Top events in London on Sat 2nd Aug 2014
Learn the traditional skill of scything in two-hour workshops.
Learn the fine art of taking a slow photo using a pinhole camera.
Steam trains to run through the central section of the London Underground again.
Over 60 groups and a thousand living history displays, depicting military life from many periods and nationalities.
2014-08-02
10am to 5pm
Upminster
A walk exploring the most recent contemporary art installations to be found within the heart of the City.
2014-08-02
10:45am to 1pm
City of London
Festival in Trafalgar Square to mark the end of Ramadan
2014-08-02
Starts at 12pm
St James
Monthly open day at one of London's more unusual, and delightful museums.
A chance to see inside a 4-acre private garden that surrounds a mansion within Regent's Park
2014-08-02
2:30pm to 5:30pm
Camden
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
Methane bubbles are set alight to make fireballs, liquid nitrogen freezes flowers, hydrogen balloons explode and rockets are fired into the audience.
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Closing soon Sun, 3rd August
2014-07-22
2014-08-03
Display of photographs by legendary John Hedgecoe, and includes the most reproduced photo in history.
12pm to 5pm
Closing soon Tue, 5th August
2014-07-19
2014-08-05
A second exhibition by a Shoreditch street artist (the sort who sits on streets, not the sort that paints walls).
12pm to 8pm
Closing soon Sun, 17th August
2014-07-19
2014-08-17
This exhibition traces the British comics tradition back through classic 1970s titles including 2000AD, Action and Misty to 19th-century illustrations
All Day
Closing soon Tue, 19th August
2014-05-31
2014-08-19
A display of over fifty key objects featuring the quirky, colourful and often charming design style that emerged from the 1950s in the Soviet Union.
11am to 5pm
Closing soon Sun, 24th August
2014-07-04
2014-08-24
An exhibition of photographs looking at interactions between British soldiers and the Italian civilian population.
10am to 5pm
Closing soon Fri, 29th August
2014-07-21
2014-08-29
An exhibition of art works created for hospitals designed to have a therapeutic effect on their residents.
10am to 5pm
Closing soon Sun, 31st August
2014-06-15
2014-08-31
The roof of John Lewis on Oxford Street has been converted into a public garden.
10am to 4pm
Closing soon Sun, 31st August
2014-06-21
2014-08-31
A derelict shop has been filled with over 4,000 handmade felt versions of familiar grocery items
10am to 7pm
Closing soon Sun, 31st August
2014-08-01
2014-08-31
An exhibition about the history of the long-lost Merton Prior, the remains of which now lie under a main road.
2:30pm to 5pm
Closing soon Sun, 31st August
2014-07-19
2014-08-31
Exhibitions opening soon
Regular Events - Saturday 2nd August 2014
Through this walking tour of the external high walks and inside the Barbican Centre itself, we will reveal the history of the site.
3pm to :
2014-08-02
2014-08-02
A World War I commemorative walk around central Westminster with a City of Westminster Guide in conjuntion with the Royal British Legion.
11am to 1pm
Pimlico
2014-08-02
2014-08-02
The guided tour takes about 75 minutes and includes the Commons and Lords Chambers, the Queen's Robing Room, the Royal Gallery and Westminster Hall.
9:15am to 4:30pm
2014-08-02
2014-08-02
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