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.

London Ticket Alert - Archive Articles

Your chance to grab tickets early to London events and exhibitions.

Tickets Alert: A chance to climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College Dome
Tickets Alert: A chance to climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College Dome

Tickets Alert: A chance to climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College Dome

Seen by millions from the outside, but hardly ever from the inside, tickets to climb up inside one of the tall domes at the Old Royal Naval College are now on sale.

Nov
02
2023
Tickets Alert: Out of hours Titanosaur tours at the Natural History Museum
Tickets Alert: Out of hours Titanosaur tours at the Natural History Museum

Tickets Alert: Out of hours Titanosaur tours at the Natural History Museum

If you want to get up close and personal with the largest dinosaur on display but prefer to avoid the crowds, then the Natural History Museum offers early morning visits.

Nov
01
2023
Tickets Alert: Visit the Fan Museum when it’s lit by candles
Tickets Alert: Visit the Fan Museum when it’s lit by candles

Tickets Alert: Visit the Fan Museum when it’s lit by candles

A small museum in Greenwich that you've probably never visited will be a bit more interesting to visit in December when candles illuminate it.

Oct
30
2023
London’s outdoor ice skating rinks for winter 2023-2024
London’s outdoor ice skating rinks for winter 2023-2024

London’s outdoor ice skating rinks for winter 2023-2024

Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over and go home with sore bums and dented pride.

Oct
27
2023
London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks tickets go on sale next week
London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks tickets go on sale next week

London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks tickets go on sale next week

The annual New Year's Eve fireworks at the London Eye will take place this year, and tickets will go on sale on Friday 3rd November at noon.

Oct
27
2023
Tours of Feliks Topolski’s railway arch artist studio and archive
Tours of Feliks Topolski’s railway arch artist studio and archive

Tours of Feliks Topolski’s railway arch artist studio and archive

For over 30 years, one of the railway arches in Waterloo was used as a studio by one of the country's leading artists, Feliks Topolski, and now it's opening up for public tours.

Oct
25
2023
Tickets Alert: Handel Hendrix House to open late on Fridays
Tickets Alert: Handel Hendrix House to open late on Fridays

Tickets Alert: Handel Hendrix House to open late on Fridays

Handel Hendrix House, the museum once home to both Handel and Jimi Hendrix, is to start opening late on Fridays for candlelit, music-filled evenings.

Oct
19
2023
Tickets Alert: Underground (1928 film) with live music
Tickets Alert: Underground (1928 film) with live music

Tickets Alert: Underground (1928 film) with live music

Next month, there's a chance to watch a 1928 film set on the London Underground that examines the lives of Londoners and the romance between them.

Oct
17
2023
Tickets Alert: Spend Halloween inside a Mausoleum
Tickets Alert: Spend Halloween inside a Mausoleum

Tickets Alert: Spend Halloween inside a Mausoleum

What could be more appropriate for Halloween than spending time inside a house of the dead -- inside a Mausoleum?

Oct
12
2023
Dennis Severs House offers cheap entry to young people
Dennis Severs House offers cheap entry to young people

Dennis Severs House offers cheap entry to young people

As it puts on a display created by a young man, Spitalfield's atmospheric Dennis Severs House is also offering cheap tickets to young people.

Oct
09
2023
Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon comes to Southwark Cathedral
Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon comes to Southwark Cathedral

Tickets Alert: Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon comes to Southwark Cathedral

Southwark Cathedral will have a huge floating moon filling the nave for a few weeks, as Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon takes up residence.

Oct
03
2023
London’s 2023 bonfire night firework displays
London’s 2023 bonfire night firework displays

London’s 2023 bonfire night firework displays

It’s time to start plotting how we shall remember the downfall of a papist plot, and watch the skies over London explode with fireworks.

Oct
03
2023
Tickets Alert: Late opening at Westminster Abbey
Tickets Alert: Late opening at Westminster Abbey

Tickets Alert: Late opening at Westminster Abbey

Later this month, Westminster Abbey will host one of its occasional late openings, which, apart from seeing the Abbey in a very different light from daytime visits, are also half-price compared to a daytime visit.

Oct
02
2023
The Wimbledon 2024 ticket ballot has opened
The Wimbledon 2024 ticket ballot has opened

The Wimbledon 2024 ticket ballot has opened

The public ballot for tickets to attend Wimbledon 2024 has opened, so you can apply for tickets to attend next year's tennis championships.

Sep
27
2023
Free entry to National Trust properties this autumn
Free entry to National Trust properties this autumn

Free entry to National Trust properties this autumn

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

Sep
26
2023
Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow’s disused gasworks
Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow’s disused gasworks

Free tours of Bromley-by-Bow’s disused gasworks

Next month, there's another chance to go on a tour of the decommissioned gasholders that dominate the view from the trains passing through West Ham station.

Sep
26
2023
More tickets to visit Horizon 22 viewing gallery coming next month
More tickets to visit Horizon 22 viewing gallery coming next month

More tickets to visit Horizon 22 viewing gallery coming next month

Tickets to visit London's highest viewing gallery were released yesterday, and 5,000 of the free tickets were snapped up in just the first few minutes.

Sep
21
2023
Dennis Severs’ House to have its annual Christmas makeover
Dennis Severs’ House to have its annual Christmas makeover

Dennis Severs’ House to have its annual Christmas makeover

Tickets have now gone on sale for Dennis Severs' House's popular Yuletide makeover that will start in November.

Sep
20
2023
Tickets Alert: Visit Cosmic House – a Post-Modern architectural marvel
Tickets Alert: Visit Cosmic House – a Post-Modern architectural marvel

Tickets Alert: Visit Cosmic House – a Post-Modern architectural marvel

A slightly unassuming house in Holland Park conceals a remarkable interior — a house packed full of early Post-Modernist designs — and is now occasionally open to the public.

Sep
19
2023
A glowing steam train returns to the Epping Ongar Railway
A glowing steam train returns to the Epping Ongar Railway

A glowing steam train returns to the Epping Ongar Railway

A steam train covered in lights will return to the Epping Ongar railway creating a magical ride through the countryside.

Sep
19
2023
Free entry to the Chelsea Physic Garden to see the restored Glasshouses
Free entry to the Chelsea Physic Garden to see the restored Glasshouses

Free entry to the Chelsea Physic Garden to see the restored Glasshouses

Three hundred and fifty years ago, a new medicinal garden was created in Chelsea. One hundred years ago, the garden gained a number of glasshouses for their plants. Zero years ago, the glasshouses reopened following a lot of restoration work.

Sep
12
2023
A labyrinth is being installed inside St Paul’s Cathedral
A labyrinth is being installed inside St Paul’s Cathedral

A labyrinth is being installed inside St Paul’s Cathedral

A labyrinth will be installed inside St. Paul's Cathedral right under the dome in October, and you are invited to walk along its path to the heart of the Labyrinth

Sep
05
2023
Annual open day of the Strand Lane “Roman Baths”
Annual open day of the Strand Lane “Roman Baths”

Annual open day of the Strand Lane “Roman Baths”

A date for your diary, as the little-known Roman Baths behind the back of the disused Aldwych tube station will be open to the public later this month for one day only.

Sep
04
2023
Harrow school offering public tours in September
Harrow school offering public tours in September

Harrow school offering public tours in September

A few times a year, there are tours of the famous posh private school in northwest London, and tickets for the next tours are on sale.

Aug
31
2023