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 entry to St Paul’s Cathedral this Saturday
Although free to go in for worshippers, those who are more interested in the architecture than the function of St Paul’s Cathedral have to pay to get inside its stony walls. A full £12.50 per adult no less. This Saturday…
Going on board the Royal Navy Frigate, HMS St Albans
As I got slightly excited about earlier this week, the public are being allowed to go on board HMS St Albans for a look around the ship today. Guided tours for residents of its namesake, St Albans are taking place…
Public tours of a Royal Navy frigate this Saturday
For some reason, this didn’t appear on my normal tracking systems, so sorry for the short notice, but this Saturday there will be public tours of the Royal Navy frigate, HMS St Albans (F83), which is in London for a…
Quatermass and the Central Line tube extension at Hobbs End
Friday evening was an opportunity for me to watch one of my favourite cult films, Quatermass and the Pit in the fantastic setting of a Victorian Gothic revival church in Islington.
A flaccid grey blancmange arrives on London’s Cheapside
The upper end of London’s Cheapside used to contain a rather generic looking 1960s office block of no outstanding architectural detail, but equally not excessively offensive to the eye. This was slowly demolished a few years ago, leaving open a…
A fire at last nights recording of HIGNFY
Yes, a real actual fire – but sadly outside the studio and so wont be on the tonight’s broadcast of Have I Got News for You. Arriving at around 5pm to get as close to the front of the queue…
At the Launch of the Geek Calendar
A group of people sitting in a pub one night got a bit tipsy and debated the various aesthetic merits of selected sciency people, and plotted how to meet them.
Photos from the roof of Senate House
This is Senate House – the administrative block of the University of London – famous in part for its modernist style and the sheer bulk of the main tower. And this is the view from the top of that 19…
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…
Does Stephen Hawking Dream of Electric Trains?
As part of the media frenzy to launch his new book - which has previously included headline friendly comments about the existence of God - a cosmologist managed to fill the cavernous Royal Albert Hall to give a talk on science, and his life in general.
List of London’s Bonfire Night Fireworks for 2010
Update 5th Nov: The fire strike has been cancelled, so the fireworks are scheduled to go ahead as planned – but the weather is looking unreliable, with a good chance of rain from about 7pm onwards, which may affect some…
Photos – Commemorating the Nine Regicides
If you read the blog regularly, then you may recall that this morning, a march down The Mall took place to commemorate the Nine Regicides.
Dante’s Inferno in the tunnels under Waterloo Station
If you are going to set up an art event themed around a fourteenth-century poem, then the abandoned arches underneath a mainline train station probably sounds like it will deliver the suitable atmosphere to evoke the subterranean hell. Fortunately, this…
Civil War march through Whitehall to mark the Nine Regicides
This Sunday marks the 350th anniversary of the Nine Regicides. The what? The Nine Regicides, or to put it another way, the week that nine men were executed by the gruesome method of being hanged, drawn and quartered. Their crime?…
Free tours of the UK’s Synchrotron particle accelerator
Update: 13th October. Seems that all the available tickets went to the mailing list subscribers before any could be offered to the public. There will be another open day in March 2011, and the best (only?) way to get a…
Previewing this year’s Whisky Show
London is replete with festivals of one sort of the other. For foodies and drinkies, we have the currently ongoing restaurant festival, there are more beer festivals than you can shake a stick at, and the occasional fine wine festival…
Big bangs, Smelly explosions & Blowing bubbles
How can you get young people interested in science? Show them a board full of formula, or display things going BANG and SMELLING a lot? Actually, I think the question applies to adults as well, and last night UCL’s Chemistry…
Quatermass and the Pit and a Church
Despite saying the other day that I am clearing out my film collection as I just don’t watch them any more, I am still a bit of a fan of cult movies. Last year, I attended a fun film screening…
Climbing up the Limehouse Accumulator Tower
If you use the Docklands Light Railway, you might have noticed a rather strange octagonal tower near Limehouse that seems to be sitting in an abandoned patch of waste-land. This tower, built in 1869 conceals a hydraulic accumulator that was…
My Top Picks from the Bloomsbury Festival 2010
Later next month is the annual Bloomsbury Festival, where they lay on a really quite considerable number of events packed into a single weekend, many of which look very appealing. Sadly, the website that accompanies the event, while looking as…
The Aldwych Tube Station Blitz Experience
First things first, as they say. Tickets to this event sold out yonks ago. However, if you don’t mind the risk of getting nothing after a day of hanging around, and consuming vast quantities of coffee while you wait, then…
A tour of Grosvenor House Hotel
Another of the Open House London events - a guided tour of one of London's more luxurious hotels, which is probably more famous for its basement, than for its rooms.
Natural History Museum jumps onto the “late night” bandwagon
The notification arrived FAR too late to have been included in my events newsletter, but the Natural History Museum is having an adults-only late night opening this coming Friday, where children will be banished to wherever it is that children…
Visiting the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
As part of the Open House London weekend, one of my pre-booked tours included a visit to the newish Supreme Court building in Westminster. Not the first time I have been in the building, as I have been in once…
