar Square
Visit one of London's last aristocratic mansions - Spencer House
May 2022
Stanmore tube station step-free plans put on hold
The Dunmow Flitch Trial takes place in July
New Crossrail / Elizabeth line documentary is coming to BBC2
Today's the 7th anniversary of the launch of TfL Rail
Two more London Cabmen's shelters given listed status
Tickets Alert: Take sheep across London Bridge
Paddington Station's new Elizabeth to Bakerloo line tunnel
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of Leighton House
Pints of IPA beer for 6p today only
London's Alleys: Hyde Park Gardens Mews, W2
Over a million trips on the Elizabeth line in its first week
A GWR train has been named after the WWII codebreaker Alan Turing
Dippy the dinosaur returns to the Natural History Museum
London Underground tube strike called off
Save on tickets to Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man
Selective tube station closures announced for the Jubilee weekend
Piccadilly line trains to call at South Kensington tube station again
Atmospheric photos show a lost world of British industry
Transport for London seeking a partner for its property developments
Science Museum's cancer exhibition offers a hopeful view of the future
South London's Petts Wood station to get step-free access
Exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Heath Robinson's birth
SOLD OUT - Free entry to the London Transport Museum over the Jubilee weekend
Catch a London Overground train to Battersea Park station
A Queer Britain museum gallery has opened in King's Cross
65,000 people rode the Elizabeth line this morning
Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers, goes on show
Camden Highline moves forward with plans to open up a disused railway
Excited crowds cheer the opening of the Elizabeth line
The Great British Beer Festival returns in August
Elizabeth line to add over 300 new advertising sites to London
London tube station staff to go on strike
Unusual tanker ship passing through Tower Bridge
London's Alleys: Crossrail Path, SE18
Guided tours of the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks
Today's the 125th anniversary of opening the Blackwall Tunnel
Elizabeth line trains are too long for some stations
Mayfield's lavender fields reopen next month
The Queen's bling to fill Buckingham Palace this summer
Half price tickets to see Jersey Boys during the week
Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator
River Thames bridges to have a Platinum Jubilee light show
The Elizabeth line has appeared on the new tube map
The Royal Mint's new LGBTQ+ 50p coin will be legal tender
Marble Hill reopens after seven years of restoration work
Polo in the Park returns next month
Two tube stations to strike over Jubilee weekend
Snails on stones -- art in Aldgate
Large military flypast over London for the Platinum Jubilee
The Elizabeth line could be carbon negative in a decade
The latest release of London Underground themed whiskies
Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Elizabeth line
Guildhall exhibiton looks at art that's been inspired by art
Outdoor film screenings in London this summer
Building the Elizabeth line - in photos
The Jubilee line's Night Tube returns this weekend
See Doctor Who on the big screen at the Barbican
Stockwell bus garage open day and tours
London's Alleys: Talbot Yard, SE1
Photos from Bank tube station's huge new platforms
Tickets Alert: London’s Open Garden Weekend
Tiffany archive coming to the Saatchi Gallery
Harry Kane exhibition opening at the Museum of London
TfL to expand contactless payments outside London
Victorian peepshow of the Thames Tunnel up for sale
Elizabeth line gets final authorisation to open
Look out for these limited edition Elizabeth line branded Oyster Cards
The Tower of London's Triennial Battle with All Hallows Church
A is for Atlas: Wonders of Maps and Mapping
Chelesea's unusual Moravian burial ground
Potter mania at the V&A Museum
A Middle-Earth style map of London
Cezanne comes to the Tate Modern
How the modern colour purple was invented in London
In a Pot of Hot Soup - An exhibition of contemporary Nigerian art
Norwood Junction station upgrade plans have been delayed
London Hat Week returns in August
TfL debt ratings downgraded by Moody's
London's WW2 experiment with coal-powered buses
TfL seeks bidders for Elephant & Castle station upgrade
Tickets Alert: Tours of the new Museum of London site in Smithfield
Don't forget to buy your Elizabeth line souvenirs
London Underground's Northern line bank branch to reopen next Monday
London Festival of Architecture returns this summer
London's Alleys: Savoy Buildings, WC2
Jubilee line Night Tube strikes by the RMT union
Flaneurs promenading around London in their Sunday Best on a Saturday
Signalling upgrade comes online on Great Northern line into Moorgate
Tickets Alert: Cycle around Kew Gardens
A day trip to - Ramsgate for Tunnels, Trains and Toys
Military flypast over central London tomorrow
More dates announced for tours of the Poppy Factory
Crossrail confirms Elizabeth line's opening date
London's Pocket Parks: Southbank roof garden, SE1
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Epping Ongar Railway
Behind the scenes tours of Network Rail stations
Rare opportunity to see conservation in action in Greenwich's ORNC Chapel
ITV's 1990s London Underground quiz show
Tickets Alert: Early mornings at the Sky Garden
Tickets Alert: Visit to Chevening House gardens
London's Alleys: Lamont Road Passage, SW10
April 2022
One of our dinosaurs isn't missing - Dippy's back at the Natural History Museum
Crossrail's funding gap increases
London Underground to resume normal Met line services next week
Discounts on tickets to The Tina Turner Musical
Tickets for the Last Night of the Proms 2022
Bank of England museum reveals an unexpected link to the slave trade
Barbican Centre to spend up to £150 million on major revamp
Visit the de Havilland Aircraft Museum
Exhibition - Outwitting Cancer
Retro games arcade coming to central London
Exhibition - The dark genius that's Walter Sickert
London's Pocket Parks: Alfred Place Gardens, WC1
New exhibition showcasing London’s Olympic legacy
Virtual tours of Elizabeth line stations
See hot air balloons drifting over central London
Sir John Soane's Museum drops pre-booking requirement
Episode guide to Series Two of "Secrets of the London Underground"
Exhibition: ode to MEATYARD at the Horse Hospital
Tickets Alert: Spencer House and garden tours
WW2 warship HQS Wellington opens to the public
London's Alleys: Bow Lane, EC4
Tickets Alert: Tours of Eton College
A big tree made from little trees for the Platinum Jubilee
Half-price tickets to Doctor Who: Time Fracture
London Underground sends first test trains through Bank station upgrade
M&S Oxford Street store demolition put on hold
TfL puts live travel updates on your smartphone homescreen
London Zoo to open late for adults only summer evenings
Tickets Alert: Tours on top of Westminster Abbey's roof
A Day Trip to - Hythe and Dungeness
Tickets Alert: Visit the Reigate Caves
See the Magnificent Maps of London
Florence Nightingale Museum reopening with Crimean War display
Unbuilt London: The Battersea Bullet train
The RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show
Campaign seeks to save Angel's postmodern office block
Tours of the historic rooms in St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Another attempt to resurrect the Watford to Croxley rail link
Tickets Alert: Early hours tours of the British Museum
Platinum Jubilee events in London
Crossrail's predicted Elizabeth line journey times
London's Alleys: Durweston Mews, W1
Transport themed socks from the London Sock Exchange
Discount sale on The Mousetrap tickets
The Goodyear Blimp will be flying over London next month
Jubilee line extension gets permanent mobile phone coverage
Tickets Alert: Take a trip through the Islington tunnel
Liverpool Street's Edwardian Arcade is to become a Boxpark
By law, Easter was supposed to be last weekend
Leicester Square to get the world's largest LEGO store
Bank of England Museum reopens with improved opening hours
Science Museum's computer games festival gets extended
Big savings on British Rail train tickets
You really should pay a visit to Watford's 1940s experience
Restoration of the Crystal Palace Subway has started
London Underground adds African inspired tube roundel to Westminster station
From Royals to Paul McCartney - 150 years of needlework on display
British Library extension to include Crossrail 2 tunnels
Superheroes come to the Foundling museum
Campaign to let the public see the Thames Tunnel watercolours
Canary Wharf to open up its docks for leisure
London's Alleys: Bennett's Yard, SW1
London Underground is cutting Met line trains on Monday due to faults
Raphael glows in the National Gallery's delayed blockbuster exhibition
Tickets Alert: Historic tours of Waterloo Station
TfL warns of travel disruptions over the Easter weekend
Night Tube to be restored to the Jubilee line next month
Save on tickets to see Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella
Cargo bike hire scheme coming to Wandsworth
Concept train interior offers more space for luggage
A colourful confection of clothing at the V&A Museum
London's Pocket Parks: Bramber Green, WC1
M&S Oxford Street demolition decision being reviewed
Ealing's derelict Twyford Abbey could be restored
The City of London has its own official Tartan
Challenging Bakerloo line tunnel completed at Paddington station
Cruise ships are returning to London in 2022
3,500 homes to be built next to Dagenham Dock railway station
Behind the scenes at the new Museum of London
Minimum Oyster card top-up halved to £10 from £20
Strawberry Hill House campaigning to bring Horace home
Tickets Alert: Take a trip on Southern Railway's last Class 455 train
London's Alleys: Bath Court, EC1
Booking opens for London Craft Week
Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer at the BFI mezzanine
Save on tickets to Anything Goes at the Barbican
Buckingham Palace tube station to open for the Queen's Jubilee
March 2022
Flats on Arnos Grove tube station car park approved on appeal
TfL testing a chemical-free way of eliminating Japanese Knotweed
New exhibition looks at the fascinating (yes, really) history of the Post Code
Golden Canaletto's glow in this National Maritime Museum exhibition
Slave trader, Robert Milligan's statue gifted to the Museum of London
TfL style contactless payments extended to Windsor and Henley
Rail upgrade to increase train frequency at Meridian Water station
Tickets Alert: Tours of St Alfege Greenwich's church crypt
Behind the scenes at Bank tube station's huge upgrade project
Govia Thameslink Railway gets extended rail contract
Perivale Wood's bluebells open days announced
Have you used Charing Cross station's rear entrance?
London's Alleys: Lombard Court, EC3
City of London's oldest map to go on display
Over 2 million journeys since the Northern line extension opened
National Gallery explores artisic damage in new sculpture show
Up to half-price off old London Underground collectables
Becket Pageant for London coming to the Guildhall
Bank tube station upgrade reaches half-way mark
A day trip to - Longford Castle, Salisbury
Thames Clippers river bus expanding to Barking Riverside this May
Princes Risborough railway signal box open day
Behind the scenes at HS2's gigantic Colne Valley viaduct factory
New office block planned for Bankside area
HS2's tunnelling machines reach Chalfont St Peter ventilation shaft
Demolition of north London's "Intimate Theatre" is approved
Crossrail update on the Elizabeth line's opening plans
Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens
Whitechapel tube station gets Bengali language signs
Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and gardens
London's Alleys: Green's Court, W1
Beautiful videos from the driver's eye view of Britain’s railway journeys
Female spiritual beings are coming to the British Museum
Design contract awarded to extend railway arches Low Line concept
Discounts on Only Fools and Horses stageshow tickets
Tube stations recovering to pre-pandemic traffic levels
Tours of a Roman London bathhouse resume next month
Harrow-on-the Hill station gets step-free access with new lifts
Former Southeastern franchise fined for hiding HS1 funding
See a large scale model of King's Cross
London Transport Museum depot opens its posters archive
V&A Museum to return to all-week opening
Discounts on tickets to visit Hatfield House
Visit London's Ukrainian Cathedral
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
Cold war bunker - 2022 open days announced
Priceless Japanese screens repaired with Victorian train timetables go on display
Progress on unlocking Beam Park station in East London
Tate's Infinity Mirror Rooms exhibition extended to next year
Cockfosters tube station flats development blocked
London museums secure government funding for improvements
London's Alleys: Peary Place, E2
Vintage buses to run in London for Red Nose Day
Go behind the scenes of the Royal Court theatre
National Lottery offering disounts and free entry to museums
Dates for Dorney Court's public open days confirmed
Floating planet Mars to fill the Natural History Museum next week
Attend a lecture in the City of London's Mansion House
No trains out of London Euston station over Easter 2022
London's Pocket Parks: Talbot Yard courtyard, SE1
Guided tours of the Aga Khan Centre have resumed
BBC's Antiques Roadshow filming at Clissold Park, North London
Charles Dickens museum entry prices rising in April
HS2 shows off London Euston station designs
Advance warning of Brixton to Beckenham Junction rail closure in July
Take a tour of the Poppy Factory
Hither Green station set for a step-free upgrade with new lifts and footbridge
A sneak preview of London's new Elizabeth line railway
House and Garden tours of the medieval Charterhouse
Discounts on Zippos Circus tickets
TfL plans to refurbish its Kilburn railway arches
London's Alleys: Hunt's Court, WC2
Photos from Crossrail's trial train evacuations
Horse and Carriage rides over Easter weekend
Tours of the Kingsway tram tunnel announced
Save up to £47 on Grease the Musical tickets
Loads of tube train toys coming to shops this year
Crossrail requires final £150 million to complete the Elizabeth line
60 years of gay ephemera go on display at the Barbican
London's Pocket Parks: Paddington Green, W2
London's second tube strike set for Thursday
Mating toads closes a Richmond road
Surrey Quays station upgrade consulation opens
180th anniversary of the closure of the Kensington racecourse
A chance to climb the Cutty Sark rigging
Tickets Alert: Science Museum Lates goes Greek this month
Ten exhibitions to visit in London during March
Network Rail submits application for Peckham Rye station upgrade
February 2022
Ticket Alerts: Chelsea Pensioner tours
Upgrade to reduce congestion at London Bridge tube station
Commuters urged to avoid the tube this week due to tube strike
London's Alleys: Counter Court, SE1
Book a day-trip by steam train in 2022
Discounts on Neil Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane"
Tours of a restored neo-gothic church - St Mary Magdalene Paddington
TfL secures short-term funding deal from the government
The Tower of London moat is getting a slide
Tickets Alert: State Apartments tours in Parliament's Speaker’s House
London Underground tube strike for Tuesday and Thursday next week
TfL secures deal to build new Elephant and Castle station entrance
Free booklet about the Elizabeth line
Luxury cars to fill the RAF Museum
TfL dropping the requirement to wear face masks from Thursday
Cineworld and Picturehouse cinemas offering films for £3
London's Pocket Parks: St Paul's Cathedral Chapter House, EC4
Eridge railway station gets step-free access
Remarkable Roman mosaic discovered in Southwark
Severndroog Castle reopens this Sunday
London Underground's experimental porthole tube train
TfL expected to drop face mask mandate on London Transport shortly
Fish and chips on a steam train
There's a museum in a telephone box
Finchley Road development moves to planning phase
London's Alleys: The Watford Way subway, NW7
Transport for London warns of bankruptcy during government funding talks
Discount tickets to see The Mousetrap
One third off Railcards with Trainline this month
New student accommodation approved for the Square Mile
DLR extension to Thamesmead raised in Parliament
Visit the Royal College of Physicians museum
South London train depot to be covered in solar panels
Kennington's 1970s skate park is to be restored
British Museum's Stonehenge exhibition is eye-poppingly wonderful
Ex-London Underground trains to be tested on the Greenford branch line
Sigmund Freud's chinese collection goes on display
Tickets Alert: Visit the Chatley Heath semaphore tower
Southwark's dog on a pole with a bowl -- and Charles Dickens
Tickets Alert: James Bond and Dune on IMAX at the Science Musem
Passengers evacuated from an Elizabeth line train in test operation
TfL fares to rise by nearly 5% in two weeks time
London's Alleys: Bear Gardens, SE1
Fleet of new electric buses coming to Route 63
Canaletto’s largest painting commission coming to London
Stephen Hawkings exhibition opens at the Science Museum
Construction of HS2's Colne Valley viaduct segments has started
Gainsborough's Blue Boy returns to London
Museum of London is to close for 3 years from this December
Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean workforce
Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car show
See some lions lounging around Waterloo
More dates added to walk through the Mail Rail tunnels
A visit to the Sherlock Holmes museum
Burnham station completes Elizabeth line upgrades
Major cancer exhibition coming to the Science Museum
Wapping park extension to sit on top of a sewer
Unbuilt London: The Edgware Road and Victoria railway
Housing development next to planned Overground station gets approved
Haggerston's derelict swimming baths building to be restored
Tickets Alert: Vintage computer games at the Science Museum
Approval for flats to be built on Cockfosters station car park
London's Alleys: St Dunstan's Court, EC4
London's ceremonial gun salutes during 2022
TfL gets another extension to its government funding deal
Guinness setting up a Covent Garden brewery
Cheap tickets to Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera
Tube strike announced for the London Underground
Book - Tube station typologies 1924-1961
London's public transport faces years of managed decline
Uber Boats offering a Gravesend/Tilbury to London service this half-term
Eight more cycle hire locations coming to Southwark
Crossrail now "tangibly close" to opening
Plans to improve the street outside Nine Elms tube station
Tours of the UK's Supreme Court
The unexpected interior of the City Temple
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who Revelation of the Daleks
Nunhead Cemetery's derelict lodge set for restoration
Ten exhibitions to visit in London during February
Have a play with TfL's property assets map
January 2022
Tickets Alert: Spring tours of Buckingham Palace gardens
Westminster council pauses plans to scrap gas streetlights
A trip in a London bus through military lands - Imberbus returns for 2022
London's Alleys: May's Court, WC2
Tickets Alert: Walk along the bottom of an empty canal
Discounted tickets for Death Drop: A Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery
Soho's Harry Potter emporium - the House of MinaLima
One night only - electronic music at the London Coliseum
Camden Market offering unlimited meals for £5 each
HS2 testing building piles that can suck heat out of the ground
Tours of Aldwych's disused tube station resume
200th anniversary of London's oldest surviving surgical theatre
Exhibition shows off the electronic music legacy of Thomas Leer and Robert Rental
Tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show
A chance to climb up the Cutty Sark sailing masts
The Marquess of Westminster drinking fountain
America in Crisis - Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery
Crossrail hands control of Canary Wharf's Elizabeth line station to TfL
HRH The Prince of Wales’s Watercolours exhibition
Tickets alert: Meet a holographic David Attenborough
Exhibition about the Northern line extension that wasn't built
Tickets Alert: Tours of Longford Castle
LGBTQ+ museum to open in King's Cross this Spring
Ladywell's derelict Victorian swimming pool to be restored
London's Alleys: Arthur Street, EC4
Cheap Saturday Night Fever tickets on Sundays
Tube stations trialling services for cyclists and home storage
Visit a museum inside the Foulness military firing range
Superheroes to go on display at the Foundling Museum
Piccadilly line moquette clothing from adidas and Arsenal
The Troxy - East London's art-deco gem
Elizabeth line's Bond Street station still 3-months behind schedule
Illuminated River photography competition
Check out the huge new train departure board at London Victoria station
London to keep mandatory face-coverings on public transport
Museum homes for your Zoom backgrounds
See inside St Mary's Cadogan Street
Kew Gardens for a Quid if you receive Universal Credit or Pension Credit
Crossrail starting final phase of Trial Operations ahead of opening
Inspector Sands and why the London Underground keeps asking for him
Tickets Alert: London's Open Garden Weekend
East-End London's last Victorian funeral parlour to be restored
London's Alleys: Graces Alley, E1
Mayor of London warns of threat to jobs if TfL funding deal not settled
Rare photos of The Jam and Paul Weller at the Barbican
Charterhouse tours by Candlelight
Plans to improve railway arches through Lambeth and Wandsworth
London's cycle hire scheme had busiest year ever
Confusion over future of Beam Park station in East London
New plans for the Museum of London site
London's Pocket Parks: Arnold Estate, SE1
Tickets Alert: Immersive event inside the Cabinet War Rooms
See over 600 varieties of snowdrops at Thenford Arboretum
Photos from inside Westminster Abbey
Crystal Palace's Victorian subway gets approval for restoration
Plans for an additional Elizabeth line station in Berkshire
Stephen Hawking's office going on display at the Science Museum
The South Kensington subway - a history
Tickets for Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2022
Green Park tube station renamed Green Planet for a BBC TV promo
Crossrail pushing hard for a March opening date
London's Alleys: Sans Walk, EC1
An unexpected history in the stone benches outside Kensington's museums
A new tube map has been published
Tube union starts first of 6-months of strikes this evening
The Black Locomotive - a curious Crossrail story
Have you caught a train to London International CIV?
St Mary Moorfields - the City's only Roman Catholic church
Last chance to visit Bank tube station before Northern line closure
See old fashioned travel display boards at the Barbican
Waterloo & City line to resume peak-hours service next week
London's Pocket Parks: Greenwood Theatre Garden, SE1
Plans for NHS Covid memorial in Postman's Park
London Zoo is counting its animals
Winter lights festival coming to Canary Wharf
Bermondsey Tube station is still unfinished
Sudbury Hill tube station goes step-free with new lifts
See hundreds of English Civil War reinactors march down The Mall
London's Alleys: Saracen's Head Yard, EC3
How to get 27 days away from work for 10 days of holiday time in 2022
December 2021
Your most read articles on ianVisits during 2021
January sale on London theatre tickets
Southern Railway suspends services into Victoria Station until 10th January
London's pocket parks: Christ Church, Spitalfields, E1
New photobook shows off the glory of London's railway stations
First pier cast for HS2's Colne Valley viaduct
A visit to St Mary le Strand church
Improved links between Shadwell Overground and DLR proposed
See the "Fragmented Illuminations" at the V&A Museum
Crossrail Woolwich station left short of developer funding
Two weeks left to visit the Marble Arch Mound
London's Alleys: Rising Sun Court, EC1
Waterloo and City line suspended until early January
Sale on tickets for David Suchet's retrospective
RMT threatens six months of tube strikes
Landscape photography exhibition at London's mainline rail stations
A new book about 1980s computers
Tours of the Lord Mayor's Mansion House
Plans submitted to revamp Grosvenor Square
Pay a visit to St Albans Cathedral
UK’s widest Tunnel Boring Machine on its way to East London
See the Holly Man and the Devil perform their Twelfth Night revels
The unbuilt plans for hotels above South Kensington tube station
London Underground tunnels to get mobile phone coverage from Three and EE
Windowology - the study of Japanese windows in Kensington
Secrets of the London Underground will return for a second TV series
London's Alleys: Sherlock Mews, W1
Guildhall Art Gallery & Roman Amphitheatre closing for several months
TfL gets funding deal extension from the government
London museum and galleries Christmas opening dates
HS2's tunnel boring machines arrive in North-West London
London Christmas tree recycling collections 2021/22
How to get National Theatre tickets for £10
Liverpool Street station plans for a £1.5 billion redevelopment
In Marylebone, a large stone plaque celebrates Charles Dickens
Higher council tax to help fund TfL's defecit
Large scale tube strike this weekend (17th-18th Dec 2021)
Watch the Space Station fly over London on Christmas morning
Terminus Treasures: new study reveals best day out at the end of tube lines
See the homes of Christmas Past at the Museum of the Home
Whitechapel market set for a major makeover
Take a trip in a 1950s vintage bus on Christmas Day
Inside the Pugin designed St George's Cathedral, Southwark
Visit a restored railway signal box in St Albans
TfL funding crunch could cost London over £12 billion over next decade
Eltham Palace fills its gardens with winter lights
Northern line extension adds a new station to the Cross-London interchanges
An astrological clock with Winston Churchill's face in it
London's Alleys: Medici Courtyard, W1
London's transport funding deadline gets one week extension
Wider pavements and fewer cars planned for the West End
Flash sale on Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!
Tube strike on the Night Tube tonight and Saturday
TfL imposes public transport ban on e-scooters
HS2 signs £2 billion contract for fleet of high-speed trains
London's Pocket Parks: Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens, N1
Brunel Museum gets approval to expand the museum
London's largest roof garden - 120 Fenchurch Street - reopens
Strike threat over job cuts on the London Underground
The Christmas Cracker memorial in Finsbury Square
Smithfield's Christmas Eve auction - cancelled for 2021
Tours of the triforium in St Paul's Cathedral
Beam Park station funding forces delay in housing development
Louis Wain's kaleidoscopic cats fills a gallery with colour
Moor Park, the tube station in a private estate
An American Werewolf in London with model tube station
Architectural Christmas wrapping paper
Claims that TfL funding crisis puts housing developments at risk
London's Alleys: Reston Place, SW7
Steam train tours of the Thames bridges
Travel to the Swiss Alps inside the British Museum
Flash sale on Prince of Egypt theatre tickets
Horse and carriage rides in Bushy Park
50 places you wouldn't expect to find a Routemaster bus
Tickets Alert: Tour's of Westminster Abbey's hidden highlights
A look at London's recent railway upgrades
Tower of London moat to be filled with flowers next year
Tickets Alert: Candlelit photography in Southwark Cathedral
Ten exhibitions to visit in London during December
London's Pocket Parks: Hanover Square, W1
November 2021
TfL may need to close an entire Tube line due to funding crunch
Bob Marley exhibition coming to London
A cluster of tiny artworks near Covent Gardens
TfL reintroduces £200 face mask fines on London's Transport
A marvellous model steam train has appeared in Amersham
Greenwich's Advent Windows returns for December
Tickets Alert: Tours of disused London Underground stations
For one week only - a display of rare watches in London
London's Alleys: Portsea Mews, W2
A Christmas makeover for the Charles Dickens Museum
Half price annual passes to the View from the Shard
Graffiti covered shop shutters fills an art gallery
Black Friday deals on London theatre ticket sales
London Underground tube strike on Friday (26th Nov)
Discount on Cycle Hire annual subscriptions
The Magic Circle's season of Christmas magic shows
Stratford takes the title of the UK's busiest railway station
The maternity sculpture by Denmark Hill station
London's Butchers Hall resuming its Carvery Lunches
M&S Oxford Street set to be demolished
You can donate your unused Oyster credit to children's charity
London's Pocket Parks: The Memorial Garden of Rest, W1
Half-price train and bus travel for jobseekers
It's all Greek to the Science Museum
HS2 starts construction of the Old Oak Common station box
There's a museum in James J Fox, London's oldest cigar shop
London Underground warns tube strikes starting this Friday
Five London museums share covid recovery funding
London's Alleys: Haunch of Venison Yard, W1
Crossrail starts final testing phase ahead of opening
Tall office block to sit on the ant-attack train
Greenwich's "Nelson Room" is being restored
South Kensington tube station property redevelopment blocked
Paddington has trapped a man inside a clock
V&A's Fabergé exhibition is so much more than just eggs
London's transport faces a future of "managed decline"
You can climb up Hackney's medieval clock tower
Artificial Northern Lights to fill the skies over the City of London
The world's most expensive postage stamp goes on display in London
Hackney's experimental cargo bike hire scheme
Crossrail aims to start Trial Operations "within days"
Peru comes to the British Museum in eye opening new exhibition
South London's King Alfred statue has the legs of a Roman goddess
London Overground applies to build a new station in South London
New artwork appears at Brixton tube station
Viewing gallery at top of Greenwich's clock tower could reopen to the public
London's Alleys: Shafto Mews, SW1
Christmas drinks tastings at Leadenhall Market
Tickets offer for Matilda the Musical
South Kensington tube station development recomended for approval
London Underground to be hit by strike action
Camden Highline show off initial images for dissused railway walkway
Tulip viewing tower for London - appeal rejected
London Overground trains to call at Battersea Park station on New Years Eve
An overnight rehersal for the Lord Mayor's Show
Now you can drink from a London Underground moquette mug
Glowing roses to fill Grosvenor Square
Give the gift of Museum Membership at Christmas
Exhibition tells the story of a foundling who fought at Trafalgar
Piccadilly Circus lights to show a Trompe-l'oeil through November
London Underground themed whiskies
Tickets Alert: Attend the Dunmow Flitch Trials
A day trip to - Hadleigh Castle, Essex
Tickets Alert: Derelict church to be lit up
Christmas jumpers from London's venues
A rare black diamond is displayed at the Natural History Museum
London's Alleys: Mills Court, EC3
Sale on tickets to Pride and Prejudice (*sort of)
London Underground to close part of the Northern line next year
London's Christmas lights switch on dates and times
There's a statue of a dead parrot in Greenwich
Tickets Alert: Public tours of UCL's telescope observatory
A special beer for the Lord Mayor's Show
Vincent Van Gogh's London home opens to the public
London's Pocket Parks: Royal Docks floating garden
Eighteen more sites added to London's heritage at risk register
London Overground restoring night services in time for Christmas
Northern line inspired art exhibition
You can climb to the top of the Monument tower again
Local councils opt for cheaper Crossrail extension into Kent
A temporary David Bowie shop has opened in London
The Fan Museum is reopening next week
London Underground seeks ideas to improve step-free access to tube stations
Leisure rail travel nearly back to pre-pandemic levels
Half-price train ticket offer on C2C railway services
Passengers can drive the DLR trains again
Ten exhibitions to visit in London during November
Historic railway arches at London Bridge to be restored
London's Alleys: Bridle Lane, W1
October 2021
Cheap early week tickets to The Lion King
Tickets Alert: The Laboratory of Psychical Research
Uncertainty about how Crossrail will repay loans - MP report
Noguchi at The Barbican - all lamps and sculptures
Take a trip in a Wes Anderson designed steam train
Waterloo & City line is restoring its full weekday service
Inside Kilburn's famous Tin Tabernacle
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who on a big screen
The art deco former Daily Express building is to be redeveloped
New campaign to stamp out sexual harassment on London's public transport
Tickets Alert: 90 Anniversary of Abbey Road Studios
A vintage tube train comes to Train Sim World 2
The Lord Mayor's Show returns next month
Inside HS2's huge Euston construction site
King’s Cross station plaque commemorates Britain’s first black train driver
Camley Street's natural park has reopened to the public
More tickets released to go inside the King's Observatory
Crossrail on target for next month's Trial Operations phase
London's Alleys: Percy Passage, W1
Science Museum Lates are returning next month
A London tube station roof is filled with brightly coloured art
Cirque du Soleil returning to the Royal Albert Hall
London Port City - 200 years of London's docks in a new exhibition
Tickets Alert: Lambeth Palace Gardens open day
Maida Vale's double-decker telephone box
HS2 to cut London Euston station to ten platforms
Tickets Alert: An evening of Georgian era confectionery
There's a model of a Japanese bullet train on display in Kensington
London's Pocket Parks: Pont Street, SW1
Damning report into the failures of the Marble Arch Mound
The final Crossrail station oversite has been handed to the developer
London's largest roof garden reopening to the public
Could the Tulip still rise over London?
