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.
Space Station to fly over London over Christmas
Last year, the International Space Station flew over London on Christmas Eve, offering opportunities for parents to point at the bright fast moving "star" and tell bright eyed children that it was Santa heading out to deliver presents.
Model Steam Train at the SouthBank
Running along the riverside at the moment just outside the SouthBank Centre can be found a model steam railway.
The quiet murmuration of the Tower of London
It can hardly have escaped your notice that something special is happening at the Tower of London at the moment.
Fire damage closes the Prefab Museum
After surviving 60 years of habitation and recent attempts by the council to demolish it, a prefab building in South London has succumbed to fire.
Levitating building in Covent Garden
It's been all over the news, but I finally took a look at Alex Chinneck's levitating building in Covent Garden last week.
Disused tube station tours to resume in January
Twenty-years ago a tube station closed to passenger traffic, and apart from the occasional film crew or tours is largely off-limits to the general public.
The endless fascination with Sherlock Holmes at the Museum of London
Sherrinford Holmes was a great detective whose exploits have thrilled millions of people for nearly 130 years. Or at least, that is what nearly happened, as Serrinford Holmes was the original, if unused name for the more famous Sherlock Holmes.
List of London’s 2014 Bonfire Night Fireworks
Time to start planning the annual celebration of the persecution of a Papist plot to kill our Protestant Monarch.
Gothic Horror arrives at the British Library
Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ! Sergeant Howie's terror stricken voice, interspersed with screams from the Bride of Frankenstein is the soundtrack that greets visitors to the British Library at the moment.
Attend the Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral
An annual tradition is being continued this Christmas, with an uplifting rendition of Handel's Messiah in St Paul's Cathedral.
Free tours of a Royal Navy frigate
HMS Westminster, a Duke-class frigate is in London at the moment, based in Docklands, and this Saturday, the general public will be able to go on board for a look around.
Photos from the roof of Victoria Station
As a couple of thousand people milled around the concourse of Victoria Station, a much smaller number of people were permitted to wander high above their heads, on the Victorian roof structure.
Inside the RNLI station on the Thames
Should you be unfortunate enough to have an accident on the Thames, the modern high speed boats that race to leave you would depart from one of the oldest intact parts of the riverside.
£10 charge to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks
From this year, it will cost £10 to watch the London Eye fireworks. Well, only if you want to be really close to them.
Red Arrows to fly over London on Wed Evening
Just a quick note to look out for the Red Arrows doing their thing over London on Wednesday evening.
How to request your own Red Arrows flypast over London
Organising something interesting and fancy a flypast by the Red Arrows? Or a WW2 era bomber? Amazingly, it's possible.
Camden to get a miniature railway
Later this month, a small miniature railway will be installed running along the top of a shop in Camden.
Life-size mock-up of a Tube station
There's an exhibition next month devoted to making London's transport more accessible to people with disabilites, or of a certain age.
London Bus themed bar to open next month
Next month the Design Junction returns to London, and as in previous years, will include a London Transport themed bar.
Ballot for Battersea Power Station Fiery Illuminations
A large (possibly) art (maybe) event based around fire is taking place next month at Battersea Power Station.
See Prince Charles’s model tube station
Buckingham Palace has opened its doors again for the now-annual summer opening, and as usual has a special this-year-only exhibition inside some of the rooms.
50 years of the modern London Borough Council
Next April marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the London boroughs as we know them today.
Start preparing for the Heritage Open Days
The annual Heritage Open Days returns in September, that version of London Open House that takes place outside London for those of you brave enough to venture outside Greater London.
Most reproduced photo ever goes on display
A short exhibition has opened of photographs by John Hedgecoe, but it is two contrasting photos of The Queen that might be the highlight of the show.
