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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
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The Return of The Cough
Posted on May 15, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe Cough is back – a recurring bane of my life that crops up after I am recovering from any mild illness. Viruses and bacteria can send a person to... -
Birds nesting at Canary Wharf
Posted on May 9, 2012 | 3 CommentsOne of the aspects of London’s Docklands that has often been applauded over the years by suitably concerned organisations is the placement of floating rafts in the docks for birds... -
Free hot air balloon rides at Liverpool Street Station
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 1 CommentWell, just behind it – in Exchange Square to be specific. Thanks to a tip-off from The Londonist, it seemed that a PR company had decided the best way to... -
London’s Lost Suspension Railway at Kings Cross
Posted on April 28, 2012 | 5 CommentsA full twenty years before steam trains started arriving at the new station of King’s Cross, a small suspension railway had operated on the opposite side of the road. Not... -
The reopening of the Cutty Sark by the Baron Greenwich (and his wife)
Posted on April 25, 2012 | 4 CommentsToday, the Baron Greenwich and his wife will visit his namesake town and let her announce the opening of the restored Cutty Sark sailing ship after its lengthy, expensive, and... -
New lifts at Greenwich foot tunnel – impress and depress at once
Posted on April 17, 2012 | 3 CommentsFor the past year or so, the foot tunnel that runs under the Thames between the Isle of Dog and Greenwich has had the lifts out of action, and the... -
At last – a pigeon proof bird feeder
Posted on April 12, 2012 | 5 CommentsI live in a fifth floor flat with a balcony and it pleases me to put some bird feeders out for the local avian wildlife. Over the past few years... -
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Panda Crossing
Posted on April 2, 2012 | 4 CommentsToday marks the 50th anniversary of a short lived experiment in road crossings with the very first one opening outside Waterloo Station in 1962, and vanishing just five years later.... -
North and South linked as Cable Car cables join two sides of the Thames
Posted on March 31, 2012 | 14 CommentsAfter a few weeks of delays, last night at around 1am, the preliminary cables were draped between the two pylons for London’s Cable Car, creating the first permanent fixed link... -
Photos from inside Westminster Hall
Posted on March 22, 2012 | 4 CommentsIf you saw any of the Queenly speech at Parliament the other day, you might have noticed that it took place in the awesome venue of Westminster Hall. This grand...