From WW2 to Cold War and today - the British Army in Germany
Keats200 - an outdoor exhibition
Augmented reality beasties hanging around London Wall
The world’s oldest star map is coming to the British Museum
London's Alleys: Dean's Mews, W1
Depot upgrade at Cockfosters for the Piccadilly line's new trains
Better than half-price tickets to The Snowman this winter
Take a trip along the "Illuminated River" Thames
A light display to celebrate the opening of the Northern line extension
London Underground to resume the Night Tube next month - partially
Going inside the Annunciation Marble Arch
Hokusai - British Museum fills a room with rare Japanese drawings
Huge sale of Film and TV memorabilia
Floating aliens fills the Tate Modern
London's Pocket Parks: Argyle Square, WC1
Cheap train tickets on Greater Anglia services
New London Underground map celebrates Black History in London
Photographs of 1970s Bethnal Green go on display
Code Name Mary - the little known story of a Nazi fighter
Osterley tube station gets step-free access with new lifts
Plans for a Covid memorial for public transport staff unveiled
Museum of the Home resuming its famous Christmas displays
500th anniversary of the Defender of the Faith
London's Alleys: Van Gogh Walk, SW9
Sale on tickets to see Oleanna at the London Art's Theatre
Mail Rail tunnel walks return with a new bit added for Christmas
Best September ever for London's cycle hire scheme
Winter lights displays for 2021
Westminster bridge's entire balustrade is up for sale
The concrete heart of Bermondsey's "Biscuit Town"
Behind the scenes tours of Tower Bridge
London's ice skating rinks for Winter 2021/22
Harry Potter exhibition lifts the veil on the movie magic
Petition to rezone Woolwich on the tube map
A feast of architectural models goes on display
Leadenhall Market to fill with tentacles for halloween
List of London's 2021 bonfire night firework displays
The RRS Sir David Attenborough is visiting London
Surbiton station set for an upgrade to cope with congestion
Dennis Severs' House confirms Christmas openings
Tickets Alert: Tours of a sewage works
Courtauld Gallery reopens in November
London's Alleys: St George's Lane, EC3
The gardens of the Aga Khan Centre
Ten exhibitions to visit in London during October
September 2021
A wooden pavillion appears in Stratford
See a violin made from 12,000 postage stamps
Going inside Greenwich's Devonport Mausoleum
Glowing monsters appearing in Croydon this weekend
RMT warns of strike action over driverless tube trains
A blue plaque unveiled for Diana, Princess of Wales
Transport Museum restarting its disused tube station tours
A day trip to - Barnard Castle
Exploring the work of 15 contemporary London artists
Steel artwork on the corner of Marylebone Lane & Wigmore Street
Southeastern stripped of its franchise after financial misreporting identified
Crossrail's aim for an Easter opening may be in doubt
Exhibition marks 100 years of Polish Embassy in Portland Place
1930s photos of Twickenham sewage site unearthed
Old District line trains running on the Isle of Wight
London's Alleys: Voss Street, E2
Discount deal on Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit with Jennifer Saunders
Plans for Beam Park railway station in East London cancelled
Fabergé egg found by a scrap dealer going on display at the V&A
No need to buy weekly travelcards from next week
How to request your very own Red Arrows flypast
Three London Transport liveried locomotives working together this October
London's Pocket Parks: Bird in Bush Park, SE15
Larking exhibition shows off the relics of the Thames
Pride roundels appearing on the London Underground
Tickets Alert: Sit inside a kaleidoscope filled with plants
HS2 cost uncertainties continue to worry MPs
Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative
Stratford station upgrade takes a small step forward
Behind the scenes James Bond photo exhibition
HS2 opens its North London railway hub
Peckham Rye station redevelopment pushes ahead
The Northern line extension opened today
London's Alleys: Trinity Walk, NW3
Westminster street signs being sold at auction
Consultation seeks to improve cycling and walking in the Royal Docks
London Zoo offering animal tours with afternoon teas
Heraldry photography competition
Sir Richard Burton's curious "tent tomb"
London Underground trains are getting faster
Chelsea in Bloom starts next week
Hayes & Harlington station goes step-free with new ticket office
Oxford Circus pedestrianisation plan delayed
See inside the St. Leonards air raid shelter in East Sheen
Tickets Alert: Plumstead bus garage 40th anniversary
Watch the Cart Marking ceremony this Saturday
See inside the refurbished Lambeth Town Hall
Book Review - Railways: A History in Drawings
Tickets Alert: Chiswick House at Night
Wednesday - a Sheriff rides through the City of London
Red Arrows to fly over London on Tuesday lunchtime
See a golden shawl made from the silk of 2 million spiders
London's Alleys: Model Cottages, SW14
The Architecture the Railways Built returns for a third TV series
Mid-week theatre tickets offer for The Windsors: Endgame
Treasures of Peru are coming to the British Museum
Construction work starts on riverside path under Barnes Bridge
Call for improved design for railway station cycle racks
Inside Peckham's decaying Caroline Gardens Chapel
Prince Charles Cinema is showing The Keep on the big screen
Barbican arts center set for £50-£150 million revamp
The King's Observatory opens for rare tours
See the 700-years old murals of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood
HS2 shows off revised plans for Camden ventilation shaft
Bodleian Libraries reach the milestone of 1 millionth image online for public access
Low-cost London to Edinburgh rail service launches as Lumo
Photos from Whitechapel station's Elizabeth line platforms
A blue plaque for Muppets creator, Jim Henson
Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent's Park
Boat tours of the Illuminated River bridges
Mail on Sunday censured over London Underground anthrax story
London's Alleys: Heathcock Court, WC2
An exhibition of minature books at the British Library
Save on tickets to Anything Goes at the Barbican
Northern line extension's opening date announced
Marble Arch Mound extends free tickets offer
Denmark Hill station's new second entrance opens
Reminder - Open House London starts on Saturday
An unexpected entrance for St Mary Abbots church
Natural History Museum previews Wildlife Photographer exhibition photos
Tickets Alert: Sonic Ray across the Thames
Esperance Bridge opens at King's Cross's Coal Drops Yard
The Stamford Street chapel facade
August 2021
Tickets Alert: Charterhouse tours by Candlelight
There's a pride of painted lions in the West End
London's Pocket Parks: Rathbone Square, W1
A day trip to - The Gatwick Aviation Museum
Book review: A cultural and social history of the London pub
Restored Theatre Royal Drury Lane to start public tours
London's Alleys: Down Street Mews, W1
Discount sale on The Mousetrap tickets
Pewterers' Livery Hall to open for monthly public lunches
London's leisure travel is recovering faster than work travel
Southall station gets new ticket hall and step-free access
Free theatre stage and muscial performances in Trafalgar Square
Wimbledon Park tube station gets step-free access with new lift
London's Pocket Parks: Belsize Wood, NW3
HMS Severn passing through Tower Bridge on Friday
Railway arches photography competition
You can wear London Underground moquette clothing
Booking opens for London Craft Week events
Last ever ice rink at the Natural History Museum this winter
Call to help digitise Euston's burial records
Tours of buildings sites taking place in October
Exhibtion looks at the design of the Tokyo Olympics
Second section of new Brent Cross West station bridge installed
London's Public Art: Unfurl by Eilís O’Connell
Whitechapel station entrance reopens ahead of Elizabeth line arrival
London's Alleys: Canning Passage, W8
London Underground tube strike called off
Discounted tickets to Prince of Egypt at the Dominion Theatre
Blue Plaque celebrates Sir Kenneth Clark of Civilisation TV series fame
Royal Opera House offering guided tours and gins
Cheap train tickets sale on LNER services
Tube strike warning for next week
East London's new military museum - RAF Hornchurch
Revised plans for South Kensington station redevelopment submitted
An exhibition about a "Generous Dentist"
TfL fares could rise by nearly 5% next year
Photos from the roof of the Leadenhall Market
Do take a climb up the Marble Arch Mound
London Churches: St Margaret's Lothbury
No Comply - Somerset House's exhibition about skateboarding
Behind the scenes at South Kensington tube station's escalator replacement project
Harlow Council lobbying for a London Underground extension
Go swimming in Hyde Park's Serpentine lake
London's Alleys: Newport Place, WC2
HS2 tunnel segments to be built in Kent
Flash sale on tickets to Singin' in the Rain at Sadler's Wells
Marble Arch Mound costs have nearly doubled
Agatha Christie exhibition at the Isokon flats
Ex-London Transport steam locos returning to London this autumn
Free film screenings in Trafalgar Square
V for Vendetta exhibition looks behind the mask
A plant covered sculpture in King's Cross
Purfleet railway station to be moved and rebuilt
British Library puts 1 million newspaper pages online for free
Consultation on extending the Elizabeth line into Kent
An enchanted woodland coming to Syon Park
HS2 to use 3D printing at Euston station tunnels
A friends reunion for the Laughing Cavalier
The Museum of Brands and its corridors of nostalgia
Teddington station gets approval for step-free access
Tickets Alert: Tours of Billingsgate's Roman bath house
Call for a rethink of HS2's Euston station plans
Crossrail formally hands Paddington station over to TfL
London's Alleys: Bishop's Court, EC4
Tickets Alert: 40th anniversary of An American Werewolf in London
Photos - Paddington Station's new links to the Elizabeth line
Exhibition - Making Paradise behind King's Cross
Open House London tickets released next week
An exhibition of medical curiosities
Sistine Chapel exhibition coming to London
London's Pocket Parks: St George's Gardens, WC1
First ever exhibition opens at Emery Walker House
Cluster of Leicester Square buildings set for demolition
London's Public Art: Two Pupils
Two Grinling Gibbons exhibitions in London at the same time
Winter Wonderland returning to Hyde Park
Tate Modern wants you to scribble all over its main floor
Tall sailing ship visiting London next week
Disused tube station - Waddesdon Manor
Your photo on the Piccadilly adverting screens
Tube strike for this week is Cancelled
Two Rubens masterpieces reunited at last
Crossrail 2 critical to prevent overloading of trains into Waterloo
London's Alleys: Man in Moon Passage, W1
July 2021
The day I drank a bottle of Mouton Rothschild wine
The Marble Arch Mound - as bad, and not as bad as you've heard
Tickets Alert: Reigate Caves tickets now available
London's cycle hire marks its 11th birthday
Railway art exhibition at Waterloo station until Monday
Review - the Waddesdon Greenway e-bike hire scheme
London's Pocket Parks: Prince's Gardens, SW7
HS2 rail show coming to three locations in London
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who on the big screen
Heritage Open Days opening thousands of doors to the public
Tube strike to go ahead next week
A day trip to - Waddesdon Manor
Tickets Alert: Take a walk though the Mail Rail tunnels
Crossrail aiming for February 2022 opening date
A festival of church bells to ring out across the City of London
Tickets Alert: Tours of St Paul's Cathedral's triforium
Proposals for an east-west tram-style service linking Herts to Essex
Weekend travel to Central London recovering faster than commuter travel
Follow a public art sculpture trail in the City of London
There's an octopus at Liverpool Street station
London's Alleys: Dereham Place, EC2
Staff shortages causing closures on the London Underground this weekend
The 50th anniversary of the Victoria line extension to Brixton
Strand to be part-pedestrianised from late August
A day trip to - Saffron Walden, Essex
Work on Hackney Central station's upgrade has started
London's Pocket Parks: Barnsbury Wood, N1
West Drayton station gets step-free access and larger ticket hall
Grinling Gibbons 300th-anniversary exhibition opens next month
London to Brighton railway to have a partial closure next February
A day trip to - Audley End House and gardens
See a model railway on Old Street
Huge mural appears on the side of a Holbon hotel
Photos from the HS2 tunnel site in northwest London
Drivers eye view of the new Luton DART light railway
Covent Garden to be filled with neon art next month
Win unlimited travel on National Rail for a year
London's Alleys: Silver Place, W1
See the International Space Station passing over London
Farringdon station opens part of the Elizabeth line to the public
Rare hoard of iron age coins discovered in West London
See a "walking" boat on the Thames
Testing cargo deliveries by rail to town centres
See inside the 300+ year old Newington Green Unitarian Church
Balham station's £2.6 million upgrade completed
London's Pocket Parks: Olympic Ring Park, N1C
New rail travel pass planned for domestic tourists
Anna Ray exhibitions looks back at her Huguenot ancestors
City of London raising its river embankment to prevent Climate Change flooding
New Piccadilly line trains moquette shown off
Face coverings to remain mandatory on London's trains and buses
A day trip to - Dorneywood House and gardens
Tube drivers to go on strike next month
Refurbished ex-SWT trains appearing on Southeastern lines
See Gods Own Junkyard in the Leadenhall Market
Secrets of the London Underground TV series starts next week
Nothern line bank branch to close for 4 months next year
Tickets Alert: British Museum offering pre-opening tours at weekends
Crossrail changes its staged opening plans
London's Alleys: Princes Place, SW1
TfL joins in the Euro football excitement
Plans shown off for parks around Old Oak Common's HS2 station
Red Arrows flying over Wembley on Sunday evening
Marble Arch Mound adds a lights display
Tickets Alert: Hidden highlights of Westminster Abbey tours
St Paul's Cathedral's reopens its Dome to visitors
Crossrail report warns of cost pressures as Elizabeth line nears completion
Bid submitted to upgrade Sutton to Epsom Downs rail link
More tickets released for Buckingham Palace picnics this summer
A free football exhibiton in the City of London
London Underground's Northern line extension starts trial operations
London's Pocket Parks: Calthorpe Community Garden, WC1
Tickets Alert: 1950s British Transport films with live music
The Clash's broken guitar going on display at the Museum of London
New summer poems on the London Underground/Overground
Blue Plaque for one of Britain's first black British medical consultants
See a Parish Boy's Progress at the Charles Dickens Museum
Theatre displays fill empty shop windows
Julian Opie at Pitzhanger - bold lines meets ornate architecture
HS2 launches its second TBM under the M25 motorway
Moorgate tube station entrance reopens after a decade of closure
See the Charterhouse's restored Great Chamber
Bricket Wood station's disused ticket office to be restored
Tickets Alert: Cocktails in a garden square
London's Alleys: Lancashire Court, W1
Kingsway tram tunnel to start public tours in August
A chance to abseil off the Cheesegrater skyscraper
Museums granted £60 million for upgrades and improvements
HS2 tunnel spoil to fill in a Cambridgeshire open-pit mine
See a huge scale model of central London at Kings Cross
Dennis Severs' House reopens this month
London exhibitions to visit in July 2021
Science and art at the National Gallery's Copernicus exhibition
June 2021
Tickets Alert: Nocturnal Creatures festival
Westminster Abbey to open in the evenings
Gainsborough's Blue Boy returns to London next year
Four free exhibitions to visit at the V&A Museum
Whitewebbs transport museum reopens this Sunday
City of London shows off its new police boxes
Chiltern Railways testing a train with a hybrid Rolls Royce engine
Cardboard models of London buildings
Battery powered train trial for West London
Disruptions to Euston station during July and August
Tickets Alert: Pick your own Lavender weekend
Ickenham becomes the latest step-free tube station, raising total to 84
London's Alleys: Charterhouse Mews, EC1
Exhibition of woodwork marks the 450th anniversay of the Joiners and Ceilers
Crossrail hands Woolwich station over to TfL
Kensington High Street cycle lane set for High Court battle
Tickets Alert: Military pomp at Horseguards Parade
A history of Little Ben - the Victoria clock tower
How to get tickets for the 2021 Last Night of the Proms
HS2's Old Oak Common station gets formal start
Changes at the planned new Thames Wharf DLR station
See brass steam trains in the Science Museum
Northern City line starts major signalling upgrade work
TfL back with revised plans for flats at Cockfosters tube station
London to Brighton car rally aiming for 500 vintage cars this year
Mobile phone coverage coming to the London Underground tunnels
Goodyear Blimp flying over London next week
More details about the Oxford Circus pedestrianisation plans
The Barbican tells the story of the threatened Yanomami people
Tickets to climb the Marble Arch Mound now on sale
National Rail flexible season tickets go on sale today
London's Alleys: Carmarthen Place, SE1
A giant model of London coming to King's Cross
Borough Market to start opening on Sundays
Harry Potter exhibition opens in London next month
Vodafone drops WiFi coverage from the London Underground
A day trip to - Chevening House gardens
Oxford Circus is to be part-pedestrianised
Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust's restored homes
The real Noël Coward, the man beneath the dressing gown
Tickets Alert: Charlie Chaplin anniveray in the historic Wilton's Music Hall
Dr Johnson's House museum reopens to the public
Crossrail doubles trial running frequency
The Museum of the Home - twice as big, twice as good
Outdoor art exhibition coming to East London
London's Alleys: Martlett Court, WC2
Emirates Air Line gets busy after the lockdown
See folklore art on display in a church crypt
Partial suspension of the Circle/District lines planned for August
200-Year old Brockwell Hall to be restored
Somerset House is filled with trees for the London Design Biennale
A day trip to - Hatfield House
Chopin sculpture outside the Royal Festival Hall
A photobook abou the tube stations at the end of the tube lines
Tower Bridge to be covered in a thousand photos of Londoners this Sunday
Public vote to rename the road outside new City Hall
London's Pocket Parks: Leathermarket Gardens, SE1
Weekly late nights at the Transport Museum
Garden Museum seeking designs for a new entrance pavillion
A new southern entrance opens at Ilford station
Heathrow Airport scrapping free local bus services
Sign Language announcements at Euston station
Mayfair's Sculpture Trail 2021 has opened
Exhibition - JR's prolific gigantic street art
London's Alleys: Barley Mow Passage, EC1
The Waterloo & City line is reopening this morning
Britain's longest serving railway employee retires from Waterloo station
London Zoo to open in the summer evenings through July
A glowing earth fills the Painted Hall in Greenwich
Three more "British Railways" totems for south London
Over 12,000 people blocked from TfL services due to lack of face covering
London's Pocket Parks: Salters' Gardens, EC2
South Kensington tube station development decison delayed until the autumn
Islamaphobia and the Opium Wars - at the Brunei Gallery
Ealing Broadway station gets step-free access with enlarged ticket hall
From Tudors to Windsors - a history in portraits
London Zoo's NHS sign is to be preserved by the Museum of London
London exhibitions to visit in June 2021
TfL secures funding to keep running, at a high cost
Could the pantograph make a return to London's buses?
May 2021
London's newest museum opens its cells - the Bow Street Police Museum
60th anniversary of Wembley Stadium's ski jump
London's Alleys: Fairthorne Road, SE7
Art galleries across London to open for an Art Weekend
Tickets Alert: Attend the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London
London's cycle hire scheme sponsorship extended to 2025
See hot air balloons over London in June
Hackers - a cyberpunk exhibition in a basement
Stephen Hawking's office coming to the Science Museum
London's Pocket Parks: Charlton station
Tickets Alert: Tours of two Twickenham Grottos
Plans to improve rail freight on London's railways
No trains at King's Cross over the first weekend of June
Mythbusting Nero at the British Museum
Two Adam Dant exhibitons in London at the same time
The Winchcombe meteorite goes on display in London
Tickets Alert: Tours of Oxford House
Cromwell Place - South Kensington's art dealer collective
Cleaning up the shabby platform ramps in Euston Station
Tickets Alert: Visit London's largest free Conservatory
Debenhams Oxford Street to lose its metal facade
London's Alleys: Queen's Passage, SW1A
Life-size elephant sculptures in London
Tickets Alert: Book a visit to Dorneywood House
New tunnel starts digging under south London
Rubens masterpieces reunited for the first time in 200 years
London museums and galleries open for the May spring bank holiday
Flexibile season tickets from a new Great British Railways
London's Pocket Parks: Holy Trinity Brompton churchyard
New images of Hackney Central station upgrade
Cheap tickets to the English National Opera
Partial first class upgrades on Avanti West Coast rail trips
A visit to St Columba's Church of Scotland
Tickets Alert: Visit Chevening House gardens
TfL secures another short-term funding extension
The British Museum presents Becket, Bling and Beatification
Step-free access to Notting Hill Gate tube station planned
Webcam to watch the Marble Arch mound being built
Mayfield lavender farm reopens in June
Unusual locations for Weddings in London
London's Alleys: Greek Court, W1
Tickets Alert: Public tours of an HS2 archaeology site
The Waterloo & City line to reopen as rush-hour service only
The 19th century Brewers Buildings, Clerkenwell
An authorised London Underground whisky goes on sale
Tickets Alert: Take a walk through the Mail Rail tunnels
An archive of aerial photos of London
Kennington tube?station is changing?from a Zone 2 station to?a Zone 1/2 station
HS2 starts tunnelling in northwest London
London's railway upgrades – a progress report
Stratford station set for massive transformation
The Museum of the Home is reopening after refurbishment
Crossrail starts trial running of the Elizabeth line trains
Three churches to visit near Banbury
Paddington Bear exhibition comes to the British Library
The sad sight of Beuys' Acorns outside the Tate Modern
Leadenhall Market to be filled with neon lights from Hollywood movies
See the Flying Scotsman steam train in London
90 year old tube poster reappearing on the London Underground
Dodgems coming to Somerset House
Construction starts of a railway footbridge at Brent Cross West station
London's Alleys: Lamb's Conduit Passage, WC1
Tickets Alert: The Sky Garden reopens in 10 days time
Tickets Alert: See inside the sumptuous Two Temple Place
Have a carvery lunch in the Butchers Hall
A moody makeover for the V&A's Raphael Court
Did you know there was a London Underground whisky?
More virtual disused tube station tours announced
What the City of London will look like in the mid-2020s
Colourised film shows London during WW2
Tickets Alert: Fish and Chips on a steam train
London's Pocket Parks: King Square Gardens, EC1
Call for artists to decorate Vauxhall's railway arches
The Tower of London wants you to name a raven
London's cathedrals reopening to tourists
Nine Elms tube station gets approval for residential towers
Free films in London cinemas in June
London's Alleys: Falcon Court, EC4
Your chance to help archaeologists in public outreach
April 2021
Jack the Ripper museum up for sale
Florence Nightingale Museum to partially reopen from June
More progress on Luton Airport's DART railway
London's Pocket Parks: All Hallows Church, EC2
Underbelly Festival moves from Southbank to Oxford Street
Building site booties made from recycled plastic bottles
Museum of London reopening with extended exhibitions
Concrete art on the Cavendish hotel car park
Book Review: The London Problem
Nero is coming to the British Museum
Supermundane mural appears in Covent Garden
A day trip to - Thenford Arboretum
Kensington Palace to reopen with Princess Diana's wedding dress
London Zoo to show off the world of the Tiny Giants
House of Fraser Victoria likely to be demolished
Disused rail tunnel reopens at Kings Cross station
London's Alleys: The Outer Temple, WC2
City of London plans to merge police and courthouses approved
The Iron Throne is coming to Leicester Square
Sculpture to honour victims of sexual violence
Transport Museum depot to open for Half-Term
London's Pocket Parks: Artizan Street, E1
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who Dragonfire on the big screen
Liverpool Street station platforms upgraded for Crossrail
The Tudor style building in central London
Borough Market offering evening dining inside the Victorian market
TfL updates on Northern line extension progress
Tickets Alert: Les Misérables - The Staged Concert
Step-free access to the Northern line at Waterloo moves forward
May Bank Holiday train disruptions
Tubular rainbow appears in Soho Square
Tickets Alert: Take sheep across Southwark Bridge
Crossness steam pumping museum reopening
London's Alleys: Dansey Place, W1
See some theatre inspired displays in Fortnum's windows
Science Museum reopening with Climate Change exhibition
Regular steam train trips between London and Windsor resume
Booking opens for the Natural History Museum
Charles Dickens Museum reopening with extended exhibition
Progress works on the new Brent Cross West station
London's Pocket Parks: Willow Street, EC2
West End galleries to have syncronised late night opening evening
Mayor gets extra 10 years to collect Crossrail funding contributions
Tickets to visit the V&A museum now available
Greenwich Peninsula art - the Optic Cloak and a Pinch in Time
Parcel lockers coming to more TfL stations
Tours of the Charterhouse, a medieval monastry, resume in June
Crossrail's longest artwork is being installed
Tickets Alert: Tours of Spencer House resume
Debden station on the Central line goes step-free
Toy train packaging turns into a London Underground station
London's Alleys: Hogarth Court, EC3
Take a ride on one of London’s miniature steam trains
The Silk Road - a photography exhibition in King's Cross
Tickets Alert: Women's suffrage exhibition inside a military Drill Hall
Outdoor photography gallery opening just off Oxford Street
Heathrow Airport's western rail link put on hold
Clerkenwell toilets hoardings turned into "art"
Kidbrooke station's new ticket office opens
A call for improved cycling provison at railway stations
Have a picnic in Buckingham Palace's garden this summer
London's Pocket Parks: Graham Street Park, N1
Taste of London returning this summer
London Overground could be split into individual lines
Tickets Alert: Design Museum's sneakers/trainers exhibition
Bid on some amazing transport experiences for charity
Covent Garden unveils outdoor dining plans
The Regent's Canal sharks have moved to Islington
London's Alleys: South Molton Passage, W1
Epping Ongar and Bluebell heritage railways to restart trains
Book Review - Royal Greenwich: A History in Kings and Queens
Brunel Museum opening a riverside cafe
Oxford Street shop to be covered in light based art display
Crossbones Graveyard future secured
Battersea Power Station's glass elevator to open next year
March 2021
Tickets Alert: Van Gough Alive
Tickets Alert: London Zoo to reopen its doors on 12th April
National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe reopening
Southwark considers Tram alternative to Bakerloo line extension
Thames Clipper wins Hammersmith Bridge ferry contract
Red Arrows to fly over North-West London on Wednesday
How London Transport's roundel was nearly a rabbit
Roof top dining overlooking Hyde Park with the Dorchester
Pedestrianisation plans for Bank junction in the City
West Ealing station goes step-free as part of Crossrail upgrades
London's Alleys: Garden Walk, EC2
Tickets Alert: A glowing earth returns to Greenwich’s Painted Hall
Radical revamp of Peckham Rye station proposed
London's Brooklands Museum gets a TV series
Liverpool Street station increases cycle racks by a quarter
Tickets Alert: National Trust properties for Easter
London's Pocket Parks: Worship Square, EC2
Southbank Centre confirms plans to reopen from May
Art exhibition coming to Fulham's derelict Town Hall
Office block above Southwark station to be heated by tube trains
Time Out cancels Waterloo Station food hall plans
Old Royal Naval College reopening with a host of outdoor events
City of London gets planning permission for Dagenham markets move
TfL to take full ownership of the DLR's Lewisham extension
Outdoor exhibition opens around Kentish Town
HS2 starts work on its north-west London viaduct
TfL accepts offer to extend its emergency funding deal
London's Alleys: New North Place, EC2
Tickets Alert: Lunches in London's Livery Halls
Hammersmith Bridge could re-open next summer
Decommissioned London Underground kit on sale next week
Acton Main Line station goes step-free with new ticket office
The White Horse of Poplar High Street
Postal Museum tickets on sale for a reopening from 20th May
Buy cakes and raise money for charity
A call to improve London's lighting at night
3,000 homes to be built next to Dagenham Dock railway station
Tickets Alert: The Household Division's Beating Retreat
Hopes for West London Orbital railway consultation later this year
Old maps of London with modern buildings
English Heritage to start reopening from the end of March
London's Alleys: Banbury Court, WC2
Tickets Alert: The Sky Garden reopens on 12th April
Art Deco cinema saved from conversion into a hotel
Unbuilt London: Biota! - the East London aquarium
Tickets Alert: Tours resume at the Globe Theatre
Check out these charming wooden railway models
M&S want to redevelop their Oxford Street flagship store
Report into Kensington High Street cycle lane published
Docklands: The Expanding City (1988 LDDC corporate video)
Tickets Alert: Hatfield House reopening
A new entrance for King's Cross tube station
That's Dandy! Two Beano exhibitions coming to London
London's railway closures over Easter 2021
London's Alleys: Compter Passage, EC2
Somerset House to be filled with trees for the first time
Crossrail formally hands Farringdon station over to Transport for London
Final designs for London Underground's new Piccadilly line trains shown off
Sporting heritage murals uncovered by Wembley Stadium
HS2 planning large nature reserve next to the M25 motorway
Tickets Alert: Gilbert & George at the White Cube
Pressure to restore the Kensington High Street cycle lane
Romford station upgrade works during a covid lockdown
London's Pocket Parks: St Alfege Park, SE10
A cluster of sideways buildings to replace the ITV tower
Crossrail's fourth station starts handover process to TfL
Mating toads forces road closure in Ham, Richmond
London's railway upgrades – a progress report
The Marriage of Figaro for £3 from the Royal Opera House
Protecting the Bakerloo line extension
Design for Bank tube station entrance for approval
London's Alleys: Shrewsbury Court, EC1
February 2021
Historic Hanwell station gets heritage revival
Reserve London theatre ticket vouchers ahead of reopening
New book looks behind the scenes of Buckingham Palace's garden
Architecture exhibition for Euston Station
The Queen commands Mary Anning must appear on 50p coins
Finding the Virginia Quay Settlers Monument
Fewer "roadworks" to affect London's pavements
Petition for a Covid lockdown Bank Holiday
Flythrough of Luton Airport's new automated cable railway
London Bridge's lost Nonsuch House
Rodin exhibition coming to Tate Modern for the summer
60th anniversary restoration for the Crystal Palace Bowl
Book Review: Dickens on Railways
Wish you were here - Keats' inspired poems on the London Underground
Four London theatres are on the Theatres at Risk register
HS2's Euston tunnel headhouse clad in Victorian-inspired brickwork
London's Alleys: Cromwell Mews, SW7
Barbican Centre upgrade as Centre for Music is cancelled
O2 shopping centre could be replaced with flats
Harringay station upgrades planned
c2c to stop Oyster card sales from ticket offices
National Gallery planning 200th anniversary overhaul
The forgotten era of Light Reflectors in London's alleys
Winning design to open up a railway arch for pedestrians
A temporary hill as a viewing platform planned for Marble Arch
Two ugly steam engines join the Epping Ongar Railway
New York Highline team to design London's Camden Highline
Southeastern's Javelin HS1 train simulator launched
London's Alleys: Angel Court, EC2
Crossrail reaches final commissioning phase at Tottenham Court Road station
HS2 gets can do for route through to Crewe
Campaign to save Pollock's Toy Museum.
Race the Rails - a London Underground game
London's Pocket Parks: All Hallows Church and Community Garden, SE1
Virtual tours of the disused Aldwych tube station
London street signs going for sale
Lose yourself in this 8-bit train driving simulator
HS2 shows off barn-like ventilation shaft headhouse
Five more bridges joining London's "Illuminated River"
City of London looks to post-pandemic cultural recovery
50 years since London Underground switched to decimal currency
The wonderful Imberbus returns for 2021
Multiple weekend closures of the Victoria-East Croydon line announced
London's Alleys: South Yard, EC2
Chrisp Street market set for controversial redevelopment
London Underground adds step-free access to Amersham station
Crossrail needs a "forensic focus" to complete the line on time
London's Pocket Parks: Southwood Garden, W1
Hampton Court Palace gardens have reopened
Glowing dinosaurs for your night light
The statue of Thomas Coram in Bloomsbury
Timelapse video shows Avanti West Coast train refurbishment
V&A's Raphael Cartoons go online
Changes for Elephant & Castle tube station
Camden Highline totebags and postcards
The Necropolis railway station to be turned into flats
City of London design competition for a new TARDIS
London's Alleys: Sun Court, EC2
January 2021
Plans for a Hammersmith Bridge replacement ferry wharf submitted
London Underground gets approval for Walthamstow Central tube station upgrade
Spring flower photography competition
HS2 starts construction of the North London crossover box
Changes to South Kensington tube station upgrades proposed
London's ceremonial gun salutes during 2021
St James's Palace - from lepers to royalty
Consultation opens on extending the Elizabeth line into Kent
More moquette masks from the London Transport Museum
An update on the Crossrail project progress
The campaign to save a modernist housing block in South London
Unbuilt London: The Eurostar terminus at White City
Tickets Alerts: 50th anniversary concert of Tubular Bells
A brief history of Brutalist architecture as a Barbican map
The campaign to save the India Club from eviction
London's Alleys: Rolls Passage, EC4
300th anniversary Grinling Gibbons exhibition coming to London
The Science Museum is to become a Covid vaccination centre
Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free
TfL gets approval for 852 new homes in Acton
A herd of elephants can be seen in Spitalfields
Georgian Group's journal made available for free online
TfL to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to face masks
Crystal Palace gets a Dinosaur bridge
TfL to keep accepting cash payments for London travel tickets
London Public Art: Three large stone heads on Milford Lane
Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car exhibition
See things never seen before at the Science Museum
The year a "railway" ran inside Westminster Abbey
London's Public Art: Vortex by Barbara Sandler
The "Trump Baby" blimp is coming to the Museum of London
London's Alleys: Doughty Mews, WC1
Details of London's tube and bus fare rises confirmed
London's first Absinthe distillery
Tickets Alert: Snowdrop Sundays at Gatton Park
It's the 700th anniversary of Leadenhall Market
Disused station next to the DLR to be turned into housing
Big increase in people using London's cycle hire bikes in 2020
The milkmaid statue by Regents Park
Watch National Theatre plays online
Huge street mural comes to Shoreditch
London Underground trains made from LEGO
The Architecture the Railways Built - a sequel
London's population to start shrinking says report
London's Alleys: Swallow Passage, W1
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2021
London womens museum seeks funding
Tickets Alert: Banksy exhibition opening in London
What was the Top Shop shop before Top Shop was in the shop?
