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Monday only: Free entry to Frameless – an immersive art exhibition

This coming Monday, Frameless, a large basement space at Marble Arch filled with video animated versions of grand master paintings will be free to visit.

Go on tours of buildings sites this March

The semi-annual event that shows off the construction industry by letting people go behind the hoardings onto building sites returns in March, and booking is open now.

Attend the Tower of London’s ancient Ceremony of the Keys

The Ceremony of the Keys is the formal locking up of the tower, and it takes place every single evening at 10pm, and although it's a private event inside the Tower, each evening a small group of people are allowed to watch.

Tickets Alert: London Concours 2023

It might be a bit early to be thinking of summers looking at supercars, but tickets to the London Concours 2023 have gone on sale already.

Christmas trips through the Islington canal tunnel

Although usually only a summer event, for one day over Christmas, there will be trips through the long canal tunnel that runs underneath Islington.

Christmas themed tours of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre

Hear how Christmas was observed in Shakespeare’s time and the folk traditions that people practiced to welcome in winter.

Tickets Alert: London Open Gardens is back

The annual weekend of opening up loads of private gardens and large garden squares will return next year, and discounted tickets are now on sale.

Tours of the 230 year old Trinity House

Next to the Tower of London is 230(ish) year old building that is the headquarters of the people who look after the lighthouses.

Take a winter wander through Highgate Cemetery

Highgate’s West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and winter can be a wonderful time for a wander with the mists and damp leaves creating a very atmospheric visit.

Tickets Alert: The Magic Circle’s Christmas magic shows

It’s not that well known, but the magician's headquarters at the Magic Circle has a small private theatre, and they will put on a series of shows just before Christmas.

The chimney lift has opened at Battersea Power Station

London has gained a new rooftop viewing gallery, in the form of a glass elevator that rides up the inside one of Battersea Power Station's chimneys and pops out of the top for a peek around London.

Take a trip in a magical glowing steam train

If you're on the edges of east London you might spy a steam train chugging along a bit of old tube train track, and it's covered in lights glowing in the dark.

Last few weeks to see Dippy the Dinosaur

Dippy, the first Diplodocus to go on display anywhere in the world, is currently on show in the Natural History Museum, but will be leaving in a few weeks time.

Cheap Charterhouse tours for Islington residents

On the borders of Islington and the City of London is a medieval monastery, and if you live in Islington, they've started offering tours for the princely sum of £1 per person.

Evenings with the Royal Observatory telescopes

During the winter months, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich hosts a number of evenings where you can get up close and look through their telescopes.

The City Christmas Fair – in aid of Wellbeing in Women

The magnificent Drapers' Hall in the City of London will be open to the public next month for an annual charity  Christmas fair.

Tickets Alert: Shire horse carriage rides in Bushy Park

There’s something special about a ride in a carriage pulled by horses, and there are regular winter carriage rides through Bushy or Richmond parks in southwest London.

Tickets for the Battersea Power Station lift are now on sale

Tickets to ride up the inside of a Battersea Power Station chimney, and pop out of the top for a view across London are now on sale.

More tours of disused parts of the London Underground

London Transport Museum’s new season of Hidden London tours is now on sale, offering access to parts of the Underground usually off limits to the public.

A festival of modernism comes to London

Celebrate modernism in all its forms at a new all-day conference that's being hosted at one of London's greatest modernist buildings, the recently refurbished Waltham Forest Town Hall.

Tickets Alert: Free visits to UCL’s telescope observatory

In north London is a fully functioning set of science discovering telescopes, and they offer tours to the public who fancy a chance to peer through them.

London’s ice skating rinks for winter 2022/23

Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over.

Tickets Alert: Tours of a drained canal lock

Later this month, one of the locks on the Hanwell flight of locks on the Grand Union Canal will be drained, and there will be a once in a generation opportunity to view the de-watered lock and see the new lock gates from a specially installed temporary viewing bridge.

Tickets Alert: Son-et-Lumiere to fill St Martin-in-the-Fields

For one week, the interior and outside of St Martin-in-the-Fields will be filled with sound and light as a Son-et-Lumiere covers the walls with colour.