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Private entrance from Westminster Tube Station for MPs

There is often told tales by the subterranean conspiracy lot of a private entrance inside Westminster tube station that our elected masters can use to get into the Parliamentary Estate – should they deign to travel by London Underground. I…

A second cable car at Greenwich?

A warning message to ships on the Thames, that three cables are be carried across the river to link Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs in a manner very similar to that used for the Dangleway by the Millenium Dome…

A new type of tube train is shown off at the South Bank

If you were heading down into a certain tube station recently via the escalator, you might have been slightly alarmed to see this advancing back up towards you. No, not a new type of tube train designed to deposit passengers…

Pigeons riding Boris Bikes

Just around the corner from the Royal London Hospital in Whitechappel is a Boris Bike stand that would be otherwise unremarkable except that one half of it has been colonised by pigeons, and they have taken to the bikes with…

How Typhoon jets will intercept unexpected planes during the Olympics

As part of the ongoing militarisation of London in preparation for the Olympics, we are probably aware that there will be missiles stationed in various locations around the venues, and that fighter jets will be on standby to intercept unexpected…

Painted BT Phone Boxes in Trafalgar Square

Once a familiar sight on the streets of the UK, the telephone box has faded from important utility to quaint heritage as the mobile phone killed off the need to visit a specific location to make a phone call. The…

Rarely seen plans for a Grand Tunnel instead of Tower Bridge

When the City of London decided it needed a bridge to be built next to the Tower of London, it held an open competition for designs for said bridge. Around 50 designs were submitted for a bridge at the location…

Another Olympics related “exclusive pop-up experience”

Visitors to this summer’s Olympic games who are looking for that exclusive experience to remember the games by might have been tempted by the opportunity to take a canal cruise into the Olympic venue itself. At a mere £95 for…

Birds nesting at Canary Wharf

One of the aspects of London’s Docklands that has often been applauded over the years by suitably concerned organisations is the placement of floating rafts in the docks for birds to nest one. Often nothing more than a wooden raft…

Free hot air balloon rides at Liverpool Street Station

Well, just behind it – in Exchange Square to be specific. Thanks to a tip-off from The Londonist, it seemed that a PR company had decided the best way to publicise their latest offer is to tether a hot air…

London’s Lost Suspension Railway at Kings Cross

A full twenty years before steam trains started arriving at the new station of King’s Cross, a small suspension railway had operated on the opposite side of the road. Not only was it an early form of suspension railway –…

The reopening of the Cutty Sark by the Baron Greenwich (and his wife)

Today, the Baron Greenwich and his wife will visit his namesake town and let her announce the opening of the restored Cutty Sark sailing ship after its lengthy, expensive, and very controversial refurbishment. Yesterday, practically every journalist and blogger in…

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Private entrance from Westminster Tube Station for MPs

A second cable car at Greenwich?

A new type of tube train is shown off at the South Bank

Pigeons riding Boris Bikes

How Typhoon jets will intercept unexpected planes during the Olympics

Painted BT Phone Boxes in Trafalgar Square

Rarely seen plans for a Grand Tunnel instead of Tower Bridge

Another Olympics related “exclusive pop-up experience”

Birds nesting at Canary Wharf

Free hot air balloon rides at Liverpool Street Station

London’s Lost Suspension Railway at Kings Cross

The reopening of the Cutty Sark by the Baron Greenwich (and his wife)

New lifts at Greenwich foot tunnel – impress and depress at once

Solved – How to keep pigeons away from bird feeders

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Panda Crossing

North and South linked as Cable Car cables join two sides of the Thames

Photos from inside Westminster Hall

A look around the outside of Crumbles Castle

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