London to Brighton car rally aiming for 500 vintage cars this year

The London to Brighton veteran car run is hoping to see 500 participants in this its 125th anniversary year.

A tour around Shoreham Power Station

As part of last weekend’s Open House not in London events, I secured a tour of the Shoreham power station. There are in fact two Shoreham power stations to choose from, one nuclear and one gas powered. Sadly for my…

Watch a Steam Train on Valentines Night

Your perpetually single correspondent doesn’t particularly enjoy Valentines Day, or the way everything vaguely red in colour or heart shaped suddenly doubles in price for a few weeks, and tends to snarl at anything to do with it. He does…

The London to Brighton Car Rally

This weekend, the annual London to Brighton car rally takes place – starting at the obscene hour of 7am on a Sunday morning. Fortunately for sluggards like myself, there is also a chance to see about a hundred of the…