Housing approved for Northern line extension building site
There was once a hospital underneath St Pauls' Cathedral
New images of Smithfield market redevelopment plans
170 people prosecuted for not wearing a face mask on London transport
HS2 freight deliveries to a town without a railway station
Florence Nightingale Museum forced to close to visitors
Replica DLR train arrives at Enfield college
London's Alleys: Barbon Close, WC1
London Underground runs first tube trains on the Northern line extension
Architecture for Dogs - virtual tour
December 2020
Your most read articles on ianVisits during 2020
The Natural History Museum to be in a TV show next week
London Overground's Barking Riverside extension delayed
London's Pocket Parks: Camden Gardens, NW1
Temporary art in Victoria - Small, Medium and Large Houses
Northern line extension to Battersea - construction update
Fresh photos from HS2's London construction sites
Tickets Alert: London Zoo is reopening
Brent Cross West Station eastern entrance planning approved
Take a winter wander through Highgate Cemetery
The environmental argument in favour of HS2
Parts of Strand and Aldwych to be pedestrianised
Waterloo station mural has a historical fact hidden in its design
London's Alleys: Adam's Court, EC2
Tickets Alert: Winter lights at Kew go back on sale
Nightime drone display over the Thames
The year Little Chef opened a cafe in Regent's Park
People without bank accounts struggle to use London's transport
City of London car park to be turned into cycle delivery hub
The mystery of Dick Whittington's stone in Highgate
Temporary art inside Piccadilly Circus tube station
A statue planned for the Penge East station cat
TfL issues compulsory purchase order to expand Surrey Quays station
London Christmas tree recycling collections 2020/21
Houses "for sale" signs as a Brixton art exhibition
DLR extension to Thamesmead gets preliminary funding
London's Alleys: Wilder Walk, W1
Cheaper entry to Kew Gardens over Christmas
Bow Street prison cells to become London's newest museum
Crossrail offers a virtual tour around Farringdon station
Get up close to some masterpieces from Buckingham Palace
The Science Museum's new laser powered IMAX cinema
South London pies being delivered to the home
HS2's tunnel boring machines arrive in London
Watch "Father Christmas" fly over London on Christmas morning
Thameslink is back on the London tube map
New revelations about the "Spitalfields Roman woman"
London museum and galleries Christmas opening dates
David Bowie season coming to the BFI cinema
The National Threatre is offering some online Dick
Tickets Alert: Fairground dodgems to fill Somerset House
The tube station that had a movable platform
Tickets Alert: See inside the former Welsh Chapel
A bale of straw is to hang from Wandsworth Bridge
Heathrow rail extension pushed back by several years
London's Alleys: Peto Place, NW1
Non-Londoners could pay £3.50 to drive into London
Tickets Alert: Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers -The Virtual Tour
Tickets Alert: Walk through the Mail Rail tunnels
London skyscraper completes primary construction
Farringdon's Elizabeth line station construction completed
A marine exhibition shows the side of the sea rarely seen
See "Fantastic Beasts" inside the Natural History Museum
Catch Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol by candle light
See the new Midland Pullman's inaugural journey this Saturday
Rabbitwoman and Dogman come to Spitalfields
Fancy training as a train driver?
Missing Doctor Who London Underground story to be released
Euston towers demolished for HS2 station
Tickets Alert: Christmas tickets to visit National Trust properties
London's Alleys: Primrose Hill, EC4
Tickets Alert: Dinner and special tours of a Jumbo Jet
Landscape photography exhibition at London Bridge station
Opening Highgate's West Cemetery to the public
Hackney Central London Overground station upgrade gets approval
Tickets Alert: Tours of the restored Newington Green Meeting House
A celestial conjunction for Christmas
There's now a Captain Tom branded London Dry Gin
Smithfield's Christmas Eve auction - cancelled for 2020
Dennis Severs' House opens a Christmas display for free
Unbuilt London: Demolish Downing Street
Greenwich's advent windows returns this year
Crossrail gets its funding to complete the railway
Bakerloo line extension consultation approves of plans
November 2020
A double-decker replacement for Hamersmith Bridge?
20th anniversary of the British Museum's Great Court
London's Alleys: Brabant Court, EC3
Help support the ianVisits website
Half price View from the Shard offer for Black Friday
Book Review: London Tree Walks by Paul Wood
Winter lights festival coming to the South Bank
London's Pocket Parks: Mallon Gardens, E1
Plans to reduce road traffic in the Royal Parks
Restoring a heritage London Underground roundel
Christmas gifts of free entry to exhibitions
A Christmas of talks about Charles Dickens
Crossrail confirms on target for Trial Running early next year
Isle of Wight tube train secured for preservation in London
Huge ceiling mural shown off at Sudbury Town tube station
Emptying Buckingham Palace's long art gallery
Crossrail could be "mothballed" without urgent funding
No Piccadilly line trains for South Kensington tube station from Feb 2021
London's Alleys: Pinner's Passage, EC2
A first look at the new DLR trains
Tickets Alert: A trial organ recital at the Royal Albert Hall
Half price tours of disused tube stations
London Bridge to get a new tower block and theatre
Book Review: Underground Cities by Mark Ovenden
The memorial to the founding of the Labour Party
Tate Britain covers its building in winter illuminations
Playstation takes over a London Underground station
A multicoloured makeover for Crossrail Place footbridge
Christmas gifts from London's museums and galleries
Tickets Alert: Virtual tours of a London space observatory
Dino t-shirts to support the Crystal Palace dinosaurs
Planning application filed to move City Hall to the Crystal
TfL releases WW2 archive online
TfL adds "next bus" information to its iPhone app
Take in a virtual tour of the Brunel Museum
London's Alleys: Great St Thomas Apostle, EC4
Musicians are delivering Christmas trees across London
The chapel of the Convent of the Assumption
New larger and brighter train departure signs for Victoria station
Architecture for Dogs - an exhibition
Small green robots to drive around Hounslow
Euston Arch reconstruction could cost £50 million
When the Lord Mayor's show took place on the Thames
Margart Calvert - a retropective and a new railway design
Christmas jumpers from London venues
Victoria station marks the centenary of the arrival of the Unknown Warrior
The Met line's Croxley rail link may be resurected
A typography library looking to digitise its collection
Piling starts at new North London railway station
London's Alleys: Pied Bull Yard, WC1
A grand procession to open the Northern line extension
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs and St Paul's Cathedral in latest grants awards
An immersive Doctor Who show is coming to London in 2021
New moquette socks from the London Transport Museum
See parts of Princess Anne you've never seen before
The Finnish church's Christmas shop opens
London's Pocket Parks, Rennie Garden, SE1
Learn traditional steam fair signwriting
A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic screened online
Exhibition - London Transport at War
Tickets Alert: A multi-sensory exploration of light and sound.
A carvery lunch in Butchers Hall
London Underground's Northern line extension progress report
Invite Florence Nightingale to your office Zoom meeting
Design for HS2's South Kilburn ventelation shaft shown off
Faulkner’s Alley, EC1 - London's Alleys and Passages
TfL secures funding deal to keep London's buses and trains running
October 2020
The Covid Letters that say Boris is a Poo
Tickets Alert: Chelsea Flower Show
Bank tube station upgrade reaches tunnelling milestone
Unbuilt London: The Berkely Square road tunnel
Water voles are being reintroduced to London
Balham railway station set for refurbishment
Tickets Alert: Panto in the National
The forgotten story of Chinese aid for the British in WW1
London's Pocket Parks: Old Street Yard, EC1
Tickets Alert: Shakespeare on film in the Globe theatre
London Underground's yellow tube train
Tickets Alert: Watch the Royal Ballet rehearsals
How Tilbury in Essex benefits from HS2 to Birmingham
Tickets Alert: Sit inside a kaleidoscope filled with plants
London's Alleys: Alderman's Walk, EC2
London Underground's escalators getting UV light treatment
Tickets Alert: Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall
Ten London venues get £22 million in funding
Half price tickets to the View from the Shard
Crossrail could open central tunnels as soon as late 2021
Old Street station to be exit only in the mornings from November
Take in an arctic adventure at the British Museum
Signs to defend against evil found along the HS2 railway
Westminster Abbey lifts its ban on photography
Londoners facing higher council taxes to bail out TfL
The chess frontage of Simpsons in the Strand
There's a pink tube train in North Greenwich
Behind the scenes tours of Tower Bridge
London's Pocket Parks: Moor Lane Community Garden, EC2
London's railway upgrades – a progress report
Open Air exhibition - Faiths in the City
Michael Clark's dance retrospective at the Barbican
London's Alleys: Austin Friars Passage, EC2
TfL has until Halloween to secure a long term funding deal
Plans for a revamped Finsbury Circus gardens shown off
Dr Johnson's House reopens next month
Lea Bridge station entrance to be rebuilt
Tickets Alert: Nightime photography at the RAF Museum
Live status alerts for lifts and escalators at railway stations
London Underground themed cycling clothing
Unbuilt London: Diverting the Thames through South London
Tickets Alert: Halloween horror films in Peckham
British Library releases 18,000 maps and views for free
Restoring the Princes Risborough railway signal box
Regent Street to get wider pavements and cycle lanes
Matt Smith's medley of art in a city office lobby
Crossrail extension may be dependent on theme park developer
London's Alleys: Clerks Place, EC3
The world's largest archive of magazines - is in South-East London
London's first two HS2 tunnelling machines ordered
A train covered in Christmas Lights is coming to Epping
The arguments over TfL debt numbers
London's Pocket Parks: Cavell Street Garden, E1
Ice Skating in London this winter
Museum of London celebrates dub music
Teddington station set to get step free access with new lifts
London’s bonfire night firework displays 2020
The Postal Museum's Mail Rail tours resume later this month
West India Quay's curious shopping centre
Crossrail works could pause without funding agreement
London's Alleys: Duke's Mews, W1
Last chance to ride an old train along the London Overground
Charles Dickens Museum selling limited edition postcards
Look out for a Blue Moon on Halloween
Tickets Alert: Late night opening at the Science Museum
Governance of the Crossrail programme transfers to TfL
London's Pocket Parks: Basil Hume memorial garden, EC1
September 2020
London Underground's Bakerloo line extension likely to be delayed
Barking wants to bury a road and build a railway station
Waterloo station refurbishment costs jump
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
Thameslink could be appearing on the Tube map soon
Tickets Alert: Pollocks Toy Museum now offering tours
Wellcome Collection reopens next Wednesday
Plans advance for an extra Crossrail station at Kensal Green
Tickets Alert: Ennio Morricone season at the BFI
London Underground appears in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
London's Alleys: Bloomfield Place, W1
Traffic lights being reprogrammed to prefer humans
The V&A's Raphael Court is to reopen soon
Grosvenor Square getting a hidden water garden
Nine Elms railway arch to be opened as pedestrian tunnel
Southern trains set for refurbishment and upgrades
London's grand Custom House set for hotel conversion
Tantra at the British Museum is more death than sex
Walking competition to win moquette picnic sets
The Botanical City - A guide to the plants in the city
Setback for West London Orbital railway plans
Tate Britain's Turner exhibition to feature the £20 bank note
Rail franchising scrapped after 24 years
London's Alleys: Corbet Court, EC3
The first ever Pantomine comes to The National Theatre
Cardboard models of London's top buildings
London's dead to be moved to Brookwood for HS2
The future of the office in the work from home era
A statue of Navigation and a Maypole next to a Cheesegrater
How to get free entry to museum exhibitions
The mystery and wonder of the Havering Hoard
Prince Charles Cinema reopens next month
London Cocktail Week - now lasts a month
Progress on Colindale tube station rebuild
Tickets Alert: Tantra and the Arctic at the British Museum
Are there plans for a light rail service linking towns in Essex?
London's Alleys: Cleveland Place, SW1
TV series looks at the archeology of HS2
The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum
Design competition for the Camden Highline
King’s Cross station to cut rush hour services for three months
The St Lawrence Jewry memorial drinking fountain
New London skyscraper to sit next to the "Walkie Talkie"
There are sharks in the Regents Canal
Calls for Southeastern's High Speed service to be added to the Travelcard
Free Santander cycle hire and a discounted annual rate on Car Free Day
Tickets Alert: Chance to go inside the King's Observatory
London's Alleys: Seaforth Place, SW1
Tickets Alert: Online guided tours of the Houses of Parliament
Tickets Alert: Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
London Underground branded face coverings
London's Pocket Parks: Bloomsbury Square
HS2 outlines timeline for London construction works
London's non-geographic postcodes
Pay a visit to East Dulwich's House of Dreams
The public Lord Mayor’s Show 2020 has been cancelled
Out of the Blue: Fifty Years of Designers Guild
Denmark Hill station getting £7.5 million upgrade
August 2020
The new socially distanced British Museum
London's Alleys: Greystoke Place, EC4
Southeastern service predicts if trains are quiet or busy
From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers - A hymn to electronic music
Festival of Britain scultpure reappears in Waterloo Station.
LNER scraps peak-hour ticket restrictions on Fridays
Eat Out to Help Out extended in central London
The subterranean world of the Charing Cross Collectors Market
London's Pocket Parks: Fortune Street Park, EC1
The fake 10 Downing Street door you can pose in front of
A dollop of ice cream is art in Trafalgar Square
Steam trains return to the Epping Ongar Railway for the Bank Holiday
London's Alleys: Laurence Pountney Hill, EC4
Tickets Alert: Free entry to Greenwich's Painted Hall
Crossrail delayed to 2022 and faces higher costs
Big screen classics back on the big screen at the BFI
Impulsoria - the Victorian horse powered railway
Tickets Alert: Walk through an underground train tunnel
Tate Modern's slavery judging fountain
Tickets Alert: Backstage tours of the O2 / Millennium Dome
Unbuilt London: London and Westminster Improved
No trains at Kings Cross during the first weekend of Sept
Tickets Alert: Open air screenings of Jesus Christ Superstar
Fenchurch Street station may need to move
Tickets Alert: Virtual tours of disused tube stations
Tickets Alert: Transport Museum - late night openings
London's Alleys: Stationers Hall Court, EC4
Red Arrows flying over London for VJ Day on Saturday
North London buses pumping electricity into the National Grid
Public Street Art: Antony Gormley's Resolution
Tickets Alert: Heritage Open Days announced
London tube map based on the stars in the skies
A tribute to William Blake under the railway arches
Step inside Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage
A lump of old stone in a 1980s office block
A steam train of lights to delight this winter
Last few days to save a modernist icon
Now is the best time for Londoners to visit museums and galleries
London's Alleys: Brydges Place, WC2
Cheap train tickets on LNER during August
Social distancing signs in museums and galleries
City of London outlines plans to merge police and courthouses
Tickets Alert: Fires, bells and spinning wheels
Visit St Bride Church's ancient crypt and museum
MPs debate improving southern rail links to Heathrow Airport
Tickets Alert: London Craft Week
Demolished mansion house's cellars in Cranford Park to open to the public
HS2's giant tunnel wall completed next to the M25
New home for the House of Illustration
TfL launching a social distancing travel app
An end in sight to the railway's wrong sort of leaves on the line problem?
Restoration of the Crystal Palace Subway gets under way
London's Alleys: Bedford Court, WC2
July 2020
First concept designs for Smithfield Market cultural centre unveiled
Support the campaign to bring a vintage tube train to Epping
Avoid commuting into Waterloo station this Christmas
London's Pocket Parks: St Dunstan-in-the-West Burial Ground, EC4
Waterloo station testing a new style trains departure screen
Museums of London and Docklands to reopen next month
Review: Masculinities at the Barbican
Design Museum to open late throughout August
Sponsor the Skynet satellite, or the Red Arrows
The disused North Woolwich railway station is up for sale
See Charles Dickens in technicolour
Hayward Gallery reopens in August with deals for NHS and locals
London's Alleys: Shoulder of Mutton Alley, E14
TfL needs an additional £2 billion to keep running until next April
Museums visitor numbers jumped - last year
Crossrail to miss Summer 2021 launch due to lockdown delays
Tickets Alert: Midnight Apothecary returns to the Brunel Museum
Paddington station reopens western exit following Crossrail works
Venues that won't sell tickets to single people
Housing development planned for London Transport Museum's Acton depot
Tickets Alert: Cycle around Kew Gardens
Now there are two reviews into TfL's finances
Big office development for Crossrail construction site
Crossrail is leaving Finsbury Circus gardens
New section of the Thames Embankment is named after Joseph Bazalgette
Put a tube train's treadplate in your doorway
Crossrail seeks an additional £140 million for surface works
Hampton Court Palace reopens to the public
Three rooms of mushrooms reopens at Somerset House
London's Alleys: Plough Court, EC3
Barbican conservatory starts weekday openings
An Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs
Shoreditch's Village Underground is converting into a cycle park
Find Augustus Pugin's home in central London
London Overground's GOBLIN to close for 10 weekends
Tickets Alert: Tours of historic Trinity House
Find the Dorothy Annan murals in the Barbican
Thames Clipper service extending towards Barking Riverside
Kensington's big three museums announce their reopening dates
Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car exhibition
Queen Victoria's private railway station at Nine Elms
Buckingham Palace starts selling its own gin
Charles Dickens Museum reopens with a new exhibition
Pushing ahead with the London Overground upgrade
London's Alleys: Ball Court, EC3
Crossrail's 5-week blockade to catch up with lockdown backlog
Tickets Alert: Art Tour of the Belmond Cadogan Hotel
A grand Coat of Arms on a car park
Brutalist icons in wood and concrete
The Londoner hotel - Leicester Square's tall blue tower
Pox populi: Georgian London as a haven for sexual diseases
Creative industry bailout could save 100,000 London jobs
Proposal to reopen Camberwell railway station
Tube should be driverless - says Prime Minister
The tube station signs inside a McVities factory
Tickets Alert: Tours of a 250-year old embroidery house
London's Alleys: Lime Street Passage, EC3
Isle of Wight tube trains could return to London
Tickets Alert: First ever wander around Highgate's West Cemetery
Ride on one of London's minature steam trains
South Kensington tube station upgrade planning application filed
Find the Sasan Gir railway station in central London
Giant letters of Love, Hope & Joy for Covent Garden
Peckham Rye railway station upgrade moves closer
The myth that Hitler wanted Senate House as a Nazi headquarters
June 2020
Euston station's 1960s parcel ramp demolished for HS2
London Underground's Northern line extension construction restarting
Millwall football club mural for railway arches
London's Alleys: Rupert Court, W1
Watch a steam locomotive fired up for the first time 80 years
London's museums and galleries reopening dates
A floating swimming pool for Canary Wharf
A trip to a socially distanced London Zoo
Former Jubilee line construction site to be redeveloped
London City Hall could move to the docklands
Unbuilt London: The new Buckingham Palace
TfL step closer to takeover of Great Northern line into Moorgate
Museum of London gets permission for new £337 million home
London's Pocket Parks: Ewer Street rain garden, SE1
Check out this London tube map made from a working circuit board
Tickets Alert: Christmas at Kew Gardens
London's Alleys: Poppin's Court, EC4
Three large London housing sites get funding
A steel sewer vortex longer than a tube carriage
Stephenson's Rocket made from LEGO
Red Arrows flying over London on Thursday (18th June)
Charlton's coronation drinking fountain
Restoring the Crystal Palace Bowl
You can drive a Bakerloo line train with Train Sim World 2
Eltham Palace gardens reopening to the public next month
Step-free access planned for Stanmore tube station
Plans for office block on top of Southwark tube station
Stonehenge streaming the Summer Solstice this weekend
First of the new South Western Railway trains have arrived
London's Alleys: Lazenby Court, WC2
The DLR has started sealing off the end doors
London City Airport to reopen from the end of June.
New photos show HS2's southern tunnel portal
Rotherhithe's Brunel Museum has expansion plans
London Zoo reopens next week - tickets on sale today
London's breweries offering beer deliveries to the home
Covent Garden to partially reopen from Monday 15th June
No trains from Kings Cross next weekend
Competition to redesign Finsbury Circus after Crossrail leave
Unbuilt London: A gothic iron bridge across the Thames
Construction works resuming on London's transport network
The Queen commands - put dinosaurs on the 50p coins
The time the London Underground reached Windsor
Campaign to pedestrianise Soho for the summer months
Free performances from the Royal Opera House
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car comes up for sale
London's Alleys: Conduit Court, WC2
HS2 wins court case over Euston tunnels design
Covid-19 themed playing cards released for charity
Wearing face masks to become mandatory on public transport
First photo of HS2 tunnel boring machines
Unbuilt London: Elizabeth House, Waterloo
Prints of Art Deco tube stations
First image of the City of London's planned Dagenham markets
London Underground stations starting to reopen
An A-Z of London's fashion alphabet
Garden visits restarting following the lockdown - slowly
Crossrail trains cleared to use the Heathrow tunnel
Kew Gardens and Hampton Court Palace gardens reopening
Higher fares for commuters to fund London's transport upgrades?
London's Alleys: Braidwood Passage, EC1
May 2020
Protection for Richmond Park's ancient burial mounds
Plans announced to demolish and move East Croydon station
More details about TfL's £1.6 billion bailout emerge
Avoid Euston station in the evenings next week
Drive-in cinemas coming to London
Plans to build flats on Arnos Grove tube station car park
Shepherd and Sheep in Paternoster Square
London Underground seeks ideas to remove heat from its tunnels
Andy Byford named as the new Commissioner of Transport for London
See inside an huge underground water reservoir
Royal Iris - the Mersey ferry rusting away on the Thames
Museum of London's pandemic exhibition goes online
The anniversary of the last public execution in the UK
Funding to upgrade the railway between Watford and St Albans
Longer TfL Rail trains on the line to Reading
Southbank Centre could be mothballed without urgent funding
London's Alleys: East Passage, EC1
Crystal Palace dinosaur damaged by vandals
Refurbishment of the Northern City Line tunnels completed
Campaign launched to save a steam railway
Plumstead's mysterious ice-age Slade Ravine
Old Oak Common's "super-hub" station for HS2 approved
New railway station at Brent Cross West gets approval
When Londoners would rent pineapples instead of eating them
There's a huge model of Thunderbird 4 in Thamesmead
How Crossrail coped with the Coronavirus closure
Nine day railway closure in south-east London announced
Bring some farm animals to your next Zoom call
London's Alleys: Richardson's Mews, W1
HS2 project management criticized by Parliament committee
Is BBC4 imperiled by BBC cuts?
Your chance to name a train, or a HS2 tunnel boring machine
Transport for London agrees £1.6 billion government bailout
Approval granted for London's tallest Green Wall - 26 floors high
The unsolved murder of the Dulwich Hermit
South Western Railway’s new rail depot at Feltham
Check out the Pay it Forward scheme
Unbuilt London: The Waterloo monument
TfL projecting loss of £4 billion due to virus lockdown
Rebuilding Shadwell DLR station
TfL outlines plans to cope with the post-lockdown commute
Watch Gresham College lectures from home
London's Alleys: Royal Exchange Avenue, EC2
Red Arrows VEDay flypast over London on Friday morning
Restoring Abbey Mills pumping station's Victorian splendor
Photos of London's docks during WW2
Find Thamesmead's newly added concrete animals
The Museum of London's new home - past, present and future
Make your own Modernist buildings from LEGO
Unbuilt London: Brutalist Whitehall
Watch the virtual feeding of the royal pelicans
A new London Underground entrance for Euston Station
Tube fares could rise as London reopens from the lockdown
Take a virtual tour around the Great Exhibition of 1851
Transport themed backgrounds for Zoom calls
London's Alleys: Andrews Crosse, WC2
Underground car park to be turned into a shopping centre
April 2020
Bake a cake in the shape of a building
Make your own cut out models of old computers
Captain Tom Moore gets a train named after him
Lockdown side effects - toilet paper shortage leads to surge in blocked sewers
Public asked to help record a week in lockdown
British Museum makes 1.9 million images available for free
Approval for Leyton tube station upgrade
Collecting Coronavirus - the Museum of London wants your memories
Spend 20 minutes in the 1960s with the Barbican
London's Alleys: Half Moon Court, EC1
Who wants a tube roundel coffee table?
Southwark Playhouse makes plays available online for free
London Transport Museum's depot goes online
TfL staff to furlough quarter of its workforce from next week
National Archives makes its entire digital archive available for free
Support a London museum during the lockdown
The decade a volcano erupted in South London
TfL warns of Coronavirus cash crunch
See the Architecture the Railways Built
Additional trains for Southeastern
Take a drivers eye trip along the Mail Rail
Unbuilt London: Covering Regents Park with housing
Transport for London to start furloughing staff
Transport Museum offer for ianVisits readers
London's Alleys: Sun Alley, TW9
Honest Burgers delivering limited edition burger kits to the home
Book review: The Livery Halls of the City of London
Dunmow delayed - no flitches of bacon for 2020
Pre-order the London Open House Weekend guidebook
The origins of graves and burials being six feet under
Garden centre collective delivering plants to the home
300th anniversary of Covent Garden's notorious brothel coffee house
HS2's contracts awarded - includes £3.3 billion London tunnels
London's Pocket Parks: King George's Fields, Rotherhithe
Why the Old Bailey is called the Old Bailey
British Rail's short experiment with travelling pubs
A cluster of brick buses outside Leytonestone Station
London's Alleys: White Lion Court, EC3
Vauxhall bus station set for demolition
Tutankhamun exhibition goes (slightly) online
Free rail travel for people fleeing domestic abuse during the lockdown
Natural History Museum wants to put a dinosaur in its front garden
Archeologists discover pottery from London's earliest farmers
Some of the fun of the fair in your home
Unbuilt London: Replacing Tower Bridge with a tunnel
Remarkable 3D images of dinosaurs
The demolished Bryant & May Testimonial fountain
Railway landslip uncovers 14th century Christian shrine
Help the National Archives uncover WW1 ships crew logs
London's Alleys: Craven Passage, WC2
Rail travel in London down by 95%, buses down by 85%
Transport for London debt put on review for Coronavirus downgrade
Novo Beth Chaim - the Jewish cemetery inside a university
The tradition of the celebratory Ox Roast
March 2020
Sci-Fi style scale model of North Greenwich
How the London Underground tried to extend the Bakerloo line to Dartford
Barking Creek Barrier: London's lesser known flood barrier
Southeastern and GWR get franchise extensions
London's Alleys: St Alban's Court, EC2
Isolationists online videos of theatre plays and musicals
See Sir Pindar's Home in the V&A Museum
London Public Art: Queen Anne in Queen Anne's Gate
London Underground themed jigsaw puzzles
It's the 200th anniversary of Mornington Crescent
Crossrail construction suspended due to Coronavirus
Another public roof garden planned near St Paul's Cathedral
Is HP Sauce really named after the Houses of Parliament?
Sharks in the Regents Canal at Haggerston
Government suspends rail franchises due to Coronavirus
London's Alleys: Gower Mews, WC1
Lecture videos to watch from home
TfL giving small businesses three months free rent due to Coronavirus
Train services to be cut from next week due to coronavirus
Unique piece of buried treasure goes on display at the V&A
Major upgrade planned for Lewisham railway station
The memorial stone outside George Lansbury House
TfL closes 40 tube stations, suspends the Night Tube, fewer trains and buses next week
Put Thameslink on the tube map says London Assembly
London Public Art: The Broad Family
London Underground switches on mobile phone coverage in tube tunnels
London's Pocket Parks: Barton Green, KT3
London Bridge station archeology on show
Florence Nightingale's 200th birthday in 200 objects
Taking a look inside Crossrail's Farringdon station
Lightboxes and Lettering: The importance of East London's print industry
Plans to add new entrance to Hackney Central railway station
Sharp drop in London Underground and bus passengers due to Covid
London's Alleys: Cobb's Court, EC4
The Pimlico & Belgravia Eye Magazine
Sadiq Khan confirms train fares to rise after the Mayoral election
Today's the 50th anniversary of the Highgate Vampire
The V&A looks at the story of the swimming pool
Visits Cathedrals across England at night
Take a tour around the Chelsea Pensioners home
Lower Thames Crossing gets funding in the budget
Tickets Alert: Tours of Goldsmiths Hall
Stone - the new wonder material for buildings
Childhood in Dickensian London at the Senate House Library
New Cross Gate towers cancelled due to Bakerloo line extension uncertainty
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
More trains on the Jubilee line between Nth Greenwich and Stratford
Temporary river bridge at Hammersmith for cyclists and pedestrians
Roof garden at 120 Fenchurch Street to remain open at weekends
Tickets Alert: Free entry to the Transport Museum
London's Alleys: Johnson's Court, EC4
New London Underground roundels for International Women’s Day
Heat from London Underground tunnels to warm homes and schools
Dine inside the House of Commons this Easter
Public art for Latimer Road tube station
Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined
See the three Armada Portraits together for the first time
Tickets Alert: Open days at the Trasport Museum's overflow depot
Days out of London - High Wycombe
New London Overground trains for the Liverpool Street–Cheshunt service
London Bridge station's giant soft-toy train set
Mating toads closes road in South London
Exhibition shows off South Kensington tube station plans
Tickets Alert: Hyde Park Estate Gardens
London railway upgrades – a progress report
London's Alleys: Cowper's Court, EC3
February 2020
Seven additional London stations to get improved access
Cold War bunker open days confirmed
More strikes on South Western Railway (SWR) announced
Thames Water archive photos now available online
Enter a ballot to visit 10 Downing Street's back garden
Day trips from London - West Wycombe & the Hellfire caves
Win a ride in an Intercity 125 drivers cab
Grosvenor Square revamp to go ahead
Plans to restore British Railways sign at Gipsy Hill station
Heathrow rail link funding uncertain
The 60th annual Miglia Quadrato returns in May
Tickets Alert: Tweed Run - a classic cycling conviviality
London's Alleys: Cliffords Inn Passage, EC4
Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust's historic homes
Fresh images of the new railway super-hub at Old Oak Common
First Tube roundels installed at new Northern line extension stations
Exhibition of Gail Brodholt's transport and architectural prints
Wider pavements for West End streets
Imber Bus returns - old buses traveling to an abandoned village
The day Superman saved a London Underground train
London Overground's GOBLIN to resume service on Wednesday
Tube strike from this Friday on the Bakerloo line
Floodlighting Rotherhithe for the Mayflower's 400th anniversary
TfL pushes on with Tram extension to Sutton
Restoration of the Crystal Palace subway moves forward
Ticket Alerts: Chelsea Pensioner tours
London's Alleys: Barnard's Inn, EC1
Take a trip in a vintage tube train to Heathrow airport
London Public Art: Sir Thomas More
New entrance planned for Romford rail station
Tickets Alert: Ig Nobels and the Festival of Bad Ad hoc Hypotheses
Campaign to save a Victorian community hall
London Underground selling its moquette by the metre
Sainsbury's development threatens Bakerloo line extension
Tickets Alert: Help re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
Take a look at Woolwich's new Crossrail station
Charles Dickens Museum acquires 25 previously unpublished letters
Tickets Alert: Attend the Dunmow Flitch Trials
London's Alleys: Turk's Head Yard, EC1
Tube strike on the Bakerloo line announced
All the Royal Parks to be closed on Sunday
Plans to banish buses from outside Victoria Station
See Tangerine Dream at the Barbican
New images of London Underground's new Paddington entrance
Farewell to the Tooley Street footbridge
Plans to extend DLR to Thamesmead advance
The history of executing people to open in the autumn
An exhibition of costumes at the National Theatre
Additional funding for Elephant and Castle tube station upgrade
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who and The Talons of Weng-Chiang
UCL building a lab full of old tube trains and planes
London's Alleys: Marigold Alley, SE1
January 2020
Tickets Alert: Retro computer games return to the Science Museum
Heritage panels tell the history of Marylebone railway station
Admire Rochester Row's 1960s concrete frieze
Approval for hotel covered in plants
London's Pocket Parks: Royal Victoria Gardens, E16
Huge archive of old military maps published
Museum Meals: London Transport Museum
Appeal logged to build the Tulip skyscraper
A decade of London in Google Street View
London's Alleys: Wilks Place, N1
City of London updates plans to move its markets to Dagenham
South Western Railway may lose its license
More police on the London Underground reduces crime
The 2020 calendar of the City of London ceremonies
East London's unused heliport and unbuilt bridge
Landscape photographer of the year
Government plans to close Newhaven Marine rail station
TfL planning more tower blocks on its car parks
Epping Ongar Railway reports record visitor numbers
This Sunday - English Civil War march along The Mall
HS2 costs rise, reports delayed, but what's the alternative?
