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- Museums at Night takes place this weekend
- The Return of The Cough
- Testing being carried out on the new Cable Car route
- A look around the Leonardo exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
- A bookshop has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
- Birds nesting at Canary Wharf
- Ride in a 1938 era tube train at the Rickmansworth Festival
- Expect gunfire and explosions near Old St tube station this evening
- St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering
- A small museum inside a military firing range
History Archive
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A bookshop has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
Posted on May 10, 2012 | 3 CommentsWellington Arch, the huge triumphal pile of stone at Hyde Park Corner has gained a tiny bookshop inside the arch itself – oh, and a new exhibition area upstairs. I... -
St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering
Posted on May 7, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough I was rudely thwarted in my attempt to visit the Foulness Heritage Centre yesterday (and the church next to it), I was slightly compensated by a look around another... -
A small museum inside a military firing range
Posted on May 6, 2012 | 11 CommentsLurking on the eastern most edge of the River Thames sits Foulness Island, a low lying marshy farmland that is also almost entirely controlled by the Ministry of Defence for... -
Three heritage events along the Central Line
Posted on April 22, 2012 | 2 CommentsA terrestrial alignment of heritage took place on Saturday as I found three heritage related events taking place within a few stops of each other on the Central Line. First... -
100 days until the…
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No CommentsAs the news media will be obsessed today with 100 days, I thought I would join in the joyous celebrations of 100 days to the 27th July 2012. It is... -
Two overlooked lumps of old London Bridge
Posted on April 15, 2012 | 5 CommentsOne of those “I never knew that” moments as I was rushing over London Bridge towards the tube station and going around the spike I dodged two stone plinths that... -
A look around Boston Manor House
Posted on April 8, 2012 | 1 CommentSitting half way between posh Chiswick and ahem, less posh Hounslow lies Boston Manor, named after a Manor House – and one of the ancient manors of Middlesex. A short... -
70th anniversary of an aircraft factory hidden in a tube tunnel
Posted on April 7, 2012 | 6 CommentsAfter 16 months of preparation during the height of the blitz, a secret aircraft components factory was completed deep underground in North London in what were unfinished tunnels for the... -
Punch on the London Underground
Posted on March 28, 2012 | 1 CommentJust a few cartoons that I recently acquired about the London Underground that were published in Punch Magazine at the start of the last century. Apart from the jokes, which... -
The memorial to London’s largest ever explosion
Posted on March 25, 2012 | 2 CommentsAt precisely 6:52 in the evening on the 19th January, 1917, one of the largest explosions in the UK took place – in Silvertown, East London. The explosion killed 73...