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Recent Blog Posts
- Canoeing Along the Thames in the Dark
- Goodbye Russett
- 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
- Tom Daley’s swimming trunks become a Museum artefact
- Cyclists wanted to test “Dutch Roundabouts”
History Archive
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Tom Daley’s swimming trunks become a Museum artefact
Posted on April 30, 2013 | No CommentsCurators at the Museum of London are used to handling objects that may have been dug up out of damp ground and carefully dried to preserve them for display. -
A look around St Pancras Old Church
Posted on April 21, 2013 | 1 CommentBehind St Pancras station sits an old church. It only became an old church when a new church was built nearby, and while considered to be very old, it is actually fairly new, but on the site that is quite old, but probably not as old as some people claim. -
New exhibition inside Westminster’s Jewel Tower
Posted on April 19, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe Victoria Tower dominates the southern end of the Houses of Parliament and is the repository of laws passed by our elected masters -- but sitting on the other side of the road is the much smaller, and vastly older building that it replaced. -
Roman remains found by new entrance to Bank Tube Station
Posted on April 9, 2013 | 11 CommentsA huge construction site near Bank Tube station is preparing the way for a new tube station entrance to be built -- oh, and a very large office block, oh, and it sits in a major archaeological location. -
Pompeii comes to the British Museum
Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 CommentsA smidgen under 2,000 years ago, a volcano erupted in Italy and within a day had immortalized the local residents in history. Two towns, of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried under the volcanic fury and lay there virtually untouched until the 1750s. -
The hidden garden opposite Cannon Street Station
Posted on March 20, 2013 | 5 CommentsIf you come out of Cannon Street station stop and pause a moment, then look across the road. You might spy an insignificant side road sitting next to the modern steel ribbed building directly opposite. It's worth taking a wander over and having a look - for the short road curves round a corner, and around there you will find one of London's oldest church yards - and now a recently revamped public garden. -
Remember when shops used to have a half-day closing?
Posted on March 18, 2013 | 9 CommentsIn our modern shopping age with stores open ever longer hours each day, I was recently reminded of a slower age, when stores were not just closed on Sundays, but also had a half-day closing each week. -
Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, Guildhall Library!
Posted on March 15, 2013 | 1 CommentIf you head over to the City of London's library next to the Guildhall, there you will find a small display detailing some of the history of one of the City's livery guilds - which sports the motto: Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt. -
A restored WW2 anti-aircraft gun by Canary Wharf
Posted on March 5, 2013 | 4 CommentsAmongst the fluffy bunnies and clucking chickens that can be found at the Mudchute city farm sits a now silent visitor - a World War Two era anti-aircraft gun. -
70th Anniversary of the Bethnal Green Disaster
Posted on March 3, 2013 | 2 CommentsAt around half past eight tonight, it will be 70 years since the single largest loss of British civilian life during World War 2 - the Bethnal Green Disaster.