See the Winter Lights at Canary Wharf
Cheap train tickets on Greater Anglia trains
London's Alleys: Frimley Street, E1
GWR offering train tickets from just £5
See a Finnish steam train in Barking
Day trips from London - Wendover
An exhibition looks at the evolution of playtime
Museum Meals - Charles Dickens Museum
Star Trek takes over a London Underground station
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2020
V&A exhibition looks at the Theatre Stage
Museum of London submits application to move to Smithfield
London's newest train station - Barking Riverside
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of building sites
How many Harry Potter fans were injured trying to get to platform 9¾?
Unseen photos of London’s construction history
London's Alleys: Nun Court, EC2
Play giant arcade games in a former Royal Mail delivery office
Crossrail updates opening date again - now Summer 2021
Help design HS2's railway bits
Day trips from London - Great Missenden and the Roald Dahl museum
The Swan mural on Max Bygrave's old home
Plans for a post-meat market Smithfield unveiled
Marvellous and Mischievous at the British Library
Gun Salutes in London during 2020
New medicine gallery opens at the Science Museum
Take a trip on London Underground's Watford North Curve
Half price entry to Hampton Court Palace
Report calls for more investment in London's public transport
More delays for Crossrail - won't open until late 2021
London's first permanent "City Trees" soak up pollution
Free London travel for disabled people's carers
London's Alleys: Crown Court, EC2
Last chance to see the Raphael cartoons for a long time
The Science Museum's "tube map" of the Solar System
London's Pocket Parks: Gallions Hill and Reach Park, SE28
December 2019
Exhibition - Beatrix Potter's Art: 'drawn with design'
The misguided environmental protests against HS2
New entrance opens at Finsbury Park railway station
London's Alleys: Queen's Yard, W1
A turbulent priest appears at the British Museum
Underground reservoir in London revealed
West Hampstead overground station upgrade completed
Smithfield's annual Christmas Eve auction
Huge tunnel to be dug under South London
The Tide, Greenwich's pointless folly
London railway upgrades - a progress report
Early porcelain head goes on display at the V&A
O2 to offer phone calls in London Underground tunnels
London's Alleys: Argyle Walk, WC1
Syd's century old coffee stall is saved
Watford Junction station could become a "super-hub"
London's Pocket Parks: Hatfields Green, SE1
Expanding IBM's brutalist office on the Southbank
A memorial to the legend of Vincent Square
Ticket Alert: Tours of Canada House
London museums open over Christmas
TfL expects Mayor's fare freeze to end in 2021
Tangerine Dream coming to the Barbican next year
See "Father Christmas" fly over London on Christmas eve
See fist-fighting mice on the London Underground
London's Alleys: Crawford Passage, EC1
Help complete a narrow gauge railway for South London
The medieval St Giles Cripplegate inside Barbican
More trains on the London Overground
What to do in London on Christmas Day
Watch a power station demolition
The best brutalist staircase in London
Behind the scenes at Crossrail's Liverpool Street station
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the BFI Southbank
Smithfield’s Christmas Eve meat auction returns for 2019
London's Alleys: Moorgate Place, EC2
Tickets Alert: Sir David Attenborough at the Royal Albert Hall
Transport Museum offer for ianVisits readers
Major disruption for King's Cross station during Jan and Feb
The 600th anniversary of the Christmas tree
Intercity 125 train restored to original British Rail livery
London Public Art: The Pimlico Priapus
The first Christmas card goes on show in London
New tube map released - now reaches to Reading
Exhibition about plans for 55 Broadway
The Clash: Museum of London Calling
The London Underground in LEGO?
Tickets Alert: The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race
Crossrail unveils a Dead Man's Penny
London's Alleys: Tokenhouse Yard, EC2
November 2019
Tickets Alert: Winter fair inside Parliament
TfL forcing all Oyster card users to reset their passwords
Helicopters over Central London on Friday
Cycle Hire discounts on Friday and through December
London's Pocket Parks: Cremorne Gardens, SW10
Map of London's buried archaeology
The four staircases of Holborn Viaduct
Tickets Alert: Photography at Sir John Soane's Museum
London Underground themed clothing released
The less than iconic Icon Outlet at the O2
An Italian drawing of the Great Fire of London for sale
A field of glowing roses comes to London
London's Alleys: Barbers Alley, E13
New rail link to Heathrow faces delays
Crossrail delays to cost TfL up to £750 million in lost fares
New map shows tunnel boring machines under the Thames
Go behind the scenes of Piccadilly Circus tube station
London Underground lets children redesign the tube roundel
Henry VIII's "Field of Cloth of Gold" coming to Hampton Court Palace
Statue of Queen Alexandra in Whitechapel
Additional entrance for West Ham station planned
Dine like an MP in the Houses of Parliament
London Underground shows off the story of Marble Arch
London's Alleys: Corbet Place, E1
Greenwich to get a full house of Queens
More trains on the London Overground from next week.
The UK's largest optical telescope - is in London
Westminster tube station adds a splash of Africa to its roundels
Fewer shops on Oxford Street in £3 billion revamp
The St James's Market Pavilion
See a Mercury mission spacecraft in the Science Museum
Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street
London's Pocket Parks: Ropers Gardens, SW3
Tickets Alert: Tours of the hidden parts of Moorgate tube station
National Portrait Gallery to close for 3 years
Parcel delivery points coming to London train stations
London's Alleys: Long's Court, WC2
Crossrail warns of more delays and cost overuns
Visit Chelsea's Caryle's House
TfL starts renting out railway arches
Exhibition Review: Tutankhamun comes to London
A month of strikes on South Western Railway
Those odd looking security barriers
20 geeky Christmas gifts for Londoners
Exhibition Review: Notgeld and the farting coppersmith
Tickets Alert: The Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral
Tracking smartphones is helping TfL update it's Journey Planner
See the London Underground as it was in the 1960s and 70s
Pedestrianising Shoreditch's Arnold Circus
More trains on the Victoria line during rush hours
Skeletons found inside the Tower of London
London's Alleys: St Benet's Place, EC3
October 2019
Was Buckingham Palace built on the site of a gay brothel?
More upgrades for Denmark Hill station
See inside the Museum of London's new Farringdon home
Listen out for Stephen Fry on the London Underground tomorrow
London's Science City at the Science Museum
Chelsea's Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More
Sink into Victorian nostalgia at Pollock's Toy Museum
Using the London Underground to improve broadband speeds
Tickets Alert: The Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London
The Two Ronnies on a tube train
Have you seen the Open Infrastructure Map?
Garish Holborn kiosk to be replaced with hexagons
London's Alleys: Dollar Bay Place, E14
Tickets Alert: Go on board a tall sailing ship
The British Empire and animal collecting
Westminster tube station turned into a jungle
The King Edward VII Jewish Memorial Drinking Fountain
The roundel that got cancelled
See St Paul's Cathedral lit up this weekend
See inside St Bartholomew-the-Less church
Crossrail operator changes its name
The story behind the Earl's Court TARDIS
Channel 5 - Then & Now: Keep London Moving
See photos of abandoned engineering
Photos from inside Paddington's Crossrail station
Shoreditch's Star Wars Stormtrooper Sale
London's largest ever Bronze Age hoard discovered
Network Rail's design competition for train station benches
London's Alleys: Crescent Row, EC1
Silvery spiral stairs for East London's Museum of Childhood
Concrete office block by London Bridge to be demolished
See the Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
HS2 triggers the final voyage for Australia explorer
Revealing a lost Elizabethan theatre in East London
London railway upgrades - a progress report
More tower blocks planned for Bankside
West Hampstead Overground goes step-free
Have you met Heal's bronze cat?
Exhibition: The revival of ceramics on building facades
Book review: Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground
Visit the subterranean London Silver Vaults
Tickets Alert: Opportunity to photograph inside Westminster Abbey
Europe's largest green wall planned for London hotel
Tickets Alert: Train trip into the Jubilee line's overrun tunnels
Bakerloo line extension seeks to go beyond Lewisham
London's Alleys: Keppel Row, SE1
A stained glass phone box has appeared on Embankment
Have you ever spotted a saint's washing line?
Discover a disused London Underground station in Covent Garden
Climb down Dover's "Grand Shaft"
Old trains and a countryside ramble
Samuel Pepys dinner plate goes on display
Day trips from London - Dover Castle, the largest castle in England
Eternal graffiti: A poetry exhibition at the Maughan
Mapped - the dragons that surround London
Beatles themed manhole cover for Abbey Road
London's Alleys: Hand Court, WC1
London's bonfire night firework displays 2019
30th anniversary of the 10 Downing Street gates
London Overground to run Boxing Day services for the first time
The Wallace Collection to be allowed to lend its artwork at last
London's mainline stations to get free Wi-Fi coverage
Help colour in London's buildings
Hampstead Observatory to reopen
More evidence that HS2 is more about capacity than speed
Go inside the military tunnel under Dover's forts
The Bacton Altar Cloth - Elizabeth I's lost dress is revealed
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes at Tower Bridge
Freemen take sheep across London Bridge
September 2019
A shopping centre under Cavendish Square?
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Boar's Head Playhouse archaeological excavation
Train speed record set between London and Bristol
London's Alleys: Exchange Court, WC2
Hackney Central Overground station could get a second entrance
Experimental hydrogen powered boat visiting London
Tickets Alert: Chance to go inside the King's Observatory
Tickets Alert: Somerset House to allow ice skating at 3am
TfL rail to take over GWR services to Reading from December
See inside the derelict Royal London Hospital
Tickets Alert: Have a Nightmare before Christmas
Moorfields Eye Hospital could move
Ticket Alert: Tours of Canada House
Hornby has a model railway at St Pancras Station
More congestion for the DLR at Bank tube station
Half price travel on C2C trains in October
Tickets Alert: New Years Eve fireworks
Isle of Wight to retire its 1938 era London Underground trains
Train punctuality shows sharp drop as new reporting method hits
Tickets Alert: Doctor Who screening - The Curse of Fenric
London's Alleys: Hare Place, EC4
Things to do OUTSIDE London in October 2019
London Underground tests new design information boards
The Regents Canal totem poles at Kingsland Road
Crossrail on target, but warns of risks
Visit St James's Church Piccadilly
Bexleyheath railway line to close for 9-days in February 2020
The Clink Prison Museum is unexpectedly good
Plans to reopen the Brentford to Southall railway
Find Mendelssohn's tree stump in the Barbican
Take a look at the Crossrail station under Bond Street
TfL sells off its 55 Broadway headquarters building
Monty Python's Flying Exhibition hits the Southbank
Photos from London Underground's Bank station upgrade
London's Alleys: Tower Court, WC2
Are you a married couple worthy of a flitch of bacon?
Day trips from London - The colleges of Cambridge
There'll be a Victoria line train outside Olympia next week
Inside London's own Notre Dame church
Was the Northern line nearly named after Tutankhamun?
Bromley Hall - the oldest brick building in London
Exhibition about Islington's lost Music Halls
Find the Blackwall tunnel plaque
Fenchurch Street station destined for a makeover
TfL’s Lost Property Office is to move to a new home
Stolen Moments - Namibian music history untold (1950-80s)
Plans to close the Charing Cross station underpass
London's Alleys: Angel Court, SW1
New art for new London Underground stations
London trains destined for football stadium car park
Pay a visit to St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
London Underground plans green roof for Old Street tube station
Rowland Emett’s fantastical railway saved for the nation
Admire the "Wedgwood chapel" in Greenwich
Harry Potter and his adventures on the London Underground
Book review: No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street
Tickets Alert: A guide to London Transport's moquette patterns
London's Alleys: Newman's Court, EC3
August 2019
TfL warning of fewer trains on the Met line next week
Pop-up garden appears in London Bridge station tunnels
Tickets Alert: Vampyr in an old operating theatre
Admire the magnificent Dawson Heights
Tickets Alert: Silent era railway films with live musical accompaniment
Olympic Park's Orbital legacy foundering
Day trips from London - Cambridge's computer museum
Express train service linking London to Luton Airport
Tickets Alert: Food festival inside the Tower of London moat
The year a London Underground train appeared in a ZX Spectrum
Barbican's conservatory is now open on Saturdays
Tickets Alert: Monty Python season coming to the BFI Southbank
See the astonishing gothic interior of David Parr house
London's Alleys: Cosmo Place, WC1
For 3-days only - visit a Heinz Beanz museum pop-up
Tickets Alert: The Dark Crystal exhibition
A gothic house made from concrete
Help rechalk the Cern Abbas Giant
Things to do OUTSIDE London in September 2019
Visit Greenwich's Painted Hall
Crossrail releases railway progress update
Sheep and cattle grazing in Green Park this week
Taking a look at HS2's huge Old Oak Common station
Open House London bookings list
A book about London Underground's famous Moquette
London's Alleys: Rose Court, E1
More frequent trains and a new station for the London Overground
Reduced service at Warren Street tube station from Monday
Day trips from London - Coggeshall: A barn, a church, a manor and a village
Victorian art for the modern world - De Morgan goes digital
Giant "sugar cube" to house London Underground ventilation systems
Tube strike announced for Central and Victoria lines
Tickets Alert: Peppa Pig and Blade Runner in a vintage cinema
Testing a solar powered railway
Day trips from London - Tiptree's Jam Museum
Tickets Alert: Tours of the BT heritage & archive centre
See inside Crossrail's Whitechapel station
Watch a power station demolition
London Underground posters – Special offer for ianVisits readers
London's Alleys: Great Turnstile, WC2
Day trips from London - Tilbury Fort
See vintage films about the River Thames from the BFI archive
Box in a box to avoid Crossrail vibrations
Restoration of the Aldgate water pump
A month of free travel on the London Overground
Rare inscribed Roman stylus found in London goes on display
Southeastern rail franchise extended - and cancelled
Ilford's oldest building - the Norman era hospital chapel
Tickets Alert: The Third Man 70th anniversary screening
Tickets Alert: Guided Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
A lunar exhibition of moon rocks and art in Greenwich
New photos show the current state of Crossrail stations
Rare watch goes on display in the Science Museum
New entrance opens at West Hampstead station
London's Alleys: St Olave's Court, EC2
Tickets Alert: Affordable vintage train trips
For sale - tube train carriage with fireplace, slightly used
Tickets Alert: The Wrath of Khan - with William Shatner Q&A
Vintage London Underground clocks to be added to Chadwell Heath station
Tickets Alert: Evening openings at St Paul's Cathedral
Walter Gilbert's ornate mahogany doors at 32 Cornhill
July 2019
Local Museums - Redbridge Museum
Tickets Alert: Evening history talks inside Tower Bridge
325 object to mark 325 years of the Bank of England
Tickets Alert: Pennywise coming to Waterloo station's tunnels
Bishopsgate Goodsyard revises development plans
Sir John Soane's Museum going tickets only from August
Unusual train on the Met line this August Bank Holiday
Marble and Mosaic - design tours of Westminster Cathedral
Tickets Alert: The XKCD author is visiting London
London Underground gets approval for Colindale station rebuild
London's Alleys: Cranbourn Alley, WC2
William Morris and the Bauhaus are coming to London
Great Pelicans have doubled in numbers in St James's Park
Watford High Street station to close for repair works
London's Pocket Parks: Bassishaw Highwalk, EC2
The ancient church serving modern lunches
Stanmore tube station to convert car park into flats
Visit Europe's oldest continually used Synagogue
Final Crossrail costs are "unknown" warns report
Tickets Alert: Manga on the Big Screen
HS2 railway to get a driverless shuttle service
The three smallest monuments in St Paul's Cathedral
Tickets Alert: City of London Police open day
There's a barbecuing "steam train" in Moorgate at the moment
London's Alleys: Whitcomb Court, WC2
Things to do OUTSIDE London in August 2019
Mobile phone coverage coming to London Underground tunnels
The car repair shop with horses heads
Blocks of flats for High Barnet tube station
Driverless: Who is in control?
Avoid King's Cross station over the August Bank Holiday
The past and future of Thames Bridges
It's one month until ImberBus day!
London Underground's Northern line extension - a construction update
The year St Paul's Cathedral nearly lost its dome
Major upgrade of Gatwick railway station approved
The "Tulip" skyscraper is blocked by Mayor of London
Tickets Alert: A virtual flight though the history of flight
Ride a new "steam train" in South London
London's Alleys: Quality Court, WC2
Tickets Alert: Lord Mayor Show grandstand seats
The Museum of the Moon at the Natural History Museum
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes at Piccadilly Circus tube station
Three historic documents go on show
Street lamps are being covered in plants
London railway upgrades - a progress report
See spies and spooks at the Science Museum
Holborn road junction getting a "super crossing"
Jubilee line train drove with doors open due to 'poor training and tiredness'
Rolling bridge proposed for East London
Rowland Emett's fantastical railway to go on display
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of the Geological Society
Chatley Heath semaphore tower saved
Boris Johnson wanted gargoyles on London Bridge station
London's Grand Designs: Building a Capital City 1675 to 1986
War of the Worlds comes to the London Underground
London's Alleys: Ship and Mermaid Row, SE1
Holy mini glowing tube roundels Batman!
Visit Guildhall - London's oldest non-ecclesiastical stone building
Visit England's only 18th century hospital chapel
Sir Thomas Gresham: Tudor, Trader, Shipper, Spy
London's Pocket Parks: St Vedast Alias Foster, EC2
Red Arrows to fly over London for Pride
You wont see most of this new science exhibition
Horniman Museum shows off expansion plans
Inside The Londoner, a new hotel for Leicester Square
A cast iron Victorian men's urinal
Bank tube station upgrade project reaches half-way mark
A chance to go inside the derelict Smithfield Meat Market
London Overground moves closer to building a West London extension
Tickets Alert: The Clangers on IMAX, introduced by Sir Michael Palin
London's Pocket Parks: Khadija's Garden, N1
Tickets Alert: A light, smoke and sound display at Crossness
London's Alleys: Chichester Rents, WC2
June 2019
Tickets Alert: Chihuly Nights at Kew Gardens
Second entrance at Putney Station moves a step closer
Bidders invited for new railway tunnel to Heathrow
The magnificently restored Roman Catholic Church of St Monica
London Underground unveils a Johnston font memorial
Inside the building site that's the Geffrye Museum
Whatever happened to the traditional shop awning?
A book of cinema architecture - Odeon Relics
Moquette socks are back in stock
50 years ago - planes start flying between Heathrow and Gatwick
A memorial to the Kindertransport at Liverpool Street
Trial pedestrianisation of Camden High Street
London's Alleys: Fairchild Place, EC2
Canary Wharf cycle bridge delayed due to funding shortage
Postcards as art and politics at the British Museum
What's on OUTSIDE of London in July 2019
Tickets Alert: A railway treasure trail
Museums by Appointment – The Honourable Artillery Company
Tickets Alert: Tours of a Royal Navy ship
Hotel plans for Strand office block by Charing Cross station
Major upgrade planned for Norwood Junction railway station
Granada Tooting - A palace to the golden age of cinema
Tickets Alert: One evening only bicycles allowed into Kew Gardens
Help save the world's last sea-going paddle steamer
DLR station upgrade funding approved
Tickets Alert: Watch films in a restored chapel
London's Alleys: Panyer Alley, EC2
Engineering train travels full length of the Northern Line Extension for the first time
Past and present photos of Crossrail construction sites
Tickets Alert: Tours of a particle accelerator
TfL to order a fleet of new DLR trains
Centre Point Tower letters to be sold off
Thousands of doors to open to the public in September
A mysterious door appears at Bank tube station
Saving the UK's last working semaphore tower - in South-West London
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Lloyds Register building
See a Steam Train on the London Underground next weekend
City of London to pedestrianise part of Finsbury Circus
Tickets Alert: Emerge - a night time arts thingamajig
London's Alleys: Dyer's Buildings, EC1
Hot air balloons to fly over London on Sunday morning
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday
London Transport Museum makes hi-res photos available online
London's Pocket Parks: Alf Barrett Playground
Transport Museum looks at how Thameslink untangled the tracks
Museum of London wants the Trump Baby Blimp
Secret Rivers at the Docklands Museum
Special events to mark Tower Bridge's 125th anniversary
A look inside the 42-story Stratford skyscraper
Plans shown off for a bridge across the Thames at the Barrier
St Paul's Cathedral drops photography ban
150th anniversary of the repeal of the wig powder tax
London's Alleys: Three Cups Yard, WC1
There's a Spitfire fighter plane inside London Bridge station
May 2019
Now you can use your Fitbit to pay for tube travel
US President's helicopters flying over central London today (31st May)
See the memorial bust to Sir Simon Milton
Money in board games -- a British Museum exhibition
The myth of the famous policeman's coat hook
London Underground's 30th tube map cover now available
The Typographic Dante at the Southbank
More video advertising screens on the London Underground
London's Pocket Parks: Wellington Park, SE18
Exhibition looks at the internationalisation of Charles Dickens
Hot air balloons to fly over central London on Sunday
Future tube posters go on display
Tickets Alert: Apollo 11 documentary with Q&A
Passenger upgrade for Harrow and Wealdstone station
London's Alleys: Ely Court, EC1
Waterloo tube station reopens its Southbank entrance
Queen Victoria as seen on screen at the BFI
Tickets Alert: Climb up the Caledonian Clock Tower
Tickets Alert: Evening talks marking Big Ben's 160th birthday
New trains finally for the London Overground
Pyrotechnics and filming at Tower Bridge
Photos of 1980s-90s London theatre go on display
TfL unveils South Kensington tube station rebuilding plans
The Pilgrim's Progress remembered in Holborn
A memorial to the founder of modern Italy - in London
The V&A explores the future of food production
The rebuilding of White Hart Lane station
A mixed display of Artificial Intelligence at the Barbican
London's Alleys: George Court WC2
What's on OUTSIDE of London in June 2019
Funding secured for new entrance at Stratford tube station
Tickets Alert: Spencer House's gardens open days
London Underground shows off South Kensington tube station upgrade plans
The daftest image of Big Ben you will ever see
Have you seen the Victoria Cross memorial in Euston station
An unexpected corridor in the V&A Museum
Take tours of London's grand Livery Halls
London's Public Art: Steel statues in Woolwich
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Art-Deco Gala Bingo Club, Tooting
Expect gunfire and explosions near Old Street tonight
Meridian Water - London's newest train station to open on Monday
St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury
London's Alleys: Sebright Passage, E2
See a sailing ship at Liverpool Street station on Wednesday
Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of new hotel and cinema in Leicester Square
London's cable car has lost its cables
British Rail era decorations being removed from Northern City line platforms
Day trips from London - Natural History Museum, Tring
Go into the disused tunnels at Charing Cross tube station
Tickets Alert: Tour of a 42-story building
Could East London be about to get a monorail?
A London Underground themed hotel opens
Tickets Alert: Hard Hat tours of the Geffrye Museum building site
London's Alleys: Cheshire Court, EC4
Crossrail appearing on a postage stamp
Cold war bunker open days announced
Day trips from London - Berkhamsted Castle
Hidden London gifts - Special discount for ianVisits readers
History tours of London Zoo now available
Day trips from London - The Bridgewater Monument
April 2019
A 490-foot high "cucumber" is coming to Paddington
Did England's "White Queen" die of the plague?
It's the 40th anniversary of the Jubilee line opening
Smithfield meat market to move out of Central London
Free entry to the Postal Museum during May
New sponsors for TfL's "Baby on Board" badges
See a green man parade through Deptford and Greenwich
Crossrail confirms TWO YEAR delay to opening date
Tickets Alert: Tours of the historic Trinity House
Restoring St. Margaret Church’s 300 year old clock
A calendar of the City of London traditional ceremonies
Prices announced for the Didcot to Oxford Railway’s 175th Anniversary
Queen Victoria’s sapphire and diamond coronet goes on display
See Sir Joseph Bazalgette made from Lego
Your name in an art-deco cinema
Damning report into Crossrail delays
Tickets Alert: More rides on the 1938 art-deco tube train
Tickets Alert: Late nights at London Zoo
Quarter of people "feel awkward" giving up a seat on the London Underground
Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust's historic homes
London's Alleys: Bartholomew Passage, EC1
Things to do outside London in May 2019
The DLR could be extended from Bank to Euston
Reversal as London Overground ticket offices to remain open
Tickets Alert: Tutankhamun tickets on sale soon
Westminster Abbey's Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries
Tickets Alert: Ride the last ever passenger Intercity125 out of Paddington
GWR offering Intercity 125 train window signs for sale
How to get tickets for the 2019 Last Night of the Proms
Fancy owning a Tube roundel coffee table?
Former gasworks turning into entertainment venue
V&A puts Elton John into Room 101
Satellite radar reveals Crossrail tunnels under London
There are now more churches in the UK than pubs
London's Alleys: Cockpit Steps, SW1
An exhibition of railway footbridges at Waterloo Station
London Underground moquette socks go on sale
Crossrail to launch Paddington to Reading service in December 2019
Tickets Alert: Climb to the top of the Tower in Windsor Castle
Major disruption to c2c trains this July-August
LEGO is launching a Trafalgar Square model kit
You can now stand inside Trajan's Column
Tickets Alert: Take Sheep across London Bridge
Tickets Alert: Annual opening of Frogmore House and Garden
Southeastern railway gets temporary franchise extension
London's Pocket Parks: Paradise Gardens, E2
Ever noticed the London Underground trains smaller doors?
St Elizabeth of Portugal Church
More London railway stations to get step-free access
Regular steam trains service returns to Waterloo Station
Stratford's oldest building - the Old Dispensary
Tickets Alert: A week of science in pubs is back
London's Alleys: Harp Alley, EC4
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A steam train of lights to delight in the dark
Help re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
London Underground staff to be balloted for strike over pay
A brief look inside St Mary's Cable Street
Tickets Alert: Tours of Eton College
London Underground getting a new entrance at Euston station
There's a 155 million year old dinosaur inside Heathrow Airport
Events to mark the Didcot to Oxford Railway's 175th Anniversary
A "steampunk" exhibition by a Victorian eccentric
London's Pocket Parks, Bernays Gardens, HA7
TfL's Oyster Card stretches into Hertfordshire
Tickets Alert: London's crafts shown off for a week in May
City gives the thumbs up to the Tulip Skyscraper
Controversy over restoration of Waterloo Station poem
Map of London's miniature steam train rides
Tickets Alert: Tours of Carters heritage steam funfair
Foulness Museum reopens this weekend
The 250th anniversary of London's Gin Riots
March 2019
Crossness - a Victorian "Cathedral of Sewage" reopens this weekend
Tickets Alert: Watch horror films in an old Masonic temple
A zip wire is to run from top of Canary Wharf skyscraper
Find the King's Cross milestone
Reduced entry into Bank tube station from next week
A Vagina Museum is coming to London
Hammersmith turning old railway track into its own Highline
Giant black sphere coming to Stratford
TfL sells off offices above Holborn tube station
A display of poisons and lotions
Crossrail extension to Ebbsfleet gets extra funding
Plans to rebuild Clapham Junction Station shown off
See inside the Our Lady of Compassion Church
Loads of seats coming to railway stations
Newborn kittens found under a London Underground escalator
The old cottage being restored in Plaistow
City of London blocks huge adverts on Cannon Street railway bridge
London's Alleys: Abel's Buildings, E1
Steam trains to return to the London Underground
Heat from HS2 tunnels could provide energy to new homes
Shakespeare's Globe theatre archives go online
TfL sells Crossrail trains to pay for Piccadilly line trains
London Underground's Northern line extension - a construction update
Tickets Alert: Tours of Stationers' Hall
TfL outlines its budget for 2020 - focusing on more cost cutting
Ticket Alert: Tours of Canada House
Suggestions for things to do outside London in April 2019
No trains out of Euston Station over the Easter weekend
Catch a steam train in East London on Saturday
London Underground breaks through its new Bank tube station entrance
Salvador Dalí's champagne lamps go on display
London Underground's glowing tube roundel picks up an award
Tickets Alert: Tours of Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
Admire these illustrations of London Underground tube stations
London's Alleys: Sussex Mews East, W2
Two dates to visit two underground sites in Bristol
James Mason tours late 1960s London
See a vintage tube train on the London Underground this Sunday
Last chance to book for tours of building sites
Rediscovered portrait of Dickens to go on display for one week in April
Funding for homes and a new railway station in North London
Tickets Alert: Tours of modernist London Underground
Disused riverside pier to be restored at London Bridge
A chance to go on board a tall sailing ship
Construction starts on new theatre above Crossrail site
London's Public Art: Weaving Identities
New railway station for East London gets formal approval
Four more London railway stations get step-free access
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Goldsmiths' Hall
See the new(ish) entrance to Waterloo tube station
Open-top underground railway tunnel tours
Tickets Alert: Take a virtual flight to the moon
London's Alleys: Patten Alley, TW10
See inside the restored King's Observatory
Rebuilding the 1950s modernist concrete Barking Station
Tickets Alert: Kew Garden's Great Pagoda reopens
A glowing greenhouse of distorted stained glass
Another consultation on Shoreditch’s Goodsyard development
Tickets Alert: Open Weekend at a railway depot
A hidden chapel and roof terrace to open to the public
The lost history of a mosaic in Victoria
Steam train for South-East London secures funding
More problems for London Overound's Gospel Oak to Barking line
Tickets Alert: Tours of abandoned London Underground tunnels
Huge 200 year old panorama of London to go on display
Exhibition - from the League of Nations to Greenham Common
London's Alleys: Tweezers Alley, WC2
Why a university had to say sorry to a Duke
Tutankhamun exhibition coming to London
February 2019
Tickets Alert: The Boring Conference is back for 2019
London's Pocket Parks: St Augustine Papey, EC3
London railway upgrades - a progress report
New entrance for Southwark tube station to be decided next week
Tickets Alert: First ever opening of the King's Observatory
Tickets Alert: Another chance to ride in the 1938 art deco tube train
Inside the Church of St Anselm and St Cæcilia
Pink Floyd re-release rare London Underground music video
Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from the Millennium Bridge
A chance to visit 10 Downing Street's back garden
London's Alleys: Maggie Blake's Cause, SE1
Taking a trip on the 1938 tube train on the Underground
Staging magic - a magical book exhibition at Senate House
5,120 tonne loading test above Moorgate tube station
See vintage tube trains and buses in London on Sunday
Leonardo da Vinci defying death at UCL
Met Police's Heritage Centre revamps for female police centenary
Derek Jarman gets a Blue Plaque
Elizabeth line roundel spotting
Hollywood movie posters as you've never seen them before
Earliest human skull ever mudlarked from the Thames to go on display
Taking a look at the Elizabeth line's new Old Oak Common depot
London's second quietest train station is set to close in May
London's Alleys: Woburn Walk, WC1
120 Fenchurch Street - London's largest roof garden
TfL mulls DLR and Overground extensions to Thamesmead
New exhibition shows off the golden age of sea travel
Tickets Alert: Tweed Run - a classic cycling conviviality
See the remnants of an old wooden road at Waterloo
Location chosen for new footbridge across the Thames
Tickets Alert: Open Garden Squares is back
Red vests for London Underground staff
Cryptic book illustrations go on display in Freemasons' Hall
New documentary about Crossrail on BBC2 this week
First images of HS2's Old Oak Common station shown off
A history of the South Bank Lion
Plans to extend London style PAYG rail fares to rest of the South-East
Bank tube station's Central line could get step-free upgrade
Help build and destroy a cardboard tower in the City
The surprising reason for London Underground's new heritage signs
Plans to pedestrianise Bank junction in the City of London
Exhibition goes under the skin to reveal the secrets of the human body
Listen out for cannon fire in London on Wednesday
Routemaster buses to drive through a military firing range
London Underground displays the Hutton Panels inside Bank station
Chance to walk though the Post Office railway tunnels
London's Alleys: Colonnade, WC1
A celebration of chemistry in South Kensington
London's newest Cathedral in Chiswick
Demolition for nursery built on Spitalfields graveyard
Tickets Alert: The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race
January 2019
An infinite loop of sunrise and sunset at the Barbican
Westminster Council plans to pedestrianise part of Strand
See the Flying Scotsman in London during 2019
London's last Tudor Great Chamber to be restored
Hear music performed inside a London Underground tunnel
The International Space Station will fly over London this weekend
A decade of delays and a new footbridge for Chiswick Park
Last chance to visit the Wellcome's Medicine Now exhibition
Battersea Power Station to start generating electricity again
London's Alleys: Lewisham Street, SW1H
Photos from the roof of Southwark Cathedral
Steam trains returning to the London Underground in 2019
One of the final Royal Mail ships is visiting London
Persistent gremlins means free travel for London Overground's Goblins
Remains of Cpt. Matthew Flinders, Australia explorer discovered behind Euston Station
Higher fares for less advertising on the London Underground?
