Tickets Alert: Sir Peter Hendy’s City of London Routemaster Bus Tour
An architecture tour with a difference next month, as a Routmaster bus offers a tour around the City of London focusing on preparations for the Elizabeth line.
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Crossrail: The Art of the Build
As Crossrail was being constructed, along with a couple of TV shows, there’s been a number of books published — and the latest is Crossrail: The Art of the Build.
Fatberg Live! Watch the living fatberg!
In a secure container, within a locked vault, the notorious Whitechapel fatberg continues to evolve and change.
A visit to the Florence Nightingale Museum
A museum devoted to the lady of the lamp who did so much to move the public’s opinion of nursing and war — sits under the pedestrian plaza at St Thomas’ Hospital.
London Underground reveals Gareth Southgate tube station renaming cost £10,466
Remember the Gareth Southgate tube station renaming, and how there was a complaint about how much it cost — the details have been released.
Crossrail’s Farringdon site being turned into offices
The building site next to Farringdon Station is to be turned into an office block once Crossrail vacate it later this year.
Inside Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Maiden Lane
Just around the corner from Covent Garden is a Victorian brick building that conceals a wondrous Catholic Church interior.
London’s Alleys: Middleton Place, W1
The oldest surviving purely residential walkway in the West End, Middleton Place is actually a modern name for a much older passageway.
Inside North Korea… inside Foyles
Inside that Mecca to reading can be found a glimpse behind the curtain of one of the world’s most repressive regimes.
Trafalgar Square to get a fifth lion next month
A red lion will be added to Trafalgar Square next month, as part of the London Design Festival.
The steam train – a magical mechanical marvel
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the last mainline passenger steam train on Britain’s railways, yet, 50 years on, it’s really quite easy to find a steam train on Britain’s mainline railways.
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Stepney City Farm secures funding for Crossrail recovery
The city farm at Stepney, which saw a chunk of its site taken over during the Crossrail construction has secured funding to manage its expansion back onto the land that was temporarily occupied for Crossrail works.
Tickets Alert: Open Day at the Transport Museum overflow depot
A huge shed packed full of old tube trains, buses, trams, and floors of railway ephemera, this is the Acton depot used by the London Transport Museum to store everything that wont fit into the museum.
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