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.
Visiting The Conservative Club in St James
The exterior may look suitably anonymous to the average passer-by, but inside number 74 St James lurks not only an impressive interior, but also hosts an important aspect of the history of the modern Tory Party. The building was the…
A tour of London Underground’s Art Deco HQ Building
Sitting on top of St James Park tube station is the headquarters of London Underground in the form of the rather dirty, but still iconic Art Deco building. Once the tallest building in London, it was the tip of the…
The Victorians: Time and Space
On Tuesday, I wandered over to a lecture on how technology changed the Victorian’s perception of time and space. Or at least that is what I thought it was going to be about. As a concept it is a fairly…
Get tickets to watch Have I Got News for You being recorded
My systems tracker has alerted me to a date for your diaries. Tickets to be in the audience to watch Have I Got News for You being recorded live will be made available on Tuesday 21st September at 11:00 am.…
Last Saturday marked the first of a possibly annual event – as the refined airs of Jermyn Street were crowded with visitors sampling free food and drink as the shops sealed off the road for the afternoon. Sounded like fun…
Had an email from Open House London this morning that has frankly, put me in a bit of a bad mood. The Open House 2010 press evening reception to officially launch the 2010 event takes place on the revolving 34th…
Military Aircraft Flying over London on Tuesday
As part of the events to remember the Battle of Britain, a service is being held in St Paul's Cathedral, which will be followed by a march past the Cathedral on the ground and flypast of three military aircraft somewhat higher up.
Highlights from the Story of London
On Friday morning I decided to email the contacts at the Story of London events asking when the rather delayed website would be updated and admirably, got an email back that same afternoon saying it would go live sometime this…
Tours of a Tall Sailing Ship by Tower Bridge
This morning as I worked from home, I saw this from the balcony.
Coming Soon – Guided Tours of Aldwych Tube Station
UPDATED 23rd Sept: All tickets are now SOLD OUT and it is highly unlikely that they will let people go in on the day. I am going tomorrow (Friday) and expect to have a report on this blog in the…
Another way to get a tour of the BT Tower
If you haven’t entered the ballot for tickets to go to the top of the
As mentioned earlier this week, today a collection of buses plied their trade around North London offering free rides to anyone after a dose of nostalgia.
The Museum at the Royal London Hospital
For medical reasons, I am required to visit a hospital for prodding and poking every few months, and the clinic I visit was recently moved from Barts in the City to the Royal London Hospital in the distinctly non-regal Whitechapel.…
Free rides on vintage buses this weekend
Fancy a trip on a vintage red bus? Then you are in luck as this coming Sunday(29th August), a collection of vintage buses, all at least 45 years old will be plying the very same routes that they would have…
Take a trip in a 1938 tube train
Unexpected – as the poor thing has been rather ill recently – but the lovingly restored 1938 era tube train will be taking trips along the tube network in a couple of weeks time, and you can be on it.…
Spitfire flypast over Central London this Friday
This coming Friday (20th August) marks two very special events. There will be a reciting of Winston Churchill’s famous speech, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”, at precisely 3:52pm,…
Going inside the Freemason’s headquarters
Lurking near Covent Garden is the headquarters of the English branch of the mysterious and secretive Freemasons. Sadly for such a secret organisation, their head office is actually very obvious and noticable as it dominates the area with its 1920s…
Booking opens to visit the top of the BT Tower
While tickets to visit most of the favoured venues for Open House London 2010 were snapped up within just a few minutes, tickets for the highly coveted chance to visit the top of the
Photos of London from the top of the Millbank Tower
Just down the road from the Houses of Parliament is the 1960s tower block, the Millbank Tower. Famous for its uncompromising brutal aesthetic in an area dominated by classical stone buildings and for hosting the Labour Party for a few…
A whole week of Subterranean London events
Fancy a week (well, almost) of events about the mysteries that lurk unseen under the streets of London? Sadly, mainly limited to talking about what is down there rather than actually visiting the places, the talks will still be of…
Booking Details for London Open House Weekend 2010
It’s that time of year again as the catalogues are posted out for the London Open House Weekend (18th-19th Sept) and I peer through it for all the juicy properties that need pre-booking when the website goes live on Monday…
Homeless people offering guided tours of London
I saw this on another website and thought it looked interesting. As part of a Festival Fringe event, there will be a series of guided tours around London Bridge and Shoreditch, looking at the city from a rather unusual perspective…
The Lord Mayor’s Annual Lecture at Mansion House
Have you been here before, a chap asked as I waited in a queue last night to go inside the Mansion House in the City of London.
Hampstead Tube Station: Past & Posters
I know almost nothing about this – thanks the paucity of information offered in the email that arrived this morning – but it is probably worth highlighting anyway. Between 19th August and 19th November, Burgh House in Hampstead is hosting…