Funding for groups marking the sailing of the Mayflower to America
London's Petrie Museum secures upgrade funding
Tickets Alert: Trip in an art deco tube train through central London
West Norwood's Victorian cemetery to be restored
Crossrail artists takeover Selfridges shop windows
Musical tower to replace the Museum of London
London Underground plans major upgrade for Leyton tube station
London's Alleys: Warwick Court, WC1
London Underground building a glazed cube at Euston
Tickets Alert: The Night of a Thousand Cocks
Night time filming at Millennium Mills on Sunday
This Ferrari is covered in a London "tube map"
Proposed Tulip skyscraper breaches London regulations
The UK's "Sistine Chapel" - Greenwich's Painted Hall to reopen in March
London Underground plans upgrade for Marylebone tube station
London's Pocket Parks: Fairchild's Garden, E2
London Transport Museum secures funding for war gallery
Have you seen the tall Victorian drinking fountain at Old Street junction
London Underground collectables come to Selfridges
WW2 bomb map and a Lord Mayor's response to the Armistice
London's Alleys: St Peter's Alley, EC3
Spot the green Penfold letterbox in the City of London
At the sign of the 17th century Castle Tavern
Floodlighting for London's civil war church
Tickets Alert: Pink Parliament Peregrinations
Construction starts on London’s longest river pier
Air pollution on the London Underground worse than on the busy roads
London's Public Art: The Sunbeam Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket
30th anniversary of London’s Air Ambulance
Reigate Caves 2019 open days announced
Landscape photography at Waterloo Station
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of building sites announced
Tickets Alert: Vintage computer games at the Science Museum
London's Alleys: St Paul's Alley, EC4
Gun Salutes in London during 2019
New photos show the future City of London skyline
Tickets Alert: Dine like a politician in Parliament
The London Underground tube map made in a WW2 prisoner of war camp
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony
London Public Art: The traffic light roundabout
The special tiles at London Underground's Bethnal Green station
December 2018
Virgin Trains complains after Manchester United scarf flushed down its toilets
Tickets Alert: Occasional openings of Pope's Grotto
London's Alleys: Swedeland Court, EC2
Free travel on London Transport this New Year's Eve
Your most read articles on IanVisits during 2018
Be a pirate at the Museum of Childhood
Where are the women in London Transport?
Cycle hire hits record high as usage growth slows
Giant "Ice House" discovered under the streets of Marylebone
London's missing museum webpages
List of London councils that collect your Christmas trees
Puss in books in the British Library
Finding the Cyprus Street war memorial
Photos from Smithfield's annual Christmas Eve auction
London's Alleys: Billy Fury Way, NW6
Christmas Telly Past -- a review over the years
Have you ever seen the Mercers' Maidens around London
Free cycle hire bikes over Christmas
Crossness Pumping Station saved -- reopens in 2019
Some tube trains will run on Christmas Day
London Overground extension to Barking Riverside gets go ahead
Support a new steam railway for South-East London
City of London buys an old power station as a site for its food markets
London Bridge's railway signal box restored in York
Strikes on the London Underground over the Christmas
London's Pocket Parks: St Stephen Walbrook's Churchyard Garden
London's Alleys: Magdalen Passage, E1
No, London Underground tube drivers are NOT earning £100,000
The sign of a knight on Warwick Lane
Crystal Palace dinosaurs supported by top hat from Guns N' Roses Slash
New Heathrow airport rail link gets public support
West Hampstead Overground station's new footbridge
Night Overground to call at Whitechapel from tonight
Report claims young people don't visit museums
London's lost church of the 11,000 virgins
Higher fares as London Underground's cash crunch bites
Repairs for a Victorian sewer running above a London Underground line
DLR needs to expand its Beckton train depot for new trains
Crossrail might not open until 2020 and costs are up by £2 billion
Tomb of a Roman girl at The Gherkin
London's Alleys: French Ordinary Court, EC3
150th anniversary of the first traffic lights
A glowing deer made from rubbish in central London
Today isn't the day that the Elizabeth line opens
London Underground releases a new tube map
Giant glowing slugs outside the Tate Britain
An oral history of the London Mithraeum
There will be a heritage bus service in London on Christmas Day
New tower to loom over Waterloo Station
There's a giant brown steel "hedgehog" in Whitechapel
Buy a bit of an old Jubilee line tube train
London's Alleys: Bartholomew Place, EC1
London railway upgrades - a progress report
London Museums open over Christmas
The mystery of the London skeleton still wearing his boots
The curious stone tower on Queen Victoria Street
Dinner with the Charles Dickens Museum
The day German U-Boats passed under Tower Bridge
November 2018
Smithfield’s Christmas Eve meat auction returns for 2018
Bank tube station gets a new entrance under the Bloomberg building
London's Pocket Parks, Jubilee Park, E14
Wear a tube roundel on your Adidas trainers
London public art: The Paternoster Square sundial
Disease X - the next London pandemic?
London Underground's Northern line extension - construction update
London's Alleys: Fernsbury Street alley, WC1
Tower of London's execution site
The restoration of the London Stone
Colindale tube station set for dramatic rebuild
A closer look at the space-age "Tulip" skyscraper
London Public Art: Shadwell DLR's bike shed
London Underground orders 94 new tube trains for the Piccadilly line
It's Museum Shop Sunday this, erm, Sunday
Liverpool Street station's little noticed subway
Space-age tower planned for the City of London
London's Alleys: St Alfege Passage, SE10
Disused London Underground tunnel tours announced
London railway upgrades - a progress report
Give the gift of membership to a London museum this Christmas
The 80 year old tube train that could run on the Underground again
London's Pocket Parks: Granville Square, WC1
Tickets Alert: Tours of an underground farm
London Public Art: Statue of Captain John Smith
London's Alleys: Sugar Loaf Walk, E2
The underground shopping centre next to the Tower of London
New consultation on Shoreditch's Goodsyard development
Northern line to Battersea extension - a construction update
For one week only - see 10,000 flames surround the Tower of London
London's Alleys: Blue Boar Alley, E1
Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of Bethnal Green's Oxford House
Tickets Alert: Crypt tours of St Alfege Church
Big step forward for a bridge to the Crystal Palace dinosaurs
Teeth of the parasitic Lamprey fish found in central London
Museum of London raises £15 million for new building
The DLR is getting a new station and more trains
Exhibition - Ribera: Art of Violence
City of London to trial an ultra-low emissions only road
October 2018
Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is up for sale
Tube strikes on Central, Piccadilly and Waterloo & City lines next week
TfL opens consultation for extension of the South London tram
The tube station with a piece of Roman Wall in it
When plywood and plastic ruled -- at the V&A
London Public Art: The Whitechapel Threads
London's Alleys: White Rose Court, E1
The Crockett's Leathercloth Works War Memorial
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Crossrail secures additional loan to complete the railway
Refugees as art in Spitalfields
London's Pocket Parks: St Andrew's Gardens, WC1
The tube station with a sheet of iron from a warship
Win tickets to an IMAX screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Art in the Age of Computers at the V&A Museum
London's Alleys: Artillery Passage, E1
Sir Quentin Blake draws scientists for the Science Museum
Glass elevator for one of Battersea Power Station's chimneys
London Bridge station tunnel opens to the public
Plans for new cycle and pedestrian bridge over the Thames
The memorial to a failed North-East Passage
Photos of the disused King William Street tube station
See the Barbican in a golden glow
The Great Storm tree at Charing Cross station
50 years since the abolition of censorship in the theatres
London's Alleys: Bengal Court, EC3
Military exercises on the Thames later this month
Climb a 680 year old tower overlooking the Thames
Major disruption to Victoria Station over Christmas
Unseen drawings commissioned by the Bank of England go on display
Behind the scenes at London Underground's Bank tube station upgrade
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of Tower Bridge
London's Alleys: Puma Court, E1
Climb to the top of Severndroog Castle
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes at the Old Royal Naval College
Tickets Alert: Handel's Messiah at St Paul’s Cathedral
The Sun blazes into the Science Museum's new blockbuster exhibition
Tickets Alert: See 2001: A Space Odyssey on an Imax screen
Go inside the ruined St George's Garrison Church in Woolwich
Shrewsbury Tumulus - the Bronze Age burial site in the middle of a housing estate
Tube strike announced for the Central line this Friday
See inside the refurbished Toynbee Hall
Thameslink's Elstree & Borehamwood station set for upgrade
When your website gets hacked - addendum
Cheap train tickets on Southeastern railway this weekend
London's Alleys: Bear Alley, EC4
September 2018
Freemasonry's bling goes on display
London's 2018 Guy Fawkes night fireworks displays
Tickets Alert: For one night only, a Modern London exhibition
See a humpback whale at Liverpool Street station
Free films in the cinemas this Sunday with the National Lottery
Talks to avert Piccadilly line strike collapse
Unique studio apartment in outstanding location
Harry Potter wands to light the approach to St Paul's Cathedral
Take a peek inside the Bloomberg Building
The last Tsar, the death of the Romanovs at the Science Museum
Last chance to ride the old Woolwich Ferries
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of the Hackney Empire
Tickets Alert: Flames to fill the Tower of London's moat
Tickets Alert: Guided tour of vintage steam funfair rides
Bank branch trains calling at London Underground's Kennington Station again
London Underground plans new entrance for Southwark tube station
Eurostar cheap ticket sale - for couples and groups
Cardboard models of English Cathedrals
Plans to stop websites linking to each other pose dire threat to websites
Tickets Alert: Behind the scene tours of Bloomsbury's Principal hotel
South Western Railway launches two new discount train tickets
Dead bodies go on show as Body Worlds comes to London
Museums by appointment: The London Roman Wall and Bastion
London Underground extension ruled out in favour of more Trams
London's Alleys: Nottingham Court, WC2
A Southbank exhibition of drag artists
New images show the future of the Thames Embankment
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to adorn Carnaby Street
Tickets Alert: Crystal Palace's Concocted Concrete Cretaceous Creations
Immortalized forever - a temporary exhibition
Put your own tube roundels in a frame
The block of flats named after a war hero
British Museum reveals how Asia viewed Europe
Working class heroes at the BFI
Visit Woking's art-deco railway control room
Tickets Alert: Tours of the House of Commons Library
London's (narrowest) Alleys: Emerald Court, WC1
Calls to extend Bakerloo line to Canary Wharf
Tickets Alert: The Long Good Friday
Concrete Reality - Denys Lasdun and the National Theatre
50 years ago - how the Victoria line was built
August 2018
Crossrail confirms 9-MONTH delay to launch date
Tickets Alert: Tours of a disused London Underground tube station
How save money on railways and find cheap train tickets
Shoreditch's Shakespearean theatre to be opened to the public
The concrete church of St Richard's, Haywards Heath
London's Alleys: Star Alley, EC3
Crossrail's history of London - made from paper
One Kemble Street - the "CAA Building"
London's Pocket Parks: Drury Lane Gardens, WC2
Rare clocks going on display next month
Exhibition: At Last! Votes for Women
The buses that run through a military firing range to Imber
London's Alleys: Hayward's Place, EC1
Fantastic Feats: The Building of London
Tickets Alert: Three-day east London history festival
Earlsfield station's railway bridges getting a heritage makeover
The night tube delivers bigger boost than expected to London's economy
Tickets Alert: Sir Peter Hendy's City of London Routemaster Bus Tour
Crossrail: The Art of the Build
Fatberg Live! Watch the living fatberg!
A visit to the Florence Nightingale Museum
London Underground reveals Gareth Southgate tube station renaming cost £10,466
Crossrail's Farringdon site being turned into offices
Inside Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Maiden Lane
London's Alleys: Middleton Place, W1
Inside North Korea... inside Foyles
Trafalgar Square to get a fifth lion next month
The steam train - a magical mechanical marvel
Stepney City Farm secures funding for Crossrail recovery
Tickets Alert: Open Day at the Transport Museum overflow depot
Some Central line trains wont stop at St Paul's tube station until April 2019
London's Alleys: York Place (formerly Of Alley), WC2
The Science Museum has a room full of old washing machines and televisions
Tickets Alert: Tours of Lambeth Palace Library
Unbuilt London: The "railway arcade" above the streets
Queen Caroline's Bath in Greenwich
Tickets Alert: Be transported back to the 1980s at the Transport Museum
Open-air display of Victorian photos from 1840s London
Tickets Alert: Rare open day at a Pathology Museum
London's Public Art: Mary Seacole Statue, SE1
July 2018
Ranger's House - the art collection you've probably never seen
Enter a ballot to march past the Cenotaph on Armistice Day
Railway lines closed in London over the Bank Holiday Weekend
London's Alleys: Blue Anchor Alley, TW9
London Underground earns £80,000 from Gareth Southgate roundel
London's Pocket Parks: Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
The driverless tube train shibboleth returns
Private tourist trains coming to the DLR
London's Alleys: Devereux Court, WC2
New skyscraper to sit next to Leadenhall Market
Tickets Alert: Gin tasting at Dr Johnson's House
Red Arrows flying over East London on Saturday
Art-Deco tube train returns to the London Underground
London Public Art: Union - Horse with Two Discs
The London church named after a French Saint
Play with the Science Museum's new random science image generator
London's railway upgrades - a progress report
London's Pocket Parks: Aldgate Square, EC3
350 years of the Blue Coats celebrated at the Museum of London
Get up close to the Sikh Empire at this outstanding SOAS exhibition
New exhibition looks into the death of the Russian Royal Family
Day trips from London - Avebury Stone circle
London's Alleys: Tyler's Court, W1
Disappear Here - Playing with your perspectives at RIBA
Courtauld Gallery closing for two years
Exhibition - 450th anniversary of the Tylers and Bricklayers
Kew Garden's remarkable concrete bridge
Scratched photos of asylum seekers in a church crypt
Over 3,000 buildings opening their doors for Heritage Open Days 2018
London's weekly railway news #261
Tickets Alert: Cheap annual tickets to the Transport Museum
The dragons have returned to Kew's Great Pagoda
Greenwich's Maritime Museum to expand by 40% in September
London Public Art: The Cordwainer
Tickets Alert: Free talks about Big Ben in Parliament
London to get a new Science Gallery this September
London's Pocket Parks: Christchurch Greyfriars Churchyard
A second cheesgrater skyscraper for London
A thatched roof for a megalithic stone
Moaning about Monet at the National Gallery
Piccadilly line drivers to strike this week from Wed to Sat
For one day only - 50p tickets to the Hayward Gallery
Euston station will be closed for three weekends over the summer
Sneak preview of Crossrail's new Tottenham Court Road station
London's Alleys: White Horse Alley, EC1
Plans to revamp Olympia exhibition hall shown off
The ancient tradition of cleaning the Uffington Horse
Elizabeth line opening date set for 9th December
London Underground one step closer to Holborn tube station upgrade
London's weekly railway news #260
London's Pocket Parks: Emma Cons Gardens, SE1
Late openings at St Paul's Cathedral in the Summer
A new exhibition space opens in central London
Tickets for the Last Night of the Proms to go on sale this Friday
Women in Parliament - an exhibition inside Parliament
It's about to become easier to visit The Gherkin
London's Alleys: Lovat Lane, EC3
A giant orange nappy-wearing Donald Trump coming to London
June 2018
Huge panorama of London goes on sale
Today marks 15 years of Oysters on the London Underground
Crossrail extension to Ebbsfleet gets support from government body
Just two days to see Kew Garden's "rotting corpse" flower in bloom
Woolwich ferry to pass through Tower Bridge
Win a chance to sleep the top of the BT Tower
London's weekly railway news #259
Crosrail's three new yellow maintenance machines
Three months left for "once in a lifetime" chance to see the Painted Hall
Prince of Wales’s London home opens to the public
London's Pocket Parks: St Dunstan-in-the-East
Details released for RAF's 100th birthday flypast over Central London
Last chance to see the FATBERG!
London Public Art: Modern Marriage
London railway upgrades - a progress report
Do Londoners dream of electric buses?
London's Alleys: Herbal Hill, EC1
The splendour of the East arrives at the Queen's Gallery
Unbuilt London: The Southwark Railway Terminus
Competition to design a railway footbridge
London's weekly railway news #258
When a WW2 tunnel full of salads meets modern art
Thames Tideway’s tunnel boring machines lowered 53 metres into the ground
Tickets Alert: Steam boat trips on the Thames
New fleet of London Overground trains shown off
London's Pocket Parks: Christchurch Greyfriars Garden, EC1
A Brit lost in a haze of American landscapes - Thomas Cole at the National Gallery
Making posh Grosvenor Square more welcoming to visitors
New Bank tube station entrance in final stages ahead of opening
Tickets Alert: Climb the 200 foot high Victorian tower at Kew Bridge
Crossrail ventilation shaft crowned in purple wildflowers
London's Alleys: Hat and Mitre Court, EC1
Oliver Cromwell's funeral banner goes on sale
See inside Crossrail's Farringdon Station
Modern art decorates Regent Street
London Underground places £1.5 billion order for new Piccadilly line tube trains
London's weekly railway news #257
Local students design posters for Elizabeth line trains
London public art: King Edward VI
This Tudor London map overlay is marvelous
Tickets Alert: Free theatre tickets for children
Tube strike - CANCELLED - on the London Underground this Thursday
What's it like to attend the Trooping the Colour?
New artworks installed by Crossrail in the Elizabeth line stations
Glow in the dark tube roundels go on sale
London's Alleys: Greenhill Rents, EC1
50th anniversary of Oxford Street's Protein Man
St Paul's Cathedral loses its bells
Tooting Common’s Jurassic era fossil tree to get a restoration
London's weekly railway news #256
Ride a rare railway with Chiltern Railways on Sunday
London Underground has covered a tube station with fried eggs
Disused WW2 tunnels used as "Windrush hotel" opens for tours
London Public Art: Leake Street, SE1
TfL's smartphone app getting an upgrade
London's Pocket Parks: Albert Square Gardens, E1
Peckham's own "highline" moves forward to being built
Tube strike could knock out the Jubilee line on Wednesday
Tickets Alert: Five steam trains coming to Epping
London's Alleys: Passing Alley, EC1
See the views from the top of a church clock tower
Crossrail 2 reviewing route options following consultations
Tickets Alert: Tours of Pugin's House of Commons Library
London's weekly railway news #255
May 2018
Banksy's greatest hits coming to London
The death of Romans reveals the multicultural origins of London
London Public Art: SOE Memorial
Open Day at the Army’s training Academy at Sandhurst
Showing off the Thames Tideway Tunnel Boring Machines
London's Pocket Parks: US Embassy Gardens, SW11
Eton College has started offering public tours
Three churches near Biggleswade
DLR station upgrade in pictures
London's Alleys: Bull Inn Court, WC2
City office block swapping cars for bicycle racks
The year football was banned in London
Look out for hot air balloons flying over Central London
London's weekly railway news #254
See the latest photos from Crossrail/Elizabeth line stations and tunnels
The year a DLR train visited Manchester
London's Pocket Parks: St John's Churchyard, EC1
Two 19th century pumps in the countryside
Japanese prints of London in 1866... are very Japanese
Tube, Tram and Rail upgrades approved by TfL
A calendar of London's outdoor cinema screens for 2018
London's Alleys: Gwynne Place, WC1
Hackney Wick's brutalist new London Overground station opens
Day trips from London - Winchester
Sublime Victorian pottery fills the Guildhall
Day trips from London - Queen Anne's Summerhouse
Thameslink to get a new station in North London
30th Anniversary of the Thameslink service
Free tours of art in the Clapham WW2 tunnels
London's weekly railway news #253
London Underground tests a signalling upgrade
Planet Mercury space probe comes to London
Tickets Alert: Spencer House Gardens Open Days
There's a museum to Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin
The future starts here? Or does it?
Vintage tube train arrives at the Epping Ongar railway
Vivid landscape photos of WW1 battlefields
London's Alleys: Warwick Passage, EC4
City of London mulls making Bank traffic ban permanent
Visit an abandoned railway tunnel and viaduct
Expect gunfire and explosions near Old Street on Tuesday
Tickets Alert: Chance to climb a church tower
Southwark Playhouse secures new permanent home
London's weekly railway news #252
Elizabeth line's new train depot opens for business
AOP50: Images that Defined the Age
London Public Art: Monument to the Unknown Artist
250th anniversary of the Massacre of St George's Fields
Visit this retro-futurist computer art exhibition
Canary Wharf's solar powered bus shelter
London railway upgrades – a progress report
Westminster Abbey invites time travellers to Stephen Hawking's memorial service
London's Pocket Parks: Bankside's Metal Box Garden
Large scale Twitter bot farm targeting Londoners
Tickets Alert: The Urban Tree Festival
A new exhibition about Heathrow Airport's history opens
Tickets Alert: Rare railway tour planned
More upgrade works for Victoria tube station
Censored photos from the 1930s to go on display
London's Alleys: St Augustine's Path
Consultation on redevelopment of Tesco Kennington
Ticket Alert: The Chap Olympiad 2018
Excavated clay from London’s super sewer being used to make art
Solid blocks of colour mark 20 years of Paul Catherall's art
Disused tube station cleared ahead of construction works
New rail link to Heathrow from Reading consultation opens
London's weekly railway news #251
London Public Art: Woman with Fish by Frank Dobson
Work starts on new entrance for Paddington tube station
London's Pocket Parks: Joseph Grimaldi Park, N1
Thames Tideway tunnels open day
Museums by Appointment - The Memorial Scrolls Trust
April 2018
London's Alleys: Amoy Place, E14
Selfridges Flipside explores the age of luxury
Tickets Alert: Visit the UK's largest particle accelerator
Tickets Alert: Annual opening of Frogmore House and Garden
London's weekly railway news #250
London Public Art: The Paternoster Vents
New exhibition shows off Captain Cook's collections
London's Pocket Parks: St John's Garden, EC1
It's Priority Seating Week on London transport
London's Alleys: Hen and Chicken Court, EC4
Photos from the disused tunnels now helping the Bank tube station upgrade
Tickets for the 2018 Last Night of the Proms
London's weekly railway news #249
See some military aircraft in Guildhall Yard this weekend
Bee hives on the roof of Waterloo Station
Typography as art - exhibition in Shoreditch
London Public Art: The flowering of the English baroque
Everything you (probably) didn't know about... Trafalgar Square
Computer game style art display coming to Gloucester Road tube station
London's Pocket Parks: 15 Clerkenwell Close
Try a bit of stone or woodcarving with the Prince's Foundation
Have you seen the Metropolitan Arcade at Liverpool Street Station?
Westminster Abbey gets a new tower
Abbey Road Studios photography exhibition
London's Alleys: Castle Court, EC3
Concrete Dreams at the Southbank Centre
Unbuilt London: The "figure of eight" tube line
A multi-sensory exhibition -- might be good
See an original Gin Lane, while sipping a gin
Rare London Underground poster by Man Ray up for sale
London's weekly railway news #248
London's Public Art: Chromorama
Network Rail takes over Clapham Junction station ahead of upgrade
London's Pocket Parks: St Leonard's Priory, E3
Modern videogames retrospective comes to the V&A
Fancy nearly 100 pints of science?
See a century of Nordic design for children
London's Alleys: Harringay Passage, N4
The true story about Trafalgar Square's "smallest police station"
Pay a visit to the British Dental Museum in central London
East London's Minnie Lansbury suffragette Memorial Clock
Lego, postboxes and 3d maps - 150 years of the Chartered Surveyor
London's weekly railway news #247
How to get into Tower Bridge for a Quid
See the "Glimpses of Eternity" in Westminster Abbey
Map of London's miniature steam train rides
London Public Art: Dr Salter's Daydream, SE16
Have you met Robert the tank engine at Stratford?
Under the Microscope - science as art
Tickets Alert: Open Day at the National Physical Laboratory
London's Pocket Parks: Altab Ali Park, E1
See a Georgian Miscellany of Medicine
Huge military flypast over London in July
A stone obelisk with a hidden secret
Army Museum shows off the secretive work of the Special Forces
London's Pedways are back - and they're magnificent
London's Alleys: Priest's Court, EC2
Calls for London Overground extension to Lewisham
Plans to open central London's secret limestone caves to the public
March 2018
The makings of the welfare state - an exhibition at the LSE
Sharing the joy of the post-war prefab homes
More support for Crossrail extension to Ebbsfleet
An art gallery in an old railway station
London's weekly railway news #246
London's Public Art: Bethnal Green's Portrait Bench
Tours of a Roman bathhouse resume this weekend
London's Pocket Parks: Ebury Square Gardens, SW1
The last Crossrail exhibition opens at the Transport Museum
London Overground station at West Hampstead getting a new entrance
The ancient Stationers' Hall opens up for public tours
More hidden London Underground tours coming soon
Arty dog kennels on display at St Pancras station
London's Alleys: New Bell Yard, EC4
Yto Barrada's bizarre exhibition at the Barbican
London steam railway set for major extension
270 years ago today - the forgotten fire of London
Public open day at Crossrail's Custom House station
Admire the arts & crafts workshops behind Liverpool Street station
Science as art at the Wellcome Collection
London's weekly railway news #245
London Public Art: Evidence of the Unseen Mountain
16 new photos show off Crossrail stations and tunnels
Join a mass participation artwork to mark 100 years of woman's suffrage
London's Pocket Parks: Mount Nod - the Huguenot burial ground
Wimbledon's tennis museum to be redeveloped
Exhibition celebrates the discovery of blood circulation
Museum Meals: The Charterhouse
London's Museum of Funeral History
Help re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
London's Alleys: Sugar Bakers Court, EC3
A decade of roundels in Stanmore tube station
London's first "City Tree" - a pollution absorber with the power of 275 trees
Elizabeth line confirms it will cap fares at Oyster card rates
London's weekly railway news #244
Creepy Dr Who-esque exhibition at the Museum of London
London railway upgrades – a progress report
Crossrail art exhibition opens in Whitechapel
Steampunk visions of London's future
Art Deco, Modernism & Brutalism in London's suburbs
London's Public Art: Allen Jones Aerobic
Your chance visit the private gardens at 10 Downing Street
Public access to the medieval ruins of St Alphege church
Final two artworks announced for the Crossrail project
Half price sale on Virgin Trains from Thursday
Network Rail connects existing rail network with Crossrail tunnels
Encounters with Ayurvedic Man at the Wellcome
Another Crossrail station tour announced
Exhibition - Welcome to the underworld
London's Alleys: Church Entry, EC4
Unbuilt London: The Legal Quays at London Bridge
Exhibition marks 150 years of St Pancras (International) Station
Animal fats and testicles turned into art
London's weekly railway news #243
Ghostly WW1 figures unveiled at St. Pancras station
London Public Art: Man with Arms Open
An update on the latest Northern line extension construction works
Disused tram tunnel restored by Crossrail
Developer chosen to upgrade South Kensington tube station
Tickets Alert: Interactive art thingy on the Barbican Highwalks
How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the earth
Tickets Alert - 2001: A Space Odyssey with live music
London's Alleys: Shepherdess Place, N1
Tickets Alert: Women on the railways
Tickets Alert: The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race
Developer wants to build over the tube tracks in Kensington
London's weekly railway news #242
February 2018
Mayor outlines Crossrail and Tram extension plans
Take a sneak peek at Canary Wharf's new Elizabeth line station
London's Pocket Parks: Fen Court, EC3
Watch the first live test of an Elizabeth line train in the Crossrail tunnels
Book tickets for the annual Tweed Run
Richmond Council is closing a road for some mating toads
London's Alleys: Pedley Street Arch, E1
Unbuilt London: Heathrow's rail links to central London
Tickets Alert - Light and music show in a road tunnel
Exhibition looks at when the railways delivered coal with style
London's weekly railway news #241
London Public Art: Statue of James Greathead
London's Pocket Parks: Seething Lane Garden, EC3
Behind the hoardings tours of Canary Wharf's Elizabeth line station
Tickets Alert: Women's Suffrage exhibition inside Parliament
New exhibition tells the story of East London's "Old Flo"
Banking crisis for Northern line passengers
London's Alleys: Hartshorn Alley, EC3
Reopening the Piccadilly line's disused York Road tube station
Approval given for South Kensington tube station upgrade
London's weekly railway news #240
Westminster Abbey's medieval Triforium opening to the public
Spring open weekend at the Transport Museum's overflow depot
It's Alive! Frankenstein festival fills the Science Museum
New pedestrian bridge planned for Canary Wharf
London Overground's night trains extending to Highbury & Islington next week
Modernism tours of the London Underground
London's Alleys: Mason's Yard, SW1
Cycle hire bikes now arriving in Brixton
Early colour photographs of East London on display
80th anniversary of the first science-fiction show on BBC TV
A chance to design the Oxford Street Christmas Lights
Take a trip on the Flying Scotsman in 2018
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. ROLL UP, ROLL UP the FATBERG is in town!
