Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Things to see and events to do across London.
Free tours of London Building Sites
The construction industry is rather keen to encourage people to look at them as a potential career choice, and are going to let people get past the protective hoardings and have a look at some building sites next month.
A Tube Station themed pub to open next month
Fancy a pint of London Underground beer in a London Underground pub to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground?
Flying boat to fly over Tower Bridge
An exceptionally rare sight -- as the UK's only air-worthy heritage flying boat will fly along the Thames next week, and over Tower Bridge.
Pre-Booking Details Released for London Open House Weekend
OK, it's that time of year again as a green booklet flops into homes across the Capital informing us which delights will be available during the annual Open House Weekend.
Photos of the abandoned Post Office Railway go on display
One of London's great hidden marvels is the subterranean Post Office Railway running under the centre of the city and now, sadly mothballed.
Optical illusion Lets you “wear” the Queen’s Coronation Robes
On the 20th year of its Summer openings, Buckingham Palace has inadvertently given people the chance to appear as if they are wearing the Queen's coronation robes.
John Betjeman exhibition opens inside Wellington Arch
Almost everyone who has visited St Pancras station has taken time out to look for the statue of John Betjeman in his famous upward staring pose holding onto the trademark hat.
A look around an Elizabethan Monastery Hidden in Smithfield
Just on the edge of the City of London sits a little known collection of Elizabethan era buildings. Largely hidden from view by a high wall, and that there is no main road passing its gate house, Charterhouse Square has sat on this location since the era of the Black Death.
My Pick of the Best of This Year’s Heritage Open Days
The London Open House Weekend that isn't in London, and lasts more than a weekend has published its catalogue of venues that plan to open this year.
How to visit Heathrow Terminal 2 before it opens to the public
Fancy being an airport guinea-pig for a day? Heathrow is nearing the completion of the demolition and rebuilding of its Terminal 2 building, and like any large transport site that will be used by lots and lots of people, it helps to test if the human side of the facility works as planned.
Parish Notice – Events guide improvements
Just a short note about some slight improvements to the events guide.
Last few weeks to visit the world’s largest surviving Victorian glasshouse
A bit of an advisory that there are just a few weeks left to have a look around the world's largest surviving Victorian glasshouse before it closes for a five-year restoration project.
An art event inside a disused tube station
Aldwych tube station -- opened in 1907 and closed down in 1994 -- is to open again for one of its occasional public events.
Harry Potter artwork goes on display for just one week
One of the more delightful aspects of the Harry Potter movies was for me was how otherwise ordinary objects had an extra special bit of magic in their design, and for a week only, some of those designs have gone on display in central London.
Rare chance to ride a vintage tube train around the Kennington Loop
A rare chance for tube-geeks to ride on a bit of the network that is not normally open to the public -- and to do so in a vintage tube train no less.
Visit the Salvation Army Museum
Throughout the land is an organisation that marches along our high streets in a quasi-military fashion, singing hymns and raising money for good causes.
Canoeing Along the Thames in the Dark
Dotted along the Thames are a number of rowing clubs for those of a watery inclination, but while they are perfect for regular rowers and wannabe regular rowers, it seems there is a limited opportunity for people who want a one-off chance to paddle along the river.
How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms
Prom season is starting soon and it’s already time to dust off an envelope and postage stamp in order to apply for tickets to attend the Last Night of the Proms.
Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend
Next week marks a significant military anniversary, and lots of military things will be happening along the Thames as a result. And details have finally been confirmed -- including public tours of HMS Illustrious.
Cyclists wanted to test “Dutch Roundabouts”
Just a quick note for those who like doing different things -- but TfL is conducting trials of new roundabout designs that may, possibly, be safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
Tower Bridge Opens a New Exhibition
Although Tower Bridge is a permanent fixture on the list of things to visit eventually, it does also run a series of rotating displays to try and lure you in this year instead of some unknown date in the future.
New exhibition inside Westminster’s Jewel Tower
The 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.
Photos – An overnight rehearsal of Lady Thatcher’s funeral
If you had been in the City of London early this morning it would have been very quiet - even quieter than normal for a 3am in the City of London - for a large section was sealed off so that the military could take over for a few hours.
Planes, Trains and Drains at the Building Centre
A new exhibition about London's infrastructure opened recently in the Building Centre that shows off the three dominant challenges for the city in the decades ahead.
