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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.

Tickets Alert: Night at the Kilmorey Mausoleum

On Halloween night, one of the UK’s finest examples of an Egyptian-style mausoleum will be lit up to glow in the dark.

Routemaster bus tour raising money for Ukraine

In December, a restored Routemaster bus will be offering a guided tour of London's Christmas lights, as a fundraiser for Ukraine aid agencies.

Tickets Alert: Tours of Moor Park Mansion

A grand manor house on the outskirts of London that was built in its current style 300 years ago will have a handful of public open days next year.

London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks to return this year

After a gap of a couple of years due to that damned thing, the New Year's eve fireworks in central London are back again.

London’s 2022 bonfire night firework displays

This year, Bonfire Night takes place on Saturday, which means the vast majority of fireworks will take place on the same night.

Free tours of the disused Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks

Over the next couple of weeks, there is a chance to go on a tour of the decommissioned gasholders that dominate the view from the trains passing through West Ham station.

Free visits to National Trust properties this autumn

This autumn, the National Trust is offering free tickets to visit most of its properties across the UK.

A week of free medical talks

Later this month there will be a free six-day festival of medical and science taking place across the London Bridge area.

Dennis Severs’ House will have its annual Christmas makeover

Spitalfield's wonderfully atmospheric Dennis Severs’ House gets even more atmospheric during Yuletide as it gets a Christmas makeover.