London's weekly railway news #239
Lettering reflecting the personalities of the London Underground lines
Miniature steam trains for Epping
A public toilet in Tottenham is set to become a new pub
London's Pocket Parks: Brewers Hall Garden, EC2
Crossrail building site to become site for 1,500 new homes
England's 17th century attempt to reach the moon
Watch a video and sound event underneath Tower Bridge
London's Alleys: Crown Passage, SW1
The golden age of the Ocean Liners comes to the V&A Museum
Is it time to restore Collop Monday as an English tradition?
1868 - the year that your socks could kill you
Tickets Alert - Tours of Churchill's abandoned WW2 bunker
London's weekly railway news #238
Look out for steam trains on King's Cross passenger concourse
London Underground aims to deliver super-fast broadband through tube tunnels
January 2018
Go back in time with these old tube maps
Elizabeth line property developments quadruple predicted levels
London's Pocket Parks: One Coleman Street Gardens, EC2
Shakespeare's Shoreditch theatre found to have extra large stage
Increased capacity on the Northern line from this evening
London's Alleys: Rose Alley, EC2
Walking the Lea Valley - East India Dock Basin
Looking back on a year of the night tube
Unbuilt London: The MARS plan to rebuild the entire of London
Pots with Attitude - Georgian satire at the British Museum
One final chance to go on a Crossrail building site tour
London's weekly railway news #237
Next phase of the Victoria tube station upgrade opens to passengers
Donald Pleasence and Christopher Lee on the London Underground
London Public Art - Landed by Les Johnson
Tickets Alert: Vintage computer games return to the Science Museum
New Elizabeth line tube maps show phased service launch
London's Pocket Parks - St Mary Aldermanbury, EC2
London railway upgrades - a progress report
Tickets available for Clapham tunnel tours
Watch Shakespeare inside Westminster Abbey
Tickets Alert: First ever winter openings of Pope's Grotto
Another tunnel boring machine prepares to dive under London
See how the Elizabeth line roundels are made
London's Alleys - Doby Court, EC4
Tickets Alert: Underground (1928 film)
75th anniversary of the Catford school bomb
A bakers dozen tube stations to go step-free by 2022
Imberbus confirms 2018 trips through a military firing range
London’s weekly railway news #236
Heathrow Junction - London's short-lived railway station
How steam trains drove Victorians to acts of madness
London Public Art - Bellerophon Taming Pegasus
Crossrail hands over major West End site to Derwent
£200,000 competition to smarten a railway bridge
Build your own Routemaster bus
London's Pocket Parks - Garden West of 25 Cannon Street, EC4
Drink bad beer and eat cockroaches - at the Science Museum
The Lord Mayor's Annual Gresham Lecture
Southern Railway tops the league of worst railways
London's Alleys - Mile End Place, E1
Spring-Heeled Jack - the Terror of London
Southwark's Roman sarcophagus to go on display
Long Live Queen James at Banqueting House
Cheaper entry to Westminster Abbey during Lumiere London
How Crossrail's legacy could end up in rural Oxfordshire
London's weekly railway news #235
First train tries out new Northern line extension track
The silence of the bells at St Paul's Cathedral
30th Anniversary Screening of Akira on the Big Screen
Kew Gardens private underground railway
London's Pocket Parks - St Anne & St Agnes, EC2
London's Alleys - Ireland Yard, EC4
Custom House DLR reopens following Crossrail works
Behind the scenes tours of building sites announced
Reigate Caves 2018 open days announced
Barbarella's back on the big screen
Gun Salutes in London during 2018
Why is the Elizabeth line not on the tube map?
Cheap train tickets released by GWR
London's weekly railway news #234
New night tube map cover shown off
Time to book tickets for Royal Ceremonies
London's Pocket Parks - The Goldsmiths Garden, EC2
Final phase of London Bridge railway station opens
Canals, spies & politics - the Crossrails that weren't built
London's Alleys - Crane Court, EC4
December 2017
The photography of Anthony Crickmay at the V&A
Your most-read IanVists of 2017
Hot air balloons to fly over Central London
What is a family -- when visiting a museum?
London's weekly railway news #233
What the City of London's skyline will look like in 2026
Tickets Alert - U-Bahn tunnel tour tickets released soon
Oxford Street pedestrianisation consultation closes next week
London's Pocket Parks - St Mary Staining, EC2
A riot of colour as the King of Bling struts his stuff
Take a trip on the last coal fired twin engine steam tug
London's Alleys - Cock Hill, E1
Does this 17th-century map show an early image of Father Christmas?
Free Book - A short history of Roman London
At £44,995 per person, is this Britain's most expensive train trip?
Photos from the construction of the Piccadilly line extension
Walthamstow Central tube station could get a second entrance
Approval given for new tube station at Battersea
The time your Mince Pies contained mutton, veal and pepper
London's weekly railway news #232
Watch sci-fi movies underneath a flying whale
London's Pocket Parks - Yalta Memorial Garden, SW7
New London tube map includes the forthcoming Elizabeth line
London's Alleys - Mason's Avenue, EC2
Book review: A Short History of Drunkenness
London Museums open over Christmas
Cats playing in front of Christmas trees
Presenting.... the tube map for Christmas Day.
40 years of Flying the Tube to Heathrow Airport
London's weekly railway news #231
Smithfield's famous Christmas Eve auction is back
London's Pocket Parks - Aldermanbury Square, EC2
Euston Station to become a homeless shelter on Christmas Day
Uncovering the hidden remains of Merton Priory
Prepare to be disgusted as the Whitechapel fatberg goes on display
See the superheroes who built London
TfL to charge advertisers £39 million for Elizabeth line advertising deal
London's Alleys - Newcastle Court, EC4
TfL takes over 11 train stations from GWR
Day trips from London - Peterborough
Calls for design to revamp Old Street roundabout
Limited edition Oyster card holders giveaway
Find the Museum at Pooh Corner
Heathrow's Victorian era prison cell
There will be a heritage bus service on Christmas Day
London's weekly railway news #230
London's Pocket Parks - Percival Triangle, EC1
London railway upgrades - a progress report
A glass room full of jewels at the V&A museum
Major test of London Underground signalling upgrade
London's Alleys - Barbon Alley, EC3
New pedestrian route planed for Barnes railway bridge
A history of London's early artificial ice-rinks
Tate Britain goes Kitsch for Christmas
Student art goes on display in a train station
TfL publishes the Elizabeth line Design Idiom
Free offers at 400 heritage attractions in December
London's weekly railway news #229
November 2017
Disused passenger tunnels to be reopened at Knightsbridge tube station
London's Pocket Parks - St Peter Cheap, EC2
One of London's largest ever artworks installed at Paddington station
London's Alleys - Blue Ball Yard, SW1
Banqueting House - last survivor of the Palace of Whitehall
See a steam train on the London Overground on Saturday
Mobile phone coverage planed for the tube tunnels
You wont be sleepy after a visit to the Anaesthesia Museum
London's weekly railway news #228
Hidden in plain sight - an exhibition celebrating nursing diversity
There's a Quincunx for Sir Thomas Browne at the RCP
London's Pocket Parks - The Water Gardens, W2
Photos from the Bakerloo line tunnel upgrades
More advertising screens for the London Underground
London's Alleys - Groveland Court, EC4
Admire this striking building on Cannon Street
Exhibition shows off the history of the Thames River Police
The 750th anniversary of England's oldest law
Half price train tickets with Virgin Trains next week
TfL closer to buying fleet of new DLR trains
Photos - The new Bond Street tube station tunnels
London's weekly railway news #227
Ticket Alert: Disused tube tunnel tours announced
London's Pocket Parks - Cleary Gardens, EC4
New exhibition celebrates Britain's cold-war rocket project
London's Alleys - Little Somerset Street, E1
The festive season comes to docklands Sailor Town
Book review: The river’s tale: archaeology on the Thames foreshore
The decayingly ornate YHA behind St Paul's Cathredal
Give the gift of a London Museum membership this Christmas
V&A acquires a fragment of Brutalist architecture
London's weekly railway news #226
Pedestrian and cyclist crossing planned for the Thames
Tunneling breakthrough for the Northern Line extension
See the triumphant restoration of Roman London's Mithraeum
London's Pocket Parks - Whittington Garden
Booking opens to visit the Temple of Mithras
London's Alleys - Wardrobe Place, EC4
Today's the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest
See the pirate Chocolate Express bus
The naked lady who drew the Moomins
Where the London Underground gets fresh air through an old graveyard
A list of London's fictional tube stations
London's weekly railway news #225
Crossrail archaeology reveals the bleak fortunes of 16th-18th century Londoners
London railway upgrades – a progress report
October 2017
London's Pocket Parks - Tallow Chandlers Hall
London's Bonfire Night Fireworks - The 2017 Displays
When theatre tickets were made from old beer boxes
London's Alleys - Great Bell Alley, EC2
A billion quid groundscraper reveals a lost roman road
Crossrail starts restoration of Kingsway Subway
See the poster girls of London Transport's artistic heritage
London’s weekly railway news #224
TfL speeds up Oyster Card ticket collection
Abbey Wood station - the unexpected jewel in Crossrail's crown
Death and Mortality at the Guildhall Art Gallery
London's Alleys - Shepherdess Walk, N1
50th Anniversary of Quatermass and the Pit
Unbuilt London: Croydon trams extension to Crystal Palace
Book review: Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
Hidden vaults next to London Bridge revealed
Tickets Alert: Chance to walk along a railway track
London's weekly railway news #223
Two new London Overground stations planned for West London
The church still recovering from WW2 damage
London's Alleys - Gunthorpe Street, E1
Some interesting tiling and a secret basement
Exhibition looks at the use of Uncommon Currency in London
A glass case, a dead dog, and Slough train station
Blackfriars Station's hidden Puddle Dock entrance
The cancelled plans for a 300mph hovertrain in the UK
London's weekly railway news #222
Dripping blood on display in Peckham - as Art
See rare Brunel drawings of the Thames Tunnel
Today's the 50th anniversary of the Marylebone Flyover
Hear 140 years of Recorded Sound at the British Library
The Long Reign of Pseudo-Georgian Architecture
London railway upgrades - a progress report
London's Alleys - Three Cranes Walk, EC4
See the Paradigm outside St Pancras station
70 years of celebrating concrete
150th anniversary of St Pancras Station
See ordinary animals as never seen before
Emergency exercise to take place outside MI5 Headquarters
The parish marker of a Rotherhithe church - in Stratford
London's weekly railway news #221
Geffrye Museum to close in January
Jeremy Bentham's mummified head goes on public display
Sir John Soane's Museum to start opening on Sundays
Attend the ancient Ceremony of the Keys in the Tower of London
Tickets Alert: Hear Handel's Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral
London's Alleys - Catherine Wheel Alley, E1
See Mayfair's little noticed Lutyens Sculpture
September 2017
The project restoring London Underground's Art-Deco era trains
Moorgate's Mighty Bronze Doors
New railway line for West London proposed
Tickets Alert: London's NYE fireworks on sale today
London's weekly railway news #220
How Crossrail is using 3D-printing to build its stations
A pop-up clean air garden at the Barbican
Pickering Place, SW1 - London's Alleys and Passages
Tickets Alert: Celebrate the 50th birthday of the Class 50 locomotive
Go inside the Bank of England's Tivoli Corner
Photos from the Transport Museum's Acton Depot open weekend
The Views from One Blackfriars
Exhibition shows off the unbuilt plans for the V&A Museum
See the plans for a Battersea's Northern line station
London's weekly railway news #219
Plans to use heat from tube tunnels to warm homes
Tickets Alert: Pride at Night at the Houses of Parliament
The future of rail travel will be ticketless
A hidden industrial marvel at Canary Wharf
Behind the scenes Tube Station tours for students
Open House - Going inside Admiralty House
Museum Meals - Barbican Foyer Cafe
Of College Chapels and Steam Trains
London's Alleys - Honey Lane, EC2
A look at Crossrail's Liverpool St Station ticket hall
A modernist marvel - the staircase of Bevin Court
London's weekly railway news #218
Fly through the Crossrail tunnels tonight
Tickets Alert: Boring Talks - An evening of pointless mundanities
The V&A looks at Plywood and likes it
My scariest ever church tower climb
See a scale model of the Royal Albert Hall
Endangered crafts in the UK - cricket balls and riddles
London's Alley's - Cotton's Gardens, E2
A curious door that goes nowhere
See one of the City of London's oldest democratic documents
Balloon Regatta lifts off from London City Airport
Tracking smartphone Wi-Fi signals reveals curious journeys on the London Underground
Hot air balloons to fly over East London on Sunday
London's weekly railway news #217
Britain's 100 best railway stations at the British Library
New TfL app enables mobile tops up of Oyster cards
Tickets Alert: Vintage computer games return to the Science Museum
See modern mosaics in a City of London church
Museum Meals - The Electric Railway Museum
London's newest museum - the Postal and Mail Rail
The shattered bodies of war at the Science Museum
Tickets Alert: Transport Museum depot open weekend
London's Alleys - Steelyard Passage, EC4
A room in the V&A Museum filled with architectural models
Have you seen the dog memorials in the V&A?
The delights of the railways at the Old Oak Common Open Day
London Underground using RATS to clean the Piccadilly line
Free tours of Crossrail stations this month
London's weekly railway news #216
August 2017
Today's the real 30th birthday for the DLR
DLR tunnel to Bank station is being extended
Last chance to book - Old Oak Common railway depot's open day is this Saturday
London's Alleys - Whitechurch Passage, E1
Take a look at Crossrail's Abbey Wood station upgrade
Climbing to the top of Windsor Castle's Round Tower
Covent Garden to get a plant covered building
Eurostar ticket sale - from £29 to France and Belgium
Well, Well, Well, looks what's at the Science Museum
London's weekly railway news #215
Visit the ruins of London's Lesnes Abbey
Tickets Alert - Bird watching and poetry in The Monument
London's Alleys - Fleur de Lis Street
Timelapse video of Crossrail escalators being installed
Take a tour of Coventry's medieval architecture
See the Royal Carriages behind Buckingham Palace
It's the Imberbus next Saturday
The art of mapping London's transport networks
London's weekly railway news #214
Coventry's Transport Museums - The Museum of British Road Transport
Coventry's Transport Museums - Midland Air Museum
Open House London tickets released this week
Coventry's Transport Museums - The Electric Railway Museum
Tudor Palace remains found in Greenwich
London's Alleys - Parliament Court
Tickets Alert: The London Month of the Dead
London's weekly railway news #213
London Overground extension approved for Barking Riverside
A pillared hall full of glittering stones
London's Alleys - Golden Fleece Court
Tim Peake's spacecraft at the Science Museum
New entrance planned for Highbury and Islington station
Photos from the abandoned Highgate station
Poisonous new exhibition opening soon
See a 3D model of Bond Street tube station
See the Tudor monarch's Blood Royal in this exhibition
A library hosts an exhibition about Stationers
London's weekly railway news #212
Legible London Signs orienteering game on Saturday
Free tours of a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Catch the first trains from Waterloo International on Saturday
July 2017
London's Alleys - Fruiterers Passage
The early plans for the DLR to be a Tram not a Train
A dystopian delight of Sci-Fi on display at the Barbican
London's weekly railway news #211
The ghoulish history of London's "Corporation of Corpse Stealers"
Tickets Alert: Vintage trains return to the London Underground
Photos show Crossrail boxes being turned into Elizabeth line stations
Crossrail 2 gets tentative approval to proceed
London's Alleys - Coleman Street Buildings
Crossrail sees record visitors to its mud dumping ground
Southwark tube station's distinctive entrance faces demolition
Winter lights festival to return to London
Unbuilt London: The 1,000 Foot Tall Glass Conference Centre
Tickets Alert: Photography evenings at St Paul's Cathedral
40 Minutes of London Underground nostalgia
London's weekly railway news #210
Stephenson's Rocket is to return to the North
Tickets Alert: Take a Spitalfields journey back in time
Faster top-ups on Oyster Cards
Heritage Open Days - Details Announced
London's Alleys - St Stephen's Row
A church with a routemaster bus stained glass window
History of Europe - Told by its Theatres at the V&A
Data geekery reveals the hidden life of cities
Design for Northern Line ventilation shaft in Kennington released
Behind the scenes tours for young engineers
New Crossrail / Elizabeth line tube map released
London's weekly railway news #209
London Alleys - Essex Street Steps
Roman revels to celebrate opening of the Mithraeum Museum
Scaffold tours of the Kew Pagoda
Music concerts underneath Tower Bridge
Huge underground space to be dug under West London farmland
Ticket Alert: Disused tube tunnel tours announced
London's weekly railway news #208
Cheap train tickets sale at Virgin Trains west coast
London Transport reaches One Billion contactless payments
Photos from South London's forgotten tube tunnel experiment
Elizabeth line gets an extension to Heathrow Terminal 5
ABBA exhibition troops to Waterloo This Winter
New photos from the Crossrail tunnels released
London Alleys - The Nameless Alley
Major upgrade planned for Holborn tube station
A memorial garden on the Isle of Dogs
June 2017
London's forgotten Civil War fortifications - Walk 4
London's weekly railway news #207
London's forgotten Civil War fortifications - Walk 3
London's forgotten Civil War fortifications - Walk 2
Visit the Prince of Wales's London Home
The day a plane landed in the middle of Canary Wharf
London's forgotten Civil War fortifications - Walk 1
Uncovering London's forgotten Civil War fortifications
More details released about Camden tube station's upgrade
Magnetic Wands and Giant Dustbusters for the Underground
Rainbow roundel appears on the tube
London's weekly railway news #206
First Elizabeth line trains enter passenger service
See the Flying Scotsman steaming through Nth London on Saturday
Sheep to be taken across London Bridge
London's Alleys - Prudent Passage
A day trip to - Windsor Castle
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday
London's weekly railway news #205
Tickets Alert: London archive film screenings with live music
Love, law and liberty - Gay literary lives at the British Library
Tottenham level crossing to close as railway station gets upgrade
A chance to help chalk the Uffington White Horse
Cooling the tube - Engineering heat out of the Underground
Tickets Alert: London Transport returns to Ongar
A look around the private Frogmore House Garden
London's weekly railway news #204
Take a ride in the Post Office Railway next month
Tickets Alert: Tours of a Crematorium
There's a garden inside a tube station ticket office
London's Alleys - Post Office Court
The Queen shows off her Canaletto collection
New tunnel opens at Victoria tube station
Old posters uncovered at Vauxhall tube station
Map of London's lost railway depots
London's weekly railway news #203
Electricity gives the Wellcome Collection a Spark of Life
Extraordinary WW1 exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery
Huge science photos adorn the Euston Road
May 2017
A smarter city with not so smart ideas on display
Tickets Alert: Free tours of the Croydon Tramlink Depot
Trees and birds shine through the grime under the Marylebone Flyover
Tickets Alert: Free tours of Parliament on Election Week
Gladiators return to London's Roman amphitheatre
Where's the largest mirror'd pavilion in the Dulwich Village?
The year schoolboys collected conkers for war
London's Alleys - Lumley Court
The Flying Scotsman is visiting London
Three new posters to appear on the London Underground
London's weekly railway news #202
London's Alleys - Talbot Court
See Tunnel Engineering on Display in Westminster
London's weekly railway news #201
Three fireworks displays on the Thames
TfL seeking suppliers for 43 new DLR trains
New tube map artwork shown off
Tickets Alert: Climb the Cally Tower
New TV series about the Crossrail project coming soon
London's Alleys - Nicholas Passage
Clifton Rocks - Bristol's underground funicular railway
200th edition of London's weekly railway news
Tickets Alert: Old Oak Common railway depot open day
Riding the Parliamentary Train out of Paddington
London's Alleys - Pope's Head Alley
Unbuilt London: The Crystal Span Bridge
Tickets Alert: See a Tropical Garden inside St James's Park tube station
London's weekly railway news #199
Dine like a Lord during the General Election
Just two weeks left to ride the Bubble railway line
London's Festival of Architecture - Programme Announced
The day Londoners rioted against foreigners
April 2017
Reflecting on the Russian Revolution at the British Library
A sea of bluebells at Perivale Wood's annual open day
Flotilla of hot air balloons to lift off from London City Airport
Take a bus ride through a military firing range
'Please Offer Me a Seat' badge launched across TfL network
London's weekly railway news #198
Oxford Street could be a black-cab free zone ahead of Elizabeth line arrival
Why did the chicken cross the road? To discover a different London.
Perspectives of Destruction: London during WW2
Tickets Alert: Free Craft Lessons for Londoners
London's Alleys - Great Eastern Walkway
Unbuilt London: The Museum of London's glass tower
London's weekly railway news #197
How to get tickets to the Last Night of the Proms 2017
London to have a "History Day" in May
Tickets Alert: Annual opening of Frogmore House and Garden
See the Doughboys in the City of London
Visit a Museum of Nostalgia in an ancient barn
A Victorian Bath House surrounded by glass and steel
It's the 100th anniversary of Marylebone Tube Station
London's weekly railway news #196
Take a ride on one of London's miniature Steam Trains
From Brunel to British Rail: The Railway Heritage of the Crossrail Route
Rare opening of a derelict Synagogue in East London
Tunelling starts on the Northern Line Extension
Tickets Alert: Spencer House garden open days
Tickets Alert: London Underground's D Stock farewell tour
London's weekly railway news #195
Play with a real Boeing 737 flight simulator this weekend
Tickets Alert: Tours of the mothballed Post Office railway
London's other "garden bridge"
A room full of BBC Microcomputers comes to East London
See the oldest document in the City of London archives
Riding a "ghost train" at Thorpe Park
180th Anniversary of Regent's Park's Lost Railway Station
March 2017
Harry Potter exhibition tickets go on sale on Monday
London's weekly railway news #194
London museums that Open Late in the evenings
Tickets Alert: A Pint of Science
A revamped Army Museum shows off a soldiers life
Another step towards redeveloping South Kensington tube station
A mile long artwork commissioned for Crossrail
The lost "Roman Camp" underneath Heathrow's runway
London museum visitor numbers exceed size of UK population
Stagecoach loses South West Trains franchise
Going inside the Kilmorey Mausoleum
The Barbican sheds infra-red light onto the refugee crisis
London's weekly railway news #193
Tickets Alert: Three Tube Architecture Tours
Unbuilt London: A Garden Bridge across the Thames
Reigate Caves open days announced
Charing Cross Station could be extended across the Thames
The Festival of Britain's Message to the Moon
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Piccadilly and Central line stations
London's weekly railway news #192
New light railway approved for South-East London
The Victorian supper inside a dinosaur
London's weekly railway news #191
Crossrail site tours for young people
Tickets Alert: The Goat Race is back
Take a last trip in the Woolwich Free Ferry
TfL looking to replace its ageing DLR trains
Tickets Alert: Ascend 60 feet to London's largest painted ceiling
Build your own Brutalist London
Virgin Trains discount tickets sale this week
London's weekly railway news #190
February 2017
Turning around Britain's "worst railway"?
Tickets Alert: Tours of 10 Downing Street's Garden
London's weekly railway news #189
Crossrail discovers a lost river and the Grains of Paradise
A cascade of Sami chevrons in the Southbank Centre
North London's unusual transport museum
Elizabeth Line commuters to start their trip with a Latin motto
London's weekly railway news #188
Giant model of a 1960s tower block
How the Regent's Canal ended up carrying electricity instead of coal
Supermaterials on display at the Building Centre
Embroidered Tales and Woven Dreams
Have you noticed the unusual stone benches outside Euston Station?
Final upgrades prepare Tottenham Court Road station for Crossrail
London's weekly railway news #187
Bakerloo Line announces plans for new stations on Old Kent Road
From woolly mammoths to plague to marmalade - Crossrail's legacy goes on display
See the oldest portrait in the British Museum
The rise of the robots at the Science Museum
When London's tube tunnels were painted white
London's rail upgrades: A progress report
See a compendium of craftsmanship in central London
Tickets Alert: Music in a subterranean chamber under Tower Bridge
Take a tour inside a drained canal lock
London's weekly railway news #186
North Greenwich tube station could be rebuilt
Little steam train comes to Kings Cross station
South Kensington tube station upgrade moves forward
January 2017
Why West London is 3 metres higher than it should be
Return to the View from the Shard
The strange part of London that is forever Garden Centre Land
Unbuilt London: The Docklands Southern Relief Road
London's newest museum remembers plague, persecution and philanthropy
Pour your memories into a Tower Bridge Time Capsule
London's weekly railway news #185
Museum of London secures funding for new site
New entrance and redevelopment for Hackney Wick station
Ticket Alert: Behind the scenes tours of building sites
New entrance proposed for Stratford tube station
Northern line extension to Battersea tunneling to start soon
London's weekly railway news #184
Major Victoria tube station upgrade opens to the public
Revealing the Roman Walbrook river under London
A new museum for London opens this month
Camden tube station upgrade moves forward
London's weekly railway news #183
Tickets Alert: Cheap entry to The Shard for a Year
Big upgrade for City of London's Wi-Fi and mobile coverage
Crossrail in a pickle with London Astoria discovery
85th Anniversary of Victoria Coach Station
A nostalgic look at the "office of the future" - 1960s style
Ancient Clay Under London Bridge Station Turned into Art
Tickets Alert - The Ig Nobel Awards come to London
Half price train tickets sale starts on Monday
London's weekly railway news #182
Gun Salutes in London during 2017
The myth of Medieval Small Beer
How to save on your tube commute costs
December 2016
Unbuilt London: Ludgate's iron footbridge
New Elizabeth line train being tested in a huge freezer
London's weekly railway news #181
The silence of the railway departure board
Book review: British Rail Designed 1948-1997
Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome
There will be fun at the British Library with Victorian Entertainments
London's weekly railway news #180
Look out for "Please Offer Me a Seat Badges" coming to tube trains
On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
The early American film star who made it good in London
Unbuilt London: The St Paul's Bridge
A history of ice skating in London
Tickets Alert: Tours of the vaults under the Clifton Suspension Bridge
London's weekly railway news #179
London Museum grows Sea Corals in Shapes of Star Wars Spacecraft
A new cover for the tube map is released
It's Flaming June in London but only until April
400 years of Christmas traditions on display
Magically Marvelous Mechanical Maths
New books about Crossrail archeology released
A memorial to over 500 unmarked children's graves in Tower Hamlets
WW2 film shows London commuters during the Blitz
London's weekly railway news #178
TfL outlines cost cutting and line upgrade plans
Just like that - V&A acquires Tommy Cooper's Fez
The world's largest Lego bridge goes on display in London
What chocolate flavour is each tube line?
Turkey Street - the railway station named after Christmas Lunch
180 years of history on display at London Bridge
Tim Peake's Soyuz spacecraft to go on display in London
Landscape photos on display at Waterloo station
Catching the Tower Bridge free ferry
Just days to save the UK's last WW1 submarine hunter from being scrapped
Exhibition looks at how WW1 supported independence activists
Robert Adam - the man who helped design London
Take a ride through the Post Office Railway tunnels
The Ladybird Life of Charles Dickens: an illustrated adventure
London's weekly railway news #177
November 2016
Support the Bankside Twelfth Night festival
Ticket Alert: Sir David Attenborough Lecture
Bond Street tube station's private tunnel to Selfridges
See a Steam Train on the London Overground
London gets a new museum - of police history
An astonishing display of an obsessive collection of film facts
Elizabeth Line's arrival to see cuts to buses along Oxford Street
London's weekly railway news #176
AIDS quilt goes on display for first time in two decades
Walking the route of Roman London's Wall
Unbuilt London: The Regent's Circus
London's weekly railway news #175
The Silver Swan automaton flies south to London
More hidden tube station tours announced
Commemoration of the Unknown Warrior at Victoria Station
Old tube train carriage turned into school library
London's weekly railway news #174
Hidden tunnel under Shakespeare's Shoreditch theater
New artwork in Piccadilly Circus tube station honours Frank Pick
The Ladybird Book's illustrated life of Charles Dickens
Give the gift of Museum Membership this Christmas
Attend the Ceremony of the Keys
Free London Underground art will be handed out
Elizabeth line's railway station at Abbey Wood taking shape
London's weekly railway news #173
October 2016
A cluster of railway upgrades proposed
A spinning blade of polished steel in St Pancras
The design of London Transport on display
Inside the hidden vaults under the Clifton Suspension Bridge
Take a tour of St Paul Cathedral's hidden Triforum
IanVisits is 10 years old today
London's weekly railway news #172
Teenage bedrooms infest the Museum of the Home
A curious piece of tube history
See inside the restored Queen's House
Gerald Scarfe and Pink Floyd at The Barbican
London's weekly railway news #171
Metropolis Museum's Mysterious Minuted Manuscript
Major new London Bridge junction to open after Christmas
Lawrence of Arabia's Dagger to remain in the UK
One of London's quietest train stations set for major upgrade
Punk retrospective at the Museum of London
Faded memories of art on concrete blocks
Surreal disappointment in The Curve's latest display
Hypnotic Illuminated Islamic art at the Barbican
Old posters revealed by workers at Moorgate station
Unbuilt London: The Twin London Bridges
A memory of childhood boardgames on display
London's weekly railway news #170
West Croydon's Woody New Bus Station
The private monorail tunnel under North London
Hitchcock's murals at Leytonestone tube station
Science Museum's Wonderlab opens to protests about costs
Get up close and personal with the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Your chance to photograph Southwark Cathedral in candlelight
A chance to go inside the concrete marvel that's Stockwell Bus Garage
A day of humiliation and fasting
An underground museum of military history
High speed video shows tube driver's view of the Victoria Line
List of London's Bonfire Night Fireworks Displays
London's weekly railway news #169
A new heritage railway for South-East London
Five new river crossings announced by the Mayor
The time when Routemaster buses came with luggage trailers
Canadian Boris Bikes to be replaced with British Bikes
Meet the team restoring a London Underground signal box
Largest blue topaz gemstone going on display in London
Margaret Thatcher's clothes to go on display
September 2016
See miniature trains carved out of pencils - for one day only
London's weekly railway news #168
"Actually, I think you'll find" - A Purgatory of Pedants
Building Britain's most powerful Steam Train
New museum opening in central London
Tickets Alert: TEDx Talks Come to London
Tickets Alert: Monty Python at Museum of the Order of St John
Unbuilt London: Battersea Power Station's football stadium
London's weekly railway news #167
City of London marks 150 years of Transatlantic Telegraphs
Private fast lane for fast walking pedestrians at Waterloo
Photos from the Crossrail station at Bond Street
Second anniversary of London's contactless revolution
London's weekly railway news #166
Southeastern Asia Puppets Shown off in the British Museum
Fundraising for Frank Pick Memorial
Largest ever Crossrail archeology exhibition to open
90th anniversary of the Northern Line extension
Tube style route maps coming to London buses
Archaeological exhibition opens at Museum of London
TV documentary about the Jubilee Line Extension
Unbuilt London: A giant glass wave over the South Bank
Paralympians as Olympian Gods above a Crossrail station
London's weekly railway news #165
From deep under the ocean come stone benches for London
Great Plague of London found in Crossrail skeletons
Bank of England revamps its banknote exhibition
London Underground to open historic signal box to the public
Visit an art-deco railway control room
London's weekly railway news #164
August 2016
Fresh photos from the Crossrail tunnels released
17th century medical cures to mark the Great Fire of London
Charing Cross tube station's ticket hall to close next month
The last days of Banbury's railway signal boxes
TfL issues "tube map" for walking distances
In photos - the new London Bridge station concourse
The Mansion, The Military, The Museum - Bentley Priory
Tickets Alert: Visit a Victorian Gaol
London's weekly railway news #163
Crossrail offering tours of its building sites
Plans to rebuild White Hart Lane station
South Kensington tube station upgrade moves forward
Crossrail book shows off the finished station designs
A new museum for London - the Heath Robinson Museum opens soon
Revamp for London's largest independent charity
London's weekly railway news #162
Tickets Alert: Three foreign embassies offering free tours
Open House Weekend Bookings Start on Thursday
Huge water cooled ventilation fan installed in the Victoria Line
More police for the Night Tube launch
Tickets Alert: An evening with Professor Stephen Hawking
Another increase in Lost Property left on London Transport
From Tudor Mansion to City Farm - Crossrail's Stepney Revelation
A Month of Death, Decay, Zombies and Skeletons
Tickets Alert: A film about the Crystal Palace subway
Watch a huge panorama of London go up in flames on the Thames
London's weekly railway news #161
From Punk to Modern Day - the Zine Movement
Find the Lost Palace of Whitehall
Unbuilt London: The Pyramid of Death
London's weekly railway news #160
A forgotten railway... the line that starts nowhere and goes nowhere
July 2016
An exhibition of Rowland Emett's crazy railway engines
The hidden delights of Stanmore Country Park
Museum of London seeks to become an AntiMuseum
New LondonIsOpen art works go on display
20 photos of the new Crossrail / Elizabeth line trains
London’s weekly railway news #159
Vintage bus run from London to Imber
Ticket Alert: St Paul's Cathedral offering Triforium Tours
Chance to buy a chunk of London 2012 racing track
A proposal to rename the Northern Line
Crossrail completes Acton railway dive-under
A festival of vintage computer games at the Science Museum
Heritage Open Days -- Details Announced
London’s weekly railway news #158
Museum of London remembers the Great Fire of London
New tube map released -- and tube art tours announced
Photos from Crossrail's Liverpool Street station
London’s weekly railway news #157
Totally Thames festival announces events
Ticket Alert: Steam trains to return to the London Underground
Modern Kazakhstani art appears next to Trafalgar Square
Ticket Alert: Routemaster Tours of Croydon
London’s weekly railway news #156
City of London relaunching archive of old photos
Photos - Fit-out of the Crossrail tunnels
Crossrail, Battleships and West Ham Football Club
A peek inside the design of the Elizabeth line stations
A week of disruptions on London Over- and Under-ground
June 2016
London’s weekly railway news #155
1960s style spy movie art on the Victoria Line
See London attacked by a radio-active dinosaur!
One Hundred Years of Nursing - An Exhibition
A disused railway line - the Belmont Trail
Ticket Alert: Chance to visit a historic railway signal box
London’s weekly railway news #154
Museum of London restores 17th-century fire engine for exhibition
Exhibition looks at the Victorian anti-vaccination protests
Trafalgar Square's traffic lights change for Pride
A discourse on the EU referendum - Part 2
Sheep to be taken across London Bridge
Unbuilt London: The High-Speed Railplane Monorail
Weekly round-up of London's railway transport news
I am the Very Model of a Modern Model Villager
Designs for the new Museum of London go on display
Skullpture at the Grant Museum
London's Alleys - Fitzroy Court
Vintage Royal Mail horse-drawn coach in London
Photos of the disused tunnels at Euston Station
London’s weekly railway news #153
The tiny London museum of ink bottles
Extraordinary photos of WW1 battle fields
Builders discover the original "spend a penny" toilet
Ticket Alert: Go inside two unique Georgian houses
Ticket Alert: Tours of Canada House
The curious tale of Hammersmith's abandoned railway viaduct
Hot air balloons to drift over London on Sunday
London’s weekly railway news #152
Limited Edition Maps to be Hidden on the Tube this Saturday
Oldest reference to Roman London found in new tube station entrance
May 2016
The WW2 fortification in a Nth London park
One of the last Royal Mail ships is visiting London
Photos of London's 70s and 80s subculture
Unbuilt London: The Trafalgar Square Blob
There will be a tube train on Regent Street
Where the Shadows are so Deep at The Barbican
Weekly round-up of London's railway transport news
Ticket Alert: Date announced for a rare tour of a WW2 Bunker
Ticket Alert: The London Clown Festival
Feeding London: our Forgotten Market Gardens
A day in the countryside and a private steam train
Ticket Alert: Tours of the Shakespeare archeology site
London’s weekly railway news #151
Ticket Alert: Tours of Croydon's Tram Depot
Ticket Alert: A Pint of Science
Historic London Bus Heads to France for Somme Anniversary
Photos from the tunnels under Reigate
Ticket Alert: Spencer House Gardens Open Days
Ticket Alert: Croydon Heritage Festival - Trams and Concrete
Chance to test Greenwich's driverless cars
London’s weekly railway news #150
Sliding photos show before/after images of Elizabeth line stations
Ticket Alert: Architecture exhibition at Millennium Mills
See Elizabeth line stations as a Crossrail exhibition opens
Visiting Michael Faraday's old laboratory
Ticket Alert: Alchemy and Magic at Brompton Cemetery
The lost library of the Tudor Magician Dr John Dee
Ticket Alert: Free visits to a disused tube station
Ticket Alert: London Gin Festival
Dare you go into gloomy Sailortown?
Ticket Alert: The Chap Olympiad 2016
London’s weekly railway news #149
Ticket Alert: An audience with Britain's first astronaut
Scale model of Docklands at its Industrial Height
Climbing the Dome of St Paul's Cathedral
Unbuilt London: Vauxhall's Green Giant
April 2016
A Huge Scale Model of the City of London
Places to watch the Transit of Mercury from London
Your name on an underground railway sleeper
Doctor Who exhibition in central London
Flotilla of hot air balloons to drift over London
London’s weekly railway news #148
Horseless Carriages return to site of first London motor show after 120 years
Massively detailed map of London's railways
First ever chance to climb St Paul's Cathedral dome on Sundays
Another Shakespearean Display - of Film Props
Ticket Alert - Fawley Hill vintage steam festival
Ticket Alert: Tube Station Architecture Tours
Unbuilt London: Central London's underground railway loop
London’s weekly railway news #147
Suggestions for things to do outside London in May
Large helicopter formation over London
The birth of photography at the Science Museum
Bagpuss, Clangers and a Steam Train
Photos from Down Street's Disused Tube Station
Jonathan Meades, in Shoreditch, Abroad, Art Again
Ticket Alert: Behind the scenes tours of building sites
London’s weekly railway news #146
Covent Garden Covered in Mirrors
Red Arrows to perform flypast at Pride in London
Ticket Alert: Recite Shakespearean Quotations in the Guildhall
To tube, or not to tube, that is the question
The world's oldest clock museum reopens
Ticket Alert: Disused tunnel tours announced
Could trains come with inflatable rubber seats?
Unbuilt London: The Martian space centre at Bankside
Take a ride on one of London's miniature Steam Trains
Skyscraper made from wood for the Barbican?
London’s weekly railway news #145
Disused tube station to open as art venue
Photos from inside Crossrail's tunnels
30th anniversary of London's pirate TV channel - NeTWork21
Derelict Victorian tunnel to reopen to the public
Unbuilt London: Covering London in a Glass Dome
March 2016
London’s weekly railway news #144
Ticket alert: Sit in a tube train drivers cab
Ticket Alert: Boring Conference
Rare example of early Roman Christianity found in Brentford
Ticket Alert: Free history talks in Westminster Abbey
Tours of the 400-year old Canonbury Tower to resume
Classical concerts on the London Underground
London’s weekly railway news #143
Ticket Alert: Visit a Roman Bathhouse
A long walk to Kent's private Tudor mansion
Day trips from London - Rochester Castle & Cathedral
Unbuilt London: The embankment railway
Suggestions for things to do outside London in April
Flying boats to return to London
Ticket Alert: Dine like a Peer in the House of Lords
Last chance to visit the Design Museum's current home
London’s weekly railway news #142
London Stone to move to the Museum of London
Disused tunnels to be reopened at Knightsbridge tube station
New gallery opening at the Docklands Museum
Battersea's Tunnel Boring Machines shown off
London’s weekly railway news #141
A host of Shakespearean talks and walks announced
Behind the scenes at the City of London
Glass and tapestry from the Worshipful Company of Glaziers
See a slice of Imperial History in the strong box of Empire
Unbuilt London: The fake Venice next to Tower Bridge
Watch a 3D video projection at Guildhall
London’s weekly railway news #140
Chance to climb to the top of the Cally Park Clock Tower
Did Leonardo da Vinci invent the Tunnel Boring Machine?
February 2016
Ticket Alert - The Dunmow Flitch of Bacon Trials
Ancient Egypt arrives at a rarely opened Victorian mansion
See Baker Street's gloomy subway transformed
Ticket Alert: The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race
London’s weekly railway news #139
Serpentine Pavilion 2016 Unveiled
Ticket Alert: The annual Miglia Quadrato
Crossrail is Dead: Long live the Lizzy line
400 years of London compared in two drawings
Paddington's Bakerloo Line station to close for 4 months
Admire the old map next to Liverpool St Station
A discourse on the EU referendum
London’s weekly railway news #138
Taking a look at Crossrail's terminus at Abbey Wood
That Magnificent Leonardo and his Amazing Machines
British Museum's Buried Treasure goes on display
Ticket Alert - The 2016 Tweed Run
Unbuilt London: A Bronze Slab Next to Parliament
Wellcome to your unconscious mind
London’s weekly railway news #137
Ticket Alert - Ig Nobel Award Tour
The longest surviving Vrindavani Vastra goes on display
Ticket Alert - Buzz Aldrin in Conversation with Brian Cox
Ticket Alert - Bach Passion at St Paul's Cathedral
A feast of gold at the British Museum
The past and future of London's roads on display
Unbuilt London: The Georgian Houses of Parliament
Tattoo exhibition at the Museum of London
Roman Fresco Discovered next to Leadenhall Market
Edging Closer to Reopening the Cally Tower to the Public
London’s weekly railway news #136
Flying Scotsman to come to London
Crocodile God revealed at the British Museum
Routemaster bus tours of London's architecture
January 2016
Save the Last Remaining British Rail Hovercraft from Destruction
Chance to Test Greenwich's New Driverless Cars
Parish Notice -- Website Redesign
London’s weekly railway news #135
Gun Salutes in London During 2016
Haunting photos of the planets go on display
London’s weekly railway news #134
Unbuilt London: The Oxford Street flyover
London buses to drive through a military firing range
London’s weekly railway news #133
Down Street Station Tours - T&Cs Change
Solving the mystery of Roman London's headless bodies
100th Anniversary of London Underground's Johnston Font
London’s weekly railway news #132
Fire Stations to Open Doors to the Public
Unbuilt London: Imperial Monumental Halls
Lea Bridge Station opening May 2016
London’s weekly railway news #131
December 2015
Photos from inside Crossrail's Paddington Station
Unbuilt London: The Millennium Tower
London’s weekly railway news #130
Traditional bale of straw added to a Whitehall Statue
Deserted London on Christmas Day
Photos: Smithfield's Xmas Eve Auction
When the trains ran on Christmas Day
WW2 bunker under Clapham to open for regular tours
3D video of the Clapham North deep level shelter
Unbuilt London: The 500 foot high Skyport One heliport
Bank tube station upgrade gets final approval
London’s weekly railway news #129
See a Steam Train on the London Overground this Saturday
Watch the Space Station flypast on Xmas Eve
Unbuilt London: A balloon barrage surrounding the city
London’s weekly railway news #128
New Years Eve London travel sponsors
Unfurling ice-rinks onto the River Thames
A look at Crossrail's critical Acton dive under
A second light festival for London
London’s weekly railway news #127
Awesome Rubber-Band Powered Steam Train
New glass canopy entrance opens at TCR tube station
November 2015
Unbuilt London: A giant pyramid for Hyde Park
Air raid siren to sound over London
Harry Potter exhibition opens in London
See a 3D video projection at The Guildhall
New photos from inside the Crossrail tunnels
London’s weekly railway news #126
Holborn Tests Standing on Both Sides of the Escalator
The Amazing Mr Blunden on telly
Metropolitan line extension secures funding deal
Unbuilt London: Trafalgar Square as a Multi-Storey Car Park
Latest images of future Crossrail trains
London’s weekly railway news #125
Alice in Wonderland exhibition opens at the British Library
Science is beautiful on the Euston Road
Wellcome to Buddhists, Boning, and Bones
Ticket Alert -- Lord Adonis and Norman Foster debate
Unbuilt London: A cable car across the Thames
London at Night from the roof of the London Underground HQ
October breaks London Underground traffic records
London’s weekly railway news #124
Hear Handel’s Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral
Henry V's 'Crystal Sceptre' on display for the first time
Unbuilt London: Turn St James' Park into a giant roundabout
Tickets for a public lecture by Professor Stephen Hawking
How to save a month off your annual travel costs
London’s weekly railway news #123
The "Testing Museum" tests opening on Saturdays
Photos from the Post Office railway tunnels
Unbuilt London: High Paddington
October 2015
London’s weekly railway news #122
Red Arrows might fly over London on Saturday
Brian Blessed to make tube station announcements
Japanese Manga at the British Museum
Free things to do in London this week
Unbuilt London: The Thames Airport
Exhibition about the Occultist Dr John Dee opening soon
New photos of Crossrail tunnels at Bond Street
London’s weekly railway news #121
London Underground Inspired Enameling Masterclass
Ada Lovelace gets her own gallery at the Science Museum
Unbuilt London: The 1960s Fun Palace
London’s weekly railway news #120
Photos of Victorian London from a hot air balloon
Construction of Crossrail station at Abbey Wood underway
Mind Bending Fogs Fill the Wellcome Collection
75th Anniversary of the Balham Tube Disaster
TfL shows off plans for Camden Town tube station upgrade
Unbuilt London: A 500 Foot Tall Monument to the Battle of Britain
London’s weekly railway news #119
The Met Police opens its "Black Museum" to the public
Bus Shelters to display Tube disruption warnings
Churchill's Scientists at the Science Museum
Unbuilt London: Straightening the River Thames
Gin Tastings at the Transport Museum
A look inside the WW2 tunnels under Clapham Common
London's 2015 Bonfire Night Firework Displays
London’s weekly railway news #118
Torchlit tours of the Post Office Railway
September 2015
The Soviet space race arrives in London
Unbuilt London: Britannia Triumphant upon Greenwich Hill
Canary Wharf's 1990s model of the DLR
London’s weekly railway news #117
London is to have a light festival
Super Tides expected on the Thames
The Festival of Britain's clock tower in East London
Abandoned tube station tours announced
Inside Shoreditch's Disused Tube Trains
Inside the restored Middlesex Hospital chapel
Unbuilt London: Replacing buses with a monorail network
Plans to reopen derelict Crystal Palace subway
London’s weekly railway news #116
First ever public tours of Henry V's Chapel
Turning a disused railway into public park
Attend a Science Lecture in a Train Station Tunnel
Did the tube strike improve London's economy?
Sheep to be taken across London Bridge
Unbuilt London: The 1,000 foot tall Golden Tower
Rare ceremony to take place at the Tower of London
The UK's smallest King George Field is in London
London’s weekly railway news #115
A "tube map" for housing developments
TfL's Wooden Underground Station
Unbuilt London: The King's Cross Airport
See the Bloodhound "supersonic car" at Canary Wharf
Lots of searchlights in Central London
London’s weekly railway news #114
Straw bales hanging from London bridges
August 2015
Catch a steam train from London to Paris
Camberwell bus garage open to the public this weekend
Book tickets to visit Crossrail building sites
Unbuilt London: The Iron Bridge
The bit of Crossrail that is 3-times deeper than a tube train
The Shard testing a lighting display this weekend
London’s weekly railway news #113
Photos - rebuilding a Victoria Line crossover junction
Roman Skulls go on display in the Museum of London
The Victorian swimming baths floating in the Thames
Unbuilt London: Stepney's Massive Clock Tower
A couple of ripe, ornamental pineapples
London’s weekly railway news #112
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Dr Who at UCL
Glowing Clouds of Balls to fill Covent Garden
Brian Haw's protest camp inside the Museum of London
Burning Man art comes to the British Library
Unbuilt London: A giant pyramid on Trafalgar Square
Book tours of the Heathrow Express Depot
London’s weekly railway news #111
Crossrail uncovers burial pit of Great Plague victims
See the Baltic Exchange Memorial Glass
London's Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway
Unbuilt London: The Isle of Dogs Airport
Gladiatorial fights return to London
London’s weekly railway news #110
Booking for 2015's Open House Weekend opens shortly
Book tours of the Government's art collection warehouse
New exhibition explore animals in books
Walk over one of London's highest bridges
London Underground's capacity boost on sub-surface lines
Unbuilt London: The Outer Loop Railway
Free Penguins on the London Underground
More vintage videos of London released
New book about Crossrail released
July 2015
London’s weekly railway news #109
Look out for a Blue Moon on Friday
Unbuilt London: Heathrow Airport's High-Speed Monorail
Thousands of buildings to Open to the Public in September
Museums at night makes second pass at 2015
London’s weekly railway news #108
Photos from the Crossrail tunnels under Farringdon
Watch science fiction on a floating cinema
Women Working on the Railways During WW1
Photos from inside the derelict Millennium Mills
The year a quarter of London's population died
London's fire brigade museum to get a new home
Rarely seen roman ruin to open to the public
A music concert underneath Tower Bridge
London’s weekly railway news #107
Crossrail supplied sea-wall breached in Essex
3D maps of every Underground station
3D maps of every Underground station - CDEFG
3D maps of every Underground station - HIJKLM
3D maps of every Underground station - NOPQRS
3D maps of every Underground station - TUVW
London's last surviving Catholic Embassy Chapel of Penal Times
Photographing Soldiers and Suffragettes
Huge geological map of Britain goes on display
London’s weekly railway news #106
The Barbican: Building a Landmark
Timetable for a bus to a deserted village
RAF flypast over central London on Friday
Gods and Monsters at the Getty Gallery
A walk around the London Overground with by Iain Sinclair
The Dr Who branded £10 bank note
Is it ever OK to wear socks with sandals?
Steam trains and afternoon tea on the London Underground
London’s weekly railway news #105
A mono railway proposed back in 1880
Tours of a Royal Navy Frigate Announced
June 2015
Wrong sort of headlines on the railways
A look around Croydon's tram sidings and repair depot
Dennis Severs House - a silent Spitalfields Georgian home
London's civilian VC to be commemorated
London’s weekly railway news #104
Sounds of the sea come to tube stations
Vintage panoramas of modern London
More tours of WW2 deep-level shelters planned
TfL publishes the official Night Tube map
The Museum of London's model tube trains
Unbuilt London: How Charing Cross nearly became a giant helipad
BT Tower restaurant to reopen to the public
London’s weekly railway news #103
London Underground HQ to be turned into flats
At the 100th anniversary of RAF Northolt
See some 3D maps of Central line tube stations
London’s weekly railway news #102
East London office gets its own private tube train
Bus Garage Open Days Announced
TfL accepting a dish of Apples and Oysters
Photos - Walking through a Crossrail tunnel
Flotilla of hot air balloons over London on Sunday
Disused "Mail Rail" edges closer to being opened to the public
The "All-Female Tube Station" is 100 years old
London’s weekly railway news #101
Nuclear Bomber to fly over London
London's 50-meter high Great Pagoda to reopen to the public
More tickets released for RAF Northolt Open Day
May 2015
The year an observatory sat on top of St Paul's Cathedral
100th anniversary of the first air-raid on London
Weekly round-up of London's railway transport news
Tickets to walk through a Crossrail tunnel
Easier access to Baker Street Station proposed
How Victorian London invented the modern domestic pet dog
Unbuilt London: Farringdon's massive railway terminus
Overnight rehearsal of the State Opening of Parliament - photos
London’s weekly railway news #100
Exhibition shows off future Tube Station designs
The new tube map assailed by a sea of orange
Primary school to use tube train as spare classroom
Weekly round-up of London's railway transport news
Old District line train crashed into 3-ton tank of water
Gunfire and explosions near Old Street on Tuesday
Apply for tickets to the 2015 Last Night of the Proms
TfL seeking a fresh redesign for its new DLR trains
London’s weekly railway news #99
Rare opening of a derelict Georgian house
Unbuilt London: The Victorian skyscraper taller than The Shard
A map for London Underground's night tube
Baffling canoe art in the Barbican
Drinks and a talk on the roof of London Underground's HQ
There will be a religious election on Thursday
First Elizabeth line station opens to the public
April 2015
London’s weekly railway news #98
Watch films inside Charing Cross tube station
Photos from inside Down Street disused tube station
Airworthy Spitfire to be put up for sale
Medieval River Wall Uncovered in Parliament Gardens
The Post-War Plans to Rebuild Shoreditch & Bethnal Green
Apsley House puts on the Waterloo Banquet
Easier access to Brunel's Thames Tunnel shaft planned
Post Office Railway orders new trains
Tickets now available for UCL arts festival
London’s weekly railway news #97
Computer generated steam train arrives at the Science Museum
One Step Closer to Steam Trains at Epping Tube Station
Tours of a Royal Navy minesweeper
Annual opening of Frogmore House and Garden
Marxist Library Starts Tours of the Building
Prepare to Shiver with Antici... pation
London’s weekly railway news #96
Tours of disused tube stations and tunnels announced
Book tickets for free tours of a Royal Navy destroyer
Bale of Straw to Hang from the Wobbly Bridge
Rare panel of a Baron turned Saint goes on display
Holborn tube station's unexpected gift to particle physics research
London’s weekly railway news #95
TfL expanding "bums on bus seats" sensor trial
Unbuilt London: The almost story of a loop railway under Southwark
Evening tours of the UK's Supreme Court
Watch films inside a Freemason's hall
London’s weekly railway news #94
The science underneath Joshua Reynolds paintings
Battle of Britain bunker tour dates announced
Tours of a disused tunnel under the Thames announced
March 2015
Stones from the Euston Arch return to Euston Station
Wembley's experimental "never stop" railway line
Find London's smallest public sculpture
London's most significant modernist building
Museum of London seeking a new home
London’s weekly railway news #93
Weekly round-up of London's railway transport news
Abseilers installing art inside Westminster tube station
Crossrail holding talks about Bedlam excavations
New tube station exhibition this week
Remains of a disused station uncovered by Network Rail
London’s weekly railway news #92
The largest exhibition about the Magna Carta ever staged
Military flypast over London on Friday
Rare chance to photograph inside St Paul's Cathedral
Crossrail to move 3,000 plague victims
Unbuilt London: A travolator on top of London Bridge
250 miniature lifeboats to sail down the Thames
Date announced for annual Imber Bus Rally
A look at Bermondsey's railway dive-under construction site
London’s weekly railway news #91
Go forensic at the Wellcome Collection
Range Rover drives a car through a Crossrail tunnel
200 year old satires about Napoleon Bonaparte on display
Queen Boudica's fire found under the Walkie Talkie skyscraper
February 2015
Unbuilt London: The driverless cars experiment -- in the 1970s
Announcing the single blend coffee cafe
London’s weekly railway news #90
Free tours of Crossrail building sites announced
Freemasonry and the First World War
Museum Meals - Imperial War Museum
Unbuilt London: Extending the Northern Line to Peckham and Streatham
Photography exhibition at Waterloo Station
London’s weekly railway news #89
Astonishing exhibition of Persian Maps in London
Novelty Automation comes to London
London’s weekly railway news #88
Book tickets for an open day at the UK's largest science park
Centenary Open Day at RAF Northolt
Unused station platforms could be opened for Heathrow rail link
London’s weekly railway news #87
Gold display opens at the Bank of England's museum
Guildhall Art Gallery focuses on Victorian paintings
January 2015
Orbital Lego exhibition coming to London
Crossrail tunnel boring machine breaks into Liverpool St Station
It's the 100th anniversary of the Bakerloo Line extension
London’s weekly railway news #86
Giant flying whale to dominate the Natural History Museum
Annual Tweed Run tickets released on Friday
Museum Meals - V&A Museum of Childhood
Naked Stig to stand erect in Soho Square
Gun Salutes in London during 2015
Huge model of London to be replaced
London’s weekly railway news #85
Museum Meals - National Maritime Museum
Heavy Metal art in a church crypt
Tours of the Government Art Collection announced
London’s weekly railway news #84
Tired of London? Maybe it's time to change postal districts
Photos from inside the SkyGarden
Museum Meals - Wellcome Collection
The time when London's streets were paved with wood
Last day of the old TCR tube station entrance
London’s weekly railway news #83
The man who designed modern British posters
Visit the Barbican's garden conservatory
As the walkie-talkie prepares to open to the public...
Tube tunnel sized sewer planned for Kensington
London’s weekly railway news #82
Timelapse film of the works at London Bridge station
December 2014
A list of London's brewery and distillery tours
What's on in London in January 2015
Things to do outside London during January
London’s weekly railway news #81
A history of pubs on the London Underground
Photos from Smithfield's annual xmas eve auction
Photos from Crossrail's huge Stockley flyover
London’s weekly railway news #80
Space Station to fly over London over Christmas
Boris Bike charges "simplified"
London Underground news stories by Thames TV
London’s weekly railway news #79
The danger of ladies hatpins on the London Underground
London’s weekly railway news #78
Tangerine dreams with new Dinosaur at the Natural History Museum
Own a macabre relic from Republican England
Model Steam Train at the SouthBank
November 2014
Give the gift of Museum Membership this Xmas
London’s weekly railway news #77
Museum Meals - The Southbank Centre
Regular tours starting of the "Roman baths" at The Strand
Double-deck trains proposed for Waterloo station lines
Satellite Photo Reveals Railway Under Parliament Square
London’s weekly railway news #76
London’s weekly railway news #75
Visit a future Elizabeth line train depot
Museum Meals - Museum of London Docklands
The quiet murmuration of the Tower of London
London’s weekly railway news #74
Pay a visit to the Museum of Teapots
Emperor Maximilian's triumphal arch at the British Museum
At just 26 days, London Underground's shortest lived tube station
October 2014
Victorian London's double-decked cable cars
London’s weekly railway news #73
Gadgets Galore at the BBC TV studio auction
Museum Meals - Westminster Cathedral
Fire damage closes the Prefab Museum
London’s weekly railway news #72
Museum Meals - The British Museum
Passenger services could be restored to Southall railway line
Levitating building in Covent Garden
Steam Railmotors return to West London
Disused tube station tours to resume in January
60 mini Boris Buses to be deployed across London
London’s weekly railway news #71
200 years ago -- the London Beer Flood
The endless fascination with Sherlock Holmes at the Museum of London
Tube trains every 100 seconds with Jubilee line upgrade
Wartime bunker under Eltham Palace to be restored
International Space Station to fly over London this weekend
Museum Meals - The Jewel Tower
A museum of curiosities seeking funding
130th anniversary of the closure of Tower of London tube station
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
London’s weekly railway news #70
New tube train for the London Underground goes on display
Special train service on the Central Line
List of London's 2014 Bonfire Night Fireworks
Timelapse video of London Bridge station demolition works
Guided tours of Two Temple Place
Gothic Horror arrives at the British Library
London’s weekly railway news #69
An ode to the London Underground
Attend the Messiah in St Paul's Cathedral
September 2014
The little noticed frieze on Temple Bar Monument
Bakerloo line extension southwards announced -- again
20 years since Aldwych Station closed
South London's tallest church spire
City of London opens a new Heritage Gallery
More moves towards driverless trains on the Underground
World's oldest clock museum to move home
Passengers evacuated from Heathrow Express train
London’s weekly railway news #68
Did you visit the Temple of Mithras in 1954?
Brixton's Electric Avenue to glow again
Stunning views from the top of the Cally Tower
A glimpse at Baker Street station's sealed off exit
Free tours of a Royal Navy frigate
Brunels's original rail infrastructure excavated near Paddington Station
New tunnel opens at King's Cross station
Museum Meals - The British Library
Photos from the roof of Victoria Station
Inside the RNLI station on the Thames
Modern shabtis in ancient settings - for one day only
London’s weekly railway news #67
A bale of straw for Tower Bridge
£10 charge to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks
Museum Meals - Buckingham Palace
Tube trains return to a disused tube line
Fancy a luxury meal in a London Underground train?
London’s weekly railway news #66
Red Arrows to fly over London on Wed Evening
New London Overground Map includes the Barking Extension
Museum Meals - Wallace Collection
How to request your own Red Arrows flypast over London
Robin Ince performs a Christmas Carol
Inside the derelict Crystal Palace subway
Camden to get a miniature railway
100th anniversary of THAT famous poster
London’s weekly railway news #65
30th anniversary of Thomas the Tank Engine
Life-size mock-up of a Tube station
Museum Meals - Foulness Heritage Centre
August 2014
Chance to visit some Crossrail building sites
London’s weekly railway news #64
New Routemaster gets Guitar Branding
Museum Meals - Museum of London
Crossrail Tunnels uncovered at Paddington
London’s weekly railway news #63
London Bus themed bar to open next month
150th anniversary of the Thames Valley Railway
Museum Meals - London Transport Museum
The Illustrated London News goes online
The missing murmurations of Leicester Square
People abseiling down Big Ben's clock face
London’s weekly railway news #62
The mathematical secrets of The Simpsons and Futurama
London Open House Weekend Bookings
Ballot for Battersea Power Station Fiery Illuminations
Science Museum to Open New Communications Gallery
For 100 years, it's been a Long Way to Tipperary
Crossrail tunnelling machine Jessica completes her journey
Trips in a rare steam train along a rarely used railway line
See Prince Charles's model tube station
Museum Meals - Dulwich Picture Gallery
Henry Moore sculpture appears outside King's Cross station
A birthday and a demographic shift
London’s weekly railway news #61
TV show about London Underground's flood barriers
An unexpected tractor tour around Foulness Island
Visit a museum in the middle of an MoD firing range
A mighty memorial to the dead of WW1 in Canary Wharf
Remembrance Wreaths being lain at London Transport locations today
Food as art on display in photo exhibition
London’s weekly railway news #60
July 2014
This Friday -- visit the Clown's Museum in Dalston
Steam trains return to the London Underground this weekend
How Charing Cross railway station was nearly demolished
50 years of the modern London Borough Council
Final concrete ring cast for Crossrail tunnels
Start preparing for the Heritage Open Days
Open Day Tours of the Eurotunnel terminal
London’s weekly railway news #59
Backwards posters to appear on the Underground
The London 2012 cauldron goes on public display
9 minutes of Canary Wharf in 1996
Euston Station to be Refurbished
Timetable for a bus route to an abandoned village
Most reproduced photo ever goes on display
London’s weekly railway news #58
Enduring War: Grief, Grit and Humour
Rare opening of a Roman Bathhouse in London
Upminster Windmill gets restoration funding
London Underground lays on trains for beer drinkers
See the largest ever collection of Routmaster buses this weekend
London’s weekly railway news #57
Seagulls on the roof of the British Museum
30 years ago today - smoking banned in London's tube trains
A history of the London Mayor -- in cartoons
TV documentary about Crossrail on BBC2
Footbridge for Crossrails' Canary Wharf Station Completed
Matters of life and death in a 17th-century church
The fragment of London's Roman Wall hidden in a car park
Big science opens its doors for tours
London’s weekly railway news #56
June 2014
London's lost bridge across the Thames at Blackwall
Old and modern photos of London Bridges - blended
Flotsam from the EU privacy ruling against Google
London tube train appears at Glastonbury
A temporary museum to the history of Queens Market
South London's Severndroog Castle to reopen to the public
Haynes publishes an Owners Manual for the London Underground
London’s weekly railway news #55
Military flypast over Parliament on Wednesday
TfL testing new display screens in buses
Regent Street filled with vintage buses
Inside the post-war marvel of Stockwell Bus Garage
Just two more dates to visit the Kirkaldy Testing Museum
London’s weekly railway news #54
More Blue Plaques planned for London
Tours inside West Ham Bus Garage
London's nearest steam railway needs a new bridge
TfL's curious travel suggestions
Red Arrows to fly over London today
London’s weekly railway news #53
Using cookies to boost website performance - a thought experiment
Tickets on sale today for steam train trips in the London Underground
Boris Bike revamp to shrink the Barclays Logo
The Museum of London opens a House of Muses
Crossrail gets a baby Tunnel Boring Machine
A Victorian shop and a roof garden at John Lewis
Crossrail 2 could lose both its Chelsea and Hackney Stations
Elizabeth line stations exhibition opens in City Hall
A hidden garden of delights in Peckham
See London's Six Swiss Railway Clocks
London’s weekly railway news #52
At least 112 Vintage Buses headed to Finsbury Park
Tours and Talks around Battersea Power Station
Last chance to visit the De Morgan Centre before it closes
Memorial sound to echo down the Thames
Overnight rehearsal of the State Opening of Parliament
Lego exhibition comes to London
Post Office Railway a step closer to offering public tours
Ride around Colindale in a Tank this weekend
Tickets go on sale for a London Underground Tour
A chance to sit in the cockpit of a nuclear bomber aircraft
A new book about the New Bus for London
May 2014
Bank tube station upgrade -- consultation opens
Astronomical phenomena - there is no night tonight
Vintage buses to run around Wembley
Book free tickets to see around some building sites
London’s weekly railway news #51
New art on display inside old museums
Getting a free haircut in London
A new tunnel to be dug in central London
Expandable dress creates a personal space on trains
We are living in the era of Phantom Time
Walking through a Tunnel under the Thames -- Part 2
Walking through a Tunnel under the Thames -- Part 1
London’s weekly railway news #50
Steam trains to return to the London Underground
Rare photograph of London in 1845 gets first ever public display
Plans to revamp the riverside walkways in the City of London
Film screening - Glimpses of Lost London 1930-1980
TfL removes advert from website homepage
Watch the ancient Ceremony of the Constable's Dues on Friday
Win a trip in the drivers cab of a tube train
Free Tours of the Royal Navy flagship at Greenwich
London's Pocket Parks: Harleyford Road Gardens
30th anniversary of the "monstrous carbuncle" speech
London’s weekly railway news #49
Parliament appoints a Suffragette Artist-in-Residence
This Saturday -- test Heathrow Airport's new Terminal Building
Brixton's Burdensome Barrier Building
Open weekend at the UK's largest Particle Accelerator
London’s weekly railway news #48
Unusual train movement this weekend
You can now hire rooms inside the Houses of Parliament
Chance to see the Government Art Collection
Take a trip in Channel Tunnel trains on the Thameslink Line
BBC archive of old London programmes
See the Chromolocomotion within St Pancras Station
Sex, Magic and Superheroes at the British Library
Dulwich Festival event listings released
London’s weekly railway news #47
TfL's Head Office to be turned into residential flats
Giant Tree procession through Peckham
Attend a music concert in an abandoned tube station
April 2014
Petrie Museum putting 3D-scans of ancient Egyptian objects online
Abseil down a 17-storey building in East London
A new railway station has opened in Stratford
150th anniversary of the Southwark Park Act
Apply now for tickets to the 2014 Last Night of the Proms
Today is the 90th Anniversary of the British Death Ray
Prefab Museum extended until the "end of summer"
London’s weekly railway news #46
The wonderfully restored interior of All Saint's Margaret Street
Do political website designs match their politics?
Photos - Watch a railway bridge being replaced
Ride in the drivers cab along the old Central Line
Shakespeare plays within the remains of an Elizabethan theatre
A few photos from the Canary Wharf's Elizabeth line station
Bethnal Green Disaster Memorial gets £10k donation from TfL
Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight at the British Library
Tickets now available for UCL arts festival next month
This is not Paddington Station
London’s weekly railway news #45
See the other King George's in the Queen's Gallery
Last chance to use Pudding Mill Lane DLR station before it closes
Take a short walk through Dog Kennel Hill Wood
International Space Station to fly over London on Tuesday
Dr Who and Thunderbirds are Go at the RAF Museum!
Remains of an WW2 Prisoner of War camp in Peckham Rye
A chance to walk through the Thames Railway Tunnel
London’s weekly railway news #44
The City of London is seeking a new Recorder
City of London Festival line up announced
Giant white crosses to mark World War 1
150th anniversary party at Charing Cross this Saturday
Crossrail TBM gets police escort through East London
What was the mystery obelisk alongside the Thames?
A look inside the modern St Barnabas church in Dulwich
100th anniversary of the Charing Cross (Embankment) tube station
A relic of penal punishment in Dulwich village
Street art under a railway bridge near Brixton
London’s weekly railway news #43
Photos of the closed part of the Olympic Park
Chance to see inside the Lost Church under Charing Cross Station
March 2014
Another chance to see the Almost Lost exhibition
Another attempt to reform the Sunday trading laws
Crossrail skeletons confirmed to have died of the Black Death
The crazy plan to divert the Bakerloo Line to Bank Station
A new gallery opens at the British Museum
London’s weekly railway news #42
As if a million tube geeks cried out in horror....
Photos from the Railway Tunnel Under London's Docks
40 years ago, Zardoz speaks for the first time
Visit the Prefab Museum -- while you still can
Evacuation training exercise at the Cable Car
London’s weekly railway news #41
Daisy Daisy -- 2001 to return to the big screen
Open Days Announced for the "Middlesex Cathedral"
Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race tickets go on sale
Take a "Farewell Tour" around the Tube Network
The 300 year old Chapel of Ease just off Oxford Street
Sumptuous glass art work on display
London’s weekly railway news #40
Two egregious PR pitches this week
London Tube Station Appears in Steampunk-Style Computer Game
Date announced for this year's "Tweed Run"
Abandoned Mail Rail to Open to the Public for Tours
The secret ticket that only works in one tube station
TfL Tests Intelligent Pedestrian Crossing Technology
London’s weekly railway news #39
See the Astonishing Interior of Two Temple Place
Open days at the Transport Museum's overflow warehouse
Exhibition - The Brits who Built Modern Britain
Paddington Bear movie trailer released
A hidden oasis of calm next to Marble Arch
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story
Praise for the new SouthBank Centre Website
Rant time! Stupid website security questions
Three Art Galleries to Visit. Maybe
February 2014
London’s weekly railway news #38
Dante's Modern Inferno at Leicester Square
Operator - connect me to Whitehall 1212. Urgent!
Where is the first railway bridge out of London?
A chance to visit 10 Downing Street's back garden
Photos from inside a Crossrail tunnel
London’s weekly railway news #37
Napoleon's death and the 200th anniversary of the Great Stock Exchange Fraud
Boring Snoring Conference Returns to London
Eat some brains in an underground WW2 bunker
Photos from the deep excavations under Victoria Street
How the Motor Car Reshaped English Architecture
Your last chance to visit the Trocadero
Early morning photo opportunity at The Shard
Fairly rare open day at Trinity House
Unbuilt London: The Victorian proposal for a railway to Westminster Abbey
See the human skulls dug up by Crossrail
War! What is it Good for? Exhibitions! That's What!
Quirky Posters depicting London's Mysteries
London’s weekly railway news #36
See Dr Who in the London Underground on a cinema screen
Charles Darwin's head to be eaten by a colony of ants
200th anniversary of the destruction of Custom House
James Bond car exhibition coming to London
See a Crossrail tunnel boring machine made from Lego
What are they building at Charing Cross Railway Station?
Hamleys - the new tube station for Regent Street
Art in Peckham's old Holdrons Department Store
London’s weekly railway news #35
Chance to go inside a disused tube station
Send robots to look at British art
It's the 50th anniversary of the Channel Tunnel Agreement
What tube zone is Washington DC in?
Date for this year's Imberbus Event announced
More science places having open days
Dates announced for tours of a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
How the DLR gets its fresh air though an old toilet
Chance to help clean a rusting WW2 German bomber
January 2014
Silvertown's derelict Tate Institute
Sapphire and Steel have been assigned
London’s weekly railway news #34
22 photos of the new Thameslink Train
Tesco and Waitrose to join Asda in tube stations
Fantasy Architecture - Recreating the Frost Fairs
Are rail improvements in London driving regional job creation?
Look out for a silver Boris Bus on the streets
The Queen Issues a New Commission of Lord Lieutenancy for the City of London
A chance to abseil down the Broadgate Tower
London’s weekly railway news #33
Important News About Bus Route 9
Why does Google News want to do the Time Warp?
A chance to visit some Crossrail building sites
The redevelopment of Peckham Rye Railway Station
A look around the Barclays Cycle Hire Repair Depot
A refurbished railway bridge in South London
London’s weekly railway news #32
Crossrail reaches the half-way mark in its construction
Date announced for a rare tour of a WW2 Bunker
Grab some free tickets to the Ig Nobel show
Huge text wrapped around a tube train, etc
Crossrail to demolish North Woolwich Railway Station
150th anniversary of Charing Cross Railway Station
London’s weekly railway news #31
The Fraud that Killed Off London's First Electric Buses
25th anniversary of London's Air Ambulance
The 200th Anniversary of the London Underground
Hyde Park Corner's Massive Hidden Ventilation Shaft
London Underground's transparent escalator
London’s weekly railway news #30
Sherlock and the Curse of the Tube Pedants
Why it will take 80 dead goats to build the HS2 Railway
40th anniversary of New Year's Day as a Bank Holiday
December 2013
Twinings Tiny Treasure House of Tea
Watch the Red Arrows from the top of The Shard
The remains of a strange tunnel near the Embankment
Cheap tickets to see the Cheapside Hoard
The Odorous History of Mount (not so) Pleasant
London’s weekly railway news #29
A bale of straw has been added to a Whitehall Statue
Photos of empty London on Christmas Morning
1000 Years Ago -- A New King for England
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 25th Dec
At Smithfield Meat Market's annual Christmas Eve auction
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 24th Dec
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 23rd Dec
The Twelve Monsters of Christmas
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 22nd Dec
Simon Jenkins on the English Church
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 21st Dec
Why is the Thames Super Sewer subject to a National Security Notice?
London’s weekly railway news #29
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 20th Dec
Watch the Space Station Fly Over London on Xmas Eve
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 19th Dec
Things to do outside London during January
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 18th Dec
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 17th Dec
Cmdr Hadfield visits London's Science Museum
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 16th Dec
The short-lived experiment with rubber tires on railways
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 15th Dec
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 14th Dec
London’s weekly railway news #27
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 13th Dec
Sleep in a Northern Line tube train carved out of ice
How close London came to being covered in concrete
25th anniversary of the Clapham Junction rail crash
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 12th Dec
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 11th Dec
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 10th Dec
Museum visitors have poorer memory if they take photos of exhibits
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 9th Dec
Unbuilt London: A roller-coaster monorail under the streets of London
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 8th Dec
20th Anniversary of the Battle of George Green
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 7th Dec
London’s weekly railway news #26
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 6th Dec
My alternative to the planned Thames Garden Bridge
A look at London's tube and rail upgrade plans
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 5th Dec
There's an upside down building on Blackfriars Road
A marvellous museum of mechanical material manufactory
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 4th Dec
A Festival of Winter Walks over Christmas
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 3rd Dec
A look around the London Overground upgrade project
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 2nd Dec
100th Anniversary of the Bakerloo Line Extension
An Advent Calendar of Vintage Adverts - 1st Dec
November 2013
Blogger blamed after Antony Gormley street art stolen
London’s weekly railway news #25
London auction of a Dalek, a Cyberman and a Tardis
Vote for your favourite DLR train design
Tower Bridge to resume Engineering Tours in the New Year
Photos - inside the Crossrail station at Canary Wharf
Thames Water's Antony Gormley designed manhole cover
A small garden of calm moments from Oxford Street
Dr Who and the Curse of the London Underground
London’s weekly railway news #24
Tube trains to run 24 hours at weekends
Things to do outside London during December
100th anniversary of Merton Bus Garage
Homes to be warmed by heat from tube tunnels
London’s weekly railway news #23
The space station will fly over London tomorrow morning
Mayfair's masterpiece of the Gothic Revival
80th anniversary of Northwood Hills tube station
The Georgians are coming! The Georgians are coming!
Naked Frenchmen at a London art gallery
Past and future geniuses of art at the Queen's Gallery
London’s weekly railway news #22
Steam Trains Return to the London Underground
A short video - Engineering the London Underground
Crossrail breaks into huge cavern under Stepney
Support a London Museum this Christmas
Overnight Rehearsal of the Lord Mayor's Show
Look out for a tube map decorated freight train
The hidden Japanese garden in central London
Rare public exhibition inside a 400-year old monastery
London’s weekly railway news #21
October 2013
700th anniversary of the ban on MPs carrying weapons into Parliament
The first terrorist attack on the London Underground
In which I name and shame a PR agency
A brutal beauty next to Tottenham Court Road
Great Estates: How London's landowners shape the city
See the Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Central London
London’s weekly railway news #20
Post War buildings celebrated inside the Wellington Arch
Suggestions for things to do outside London during November
Wildlife Photography at the Natural History Museum
200th anniversary of London's public gas supply
An 1863 engraving of the London Bridge railway expansion
No Northern or Bakerloo line trains at Embankment next year
London’s weekly railway news #19
Fantasy Architecture -- An Aircraft Carrier for London?
Paintings and drawings of the Thames in the 1860s
The abandoned Post Office Railway to be opened to the public
The mysterious Cheapside Hoard goes on display at last
London’s weekly railway news #18
3D Model of Bank tube station and the 2020 Upgrade plans
List of London's 2013 Bonfire Night Fireworks
First Crossrail Tunnel completed
British Library pays homage to children's books illustrators
A look at Tottenham Court Road tube station upgrade works
A look around the new Library of Birmingham
London’s weekly railway news #17
Another attempt to rebuild the Crystal Palace
Tube Map swaps station names for football players
Exhibition about the Bank tube station upgrade
A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now
September 2013
Things to do outside London during October
Photos of the Crossrail Station at Paddington
Chance to go inside a disused tube station
London’s weekly railway news #16
Photos from the new King's Cross Square
80th anniversary of the closure of the British Museum tube station
30 years of fly fishing with J.R. Hartley
Estuary at the Docklands Museum
London’s weekly railway news #15
Strange Air -- A Railway Ghost Story
20th Anniversary of the BNP victory in Docklands
Photos from the roof above King's Cross Station
London’s weekly railway news #14
Opportunity to Abseil down the side of a Hospital
Photos from inside an abandoned tube tunnel
London’s weekly railway news #13
Donkeys inside St Paul's Cathedral
August 2013
London’s weekly railway news #12
Film Shots of Derelict Docklands in the 1980s
Wrapping paper for science geeks
The day a huge power cut left thousands trapped on tube trains
Free tours of London Building Sites
Things to do outside London during September
The passing of an Internet era
Vintage Tube Train Trip Along the Piccadilly Line
London’s weekly railway news #11
50 years ago - a huge steel umbrella for Oxford Circus tube station
A Tube Station themed pub to open next month
The (Royal) Society for the Protection of Life from Fire
Flying boat to fly over Tower Bridge
London’s weekly railway news #10
Pre-Booking Details Released for London Open House Weekend
The International Space Station will fly over London this week
The gravestone of a much loved dog by The Mall
Six streets in London called The Mall
London’s weekly railway news #9
A look at the improvements to Stonehenge
Decorate your kitchen as if it's a tube station
The tabloidisation of Facebook marches on
Time Bandits returns to the cinema
A Boris Bus visits a Ghostly Village
Some more desperate efforts from the PR industry
Photos of the abandoned Post Office Railway go on display
London’s weekly railway news #8
Dr Who and the Daleks invade the Museum of London
July 2013
Book a tour of the Holden Stations along the Piccadilly Line
New Crossrail photos released -- and a small error?
Photography forbidden in the British Museum's Islamic Gallery
Optical illusion Lets you "wear" the Queen's Coronation Robes
John Betjeman exhibition opens inside Wellington Arch
Unveiling a memorial to the Moorgate tube crash
London’s weekly railway news #7
London Underground Signal Box gets Listed Status
A look around an Elizabethan Monastery Hidden in Smithfield
My Pick of the Best of This Year's Heritage Open Days
Things to do outside London during August
A few photos of the "secret" Whitehall cable tunnel
London’s weekly railway news #6
Take a look around London's newest Postcode - E20
A fake tube train in an art gallery
A look at the secular enclave within Westminster Abbey
How to visit Heathrow Terminal 2 before it opens to the public
London's experimental Naked Routemaster
London’s weekly railway news #5
A second propaganda exhibition in London
Unbuilt London: The railway in the middle of the Thames
King's College Hospital's Centenary Celebrations
The site of an ancient red post in Dulwich
London’s weekly railway news #4
Volunteers wanted for a Crossrail archaeology dig
June 2013
Parish Notice - Events guide improvements
London’s weekly railway news #3
Last few weeks to visit the world's largest surviving Victorian glasshouse
Crossrail already starting to appear on train maps
The grass gets greener at Stonehenge
An art event inside a disused tube station
Harry Potter artwork goes on display for just one week
London’s weekly railway news #2
Things to do outside London during July
Next to the Blackwall Tunnel - the East India Docks Commemoration Plaque
A curiosity about the local area maps at St Pancras Station
London’s weekly railway news #1
A bronze frieze of London's Underground commuters
Tube Maps made from Lego go on display in stations
Rare chance to ride a vintage tube train around the Kennington Loop
Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome Collection
Olympic Park opens in 47, or 49, or 50 days time at midnight
Visit the Salvation Army Museum
Hidden for 100 years - the Cheapside Hoard goes on display again
A look at the Crossrail tunnels under Oxford Street
Fire Brigade Dissect a White Whale in Covent Garden
May 2013
A rare oasis of calm in Camden Town
Canoeing Along the Thames in the Dark
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
Planes, Trains and Drains at the Building Centre
Roman remains found by new entrance to Bank tube station
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
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
Visit the Doctor Who museum and fan shop in London, UK
The General, The Scientist & The Banker
The Tweed Run Returns to London
The Opulent Interior of St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge
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
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
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
The other two London Underground anniversaries this month
Construction of the Metropolitan Railway at King's Cross
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
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 Lych-Gate 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
Unbuilt London: 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 Duke of York column in central London
Tickets for the Underground's 150th anniversary steam trips
Suggestions for things to do outside London during November
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
Unbuilt London: 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
Unbuilt London: 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
Visit the Poppy Factory in South London
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
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
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
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
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
New lifts at Greenwich foot tunnel - impress and depress at once
Two overlooked lumps of old London Bridge
Solved - How to keep pigeons away from bird feeders
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
80th birthday for The Building Centre
Punch on the London Underground
Suggestions for things to do outside London in April
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
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
Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum
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
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
Does a bear shit in the 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 get tickets to the 2012 Ig Nobel Awards tour
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 Victorian Advent Calendar - 23rd Dec
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Boris Bike Blunder Bedevils Baffled Blogger
One of London's airports gains a new railway 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
What's on in August outside London
Visiting the remains of the Rose Theatre hidden under an office block
German Cruise ship tests London 2012 preparations
BBC Documentary about London Transport's HQ Building
Do you drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day?
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
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
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 Elizabeth line 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
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
City Farm Review: Freightliners Farm
Photos of the Church of St. Alban the Martyr in Holborn
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
A Charnel House at Liverpool Street Crossrail Station?
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
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
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
Tickets to the Tower of London are HOW MUCH!?
Fancy a trip to Acton this weekend?
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
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
Plans to resurrect the ZX Spectrum?
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
£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
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
Photos - Reflections in the River Thames
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
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
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
Free entry to St Paul's Cathedral this Saturday
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
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
Sinister black speedboat action
Civil War march through Whitehall to mark the Nine Regicides
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
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
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
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
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
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
That "Other" Open House Weekend
Booking Details for London Open House Weekend 2010
Homeless people offering guided tours of London
Visiting a huge tunnel network under Rochester
July 2010
The Lord Mayor's Annual Lecture at Mansion House
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
Sailing Ship to pass through Tower Bridge today
Free tours of Victoria Tower at the Houses of Parliament
The Victorian Catacombs of South London
West Ashfield - London Underground's "secret" tube station
The History of Beeswax in London
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
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
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
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
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
The Shard Arises – April & May 2010
A Panorama of New York City in 1855
Open Evening at the Honourable Artillery Company
London Overground Service to Shrink on Sunday
River Thames to be Checked for Unexploded Bombs
The Wellington Testimonial Clock-Tower in Southwark
Job vacancy - an Ale Taster for Spitalfields market
Beating the Bounds and Thrashing the Thames
Last Chance to Visit Hampstead Observatory
London Festival of Architecture Debate
The Victorian Panopticon in London's Leicester-Square
Dr Who, Ancient Egyptians and a Glass of Wine
The last RAF "Seaplane Tender" visits London
When there were icebergs in the River Thames
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 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
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
Outdoor music at Somerset House this Summer
Phone numbers and memorable questions
Military Flypasts over London (and surrounds)
A Walk Along Industrial North Greenwich
The Night the IgNobel Awards Came to London
Walking though Brunel's Tunnel under the Thames
The strange appeal of walking through tube tunnels
How similar are Europeans to Americans?
Of a Wood, a Castle and a Common
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
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
David Dimbleby's Seven Ages of Britain
The Ig Nobel Awards come to London
Some Photos of London - Tilt/Shifted
Want to own your very own Dr Who Cyberman?
A Drawing of the Old Houses of Parliament in 1760
It's "Follow a Museum Day" on Twitter
January 2010
Antique Maps at the British Library
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
Port of London Authority "leaks" General Election Date?
EXCLUSIVE: How London's snow really arrives
London Festival of Architecture
If the Burj Dubai was in London...
December 2009
Train fares to rise - Train fares to fall
Bird's Eye View of the London Docks in 1845
Riding the last ever fully circular circle line train
Photo contest with Wikimedia and Museums
DLR Launches Photography Contest
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
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?
Rehearsing the State Opening of Parliament
Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
V for Vendetta - Live in Westminster
London in the 1950s - archive film footage
October 2009
Ghosts on the London Underground
Wellcome Collection Winter Events - Booking Starts Today
The New South Quay DLR Station - Photos
Homocea - The Victorian cure for both ends of your body?
Companies that take a month to update a database
When the Central Line was used as a fighter plane factory
Remember, Remember the 5th (6th and 7th) of November
Windows Error Message at London Bridge
Chord inside the Kingsway Subway Tunnel
Tower Bridge in the Dereliction
September 2009
Chance to visit the Kingsway Subway tunnels
An improvement (maybe?) to the listings guide
London Open House Weekend - The Naval Club
London Open House Weekend - The Thames Tunnel
London Open House - The White Tower
London Open House - Westminster Town Hall
The Fugitive Futurist - or how the Thames was drained of water
A talk by Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum
Afternoon tea with Dr Johnson and friends
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
August 2009
Friday evening trip on the 1938 tube train?
A unique interactive exhibition
Dr. Seuss and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
B&W News Clips about London's Docks
Have I Got News for You - ticket procedure change
Charles Dickens's England - A Documentary
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
Westminster to get missile defense against attacks
An Old Napoleonic Bollard in Wapping?
What did you think of the Story of London events
The Queen to watch Swan Upping - for the first time
Take the 1938 Tube Train to the Disused Charing Cross Platforms
Met Police Issue Advice to Amateur Photographers
The Annual Vintners Procession
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
Vintage Trains at Marylebone Station
Another trip on a 1938 Tube Train
Drive Sheep Over London Bridge
Tours of the Beefeater Gin Distillery
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?
Railways boost reliability - sort of
May 2009
Jubilee Line tunnels under Big Ben
Request tickets for Armed Forces Day
Shop with olde maps in the window
There is a leopard in my living room
The cartoons of Maggie Thatcher
A tour of the London 2012 Olympics Site
Get a tour on the latest Royal Navy warship
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
Helicopter flypast over London
The Rubik's Cube Solving Robot
HMS Illustrious @ Greenwich - May 2009 Events
The Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green
April 2009
Last chance to visit Hampstead Observatory
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
HMS Illustrious to visit London
The Tudors - special preview screening of Series 3
Easter Chair Heaving at Greenwich
Photo Oportunity - Lloyds Building
Filming gets easier on the London Underground
Supper, Restoration Diaries and a Hymn
A Ripping Yarn of Silver and Salt
March 2009
Have I Got News for You - tickets available today
Visit a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Proposals for Post-Crossrail development at TCR
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
Scientific collectables at Christie's
The last Thameslink train from Moorgate
London Murders: Stats Theory Shows Numbers Are Predictable
We're closing your credit card account
The History of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Ig Nobel Tour of Improbable Research
Churchill's other Cabinet War Rooms
Carnal lectures of the sins of the flesh
Scavenger Hunting @ the Acton Depot
London Transport Museum's Open Weekend
How to get tickets to watch Have I Got News for You
February 2009
Stand on the Trafalgar Square Plinth
Frobisher Crescent at The Barbican
Visit London - but only if you are Gay
Visiting the "Battle of Britain" Underground Bunker
Small improvement to the Events Guide
The Bubble with David Mitchell
Science programming on Television
The LAST bag of Woolworths Pic n Mix
Railway sleepers to be made from plastic bottles
The Ig Nobel Awards - Coming to London
No to the Rotherhithe-Canary Wharf Bridge
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"
A walk through the (closed) Monsal Trail tunnels
Get the latest weather, every half hour on BBC News
January 2009
How to win friends and influence people
An iceberg on the River Thames
The Horrid Murder of His Majestie, King Charles I
Drinking Tea: Talking about Tea
Scottish Bank Notes in England
A gallery of Political Cartoons
Steam Trains and Road Crossings
President Elect Obama at Madame Tussauds
Morris Dancing "facing extinction"
December 2008
See the Space Station in the morning
Laptops banned in coffee shops?
You may very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment
Steam trains in London this weekend
Clear sky at night - Observers delight
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
In Conversation with Cherie Blair
Mansion House to start public tours
Why do companies take 5 days to reply to emails?
Visiting a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Changing the sales message for Green Products
Moving the blog to a new web host
Gin Tasting in the Foundling Museum
The US election and Proposition 8
River fortifications in Elizabeathan times
The carrier bags are killing M&S
Warning Messages on London Transport
Launching a London Events Guide
October 2008
The Village inside a Military Firing Range
459 Years since the Norfolk Rebellion
New recycling bins in the City of London
The end of an era on the railways
Free B&W movies on the big screen
Poster exhibition at the Transport Museum
WW2 tunnels under London to be sold off
The Cathedral Express Steam Train
Centre Point Tower (London Open House)
September 2008
Goodwin's Court - London's "real" Diagon Alley
Beefeater Gin Tour (London Open House)
Lunchtime lectures at The Royal Society
A tour of Aldwych Station on the London Underground
August 2008
Shepherd's Bush station moved - a lot
St Michael's Church by Covent Garden
Personal information and high street retailers
Transport developments in London
Battersea Power Station Tours - Extended
Candy floss, candy floss, candy floss
July 2008
Stella Artois airship over London
Of Polonium and the death of Alexander Litvinenko
The City Pride - redevelopment
Tunnel under the Thames at Battersea
The hottest temperature recorded on earth?
June 2008
The original passenger railway
Too many security cameras - or too much hype?
Future Living in East London - an exhibition
Please think of the environment before printing
An outdoor drinking ban in Soho?
May 2008
Treasures of the English Church
Of Starbucks, T-Mobile and former work colleagues
Early Experiments in Computer Animation
The Honourable Artillery Company
The urban nightlife - a lecture
The science of beer - a lecture
Should Madam Tussauds make a waxwork of Gordon Brown?
April 2008
Getting into private homes to see private "bits of heritage"
Want to sponsor a tube station?
A Trip on a 70 Year Old Tube Train
Sub-Brit Lecture at the Building Centre
The Museum of eww, urgh and yeuk!
Domesticating Electricity - a lunchtime lecture
Photos at the Red Arrows flypast
March 2008
Red Arrows flypast over London
Greathead shield at Bank Station
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year?
A tour of Underground Greenwich
London Open City - An Exhibition
Carbon buckyballs - and Superconductivity
Are Escalators Becoming More Dangerous?
New DLR trains at West India Quay
Cooling the London Underground
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
Crossrail lecture at The Building Centre
The British flag flying on the moon
Flood barriers at Waterloo Station
Sheeps Wool from the Falklands Islands
February 2008
One hundred and fourty years of London Underground complaints
750th Anniversary of the Provisions of Oxford
Lectures and exhibition on London's Hidden Infrastructure
More hidden tunnels under London
An old news article about the Central Line Underground Railway
Marylebone Passage - of religion, printers and workhouses
The Church of St Charles Borromeo
Watch a Lunar Eclipse next week
Internet cafes - the once and future king?
David Davis and the Rhodesia Solution
Scotch's Lifetime Guarantee - ReRecord, not fade away!
A380 starts regular flights to Heathrow
January 2008
Trade shows and public relations agencies
A drinking fountain on Holborn Viaduct
British Rail and the Flying Saucer
Why are people panicking about the Oscars?
Of Carrots, World War 2 and School Dinners
An Egyptian God pays a visit to my flat
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
The world's second oldest underground railway?
Of Roman Baths, Body Snatchers and Australian Convicts
December 2007
Humanity and the Geological Record
Happy Birthday to the City & South London Railway
Sleeping with the ghosts under London Bridge
Goodbye Kings Cross Thameslink...
A morning at Heathrow Terminal 5
November 2007
The World's Oldest Clock Museum
100th Anniversary of the Ice Skating Disaster
HMS Westminster & Tower Bridge - A photo opportunity
Hangmans Gallows on the River Thames
Watching Open Heart Surgery - Live
October 2007
All Saint's Church - Margaret Street, London
The tale of London's attempt to build an "Eiffel Tower"
Twists in smoking history on trains
A bar and piazza outside my flat?
The UK's oldest newspaper gets a web relaunch
Get a "free" trip on the Eurostar
How the Bakerloo Line created a Water Jet in the Thames
Having babies and carbon offsetting
September 2007
St Margaret's Church - Lee, London
Heathrow North - a Radical Suggestion
Horse Jousting at the Tower of London
August 2007
Waterloo and Whitehall Pneumatic Railway
July 2007
June 2007
A wander around the London 2012 site
May 2007
Will posterity read your emails?
April 2007
Trapped by the London Marathon
March 2007
Tower Bridge "Salutes" Slavery Ship
Amazon Launches "Contextual" Ad Platform
Waterloo & Whitehall Pneumatic railway
Walk across Ribblehead Viaduct
February 2007
The Waterloo and Whitehall Pneumatic Railway
Don't forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon Day!
It takes a month to remove me from a mailing list?
Going Underneath the Albert Memorial
January 2007
Right click - then right click again
December 2006
Email reputation and SSL Certificates
November 2006
Has the Royal Mail taken over the USA Embassy
Will we face an advertising backlash?
At last - a sensible use for The Bible
It is now officially "Christmas"