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When you live near something touristy, it's often something we don't visit, because it's always there. Such was the case when I lived in Windsor, which has a bloody massive tourist trap in the centre of town.

The schoolboy pastime of smashing conkers together was, for a short time, set aside as 100 years ago, the government ordered that all conkers be collected for the war effort.

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The Lord Mayor's personal hot air balloon, accompanied by up to 50 others are set to stage an early morning lift-off from London City Airport.

A different London awaits, sights at once familiar, but different, unusual shops, vistas opened in unpredictable ways, and all a few metres from where you are.

Fear stalks the land. Dark venues dripping with evil beguile unwary visitors with their siren songs of excitement and pleasures. Screams fill the skies, but mesmerized visitors don't turn back.

Ever since the travelling funfair has existed, the cheesy ghost train ride has been a staple of offerings, but happens when you make it something a lot scarier?

A length of concrete wall running alongside the future Elizabeth line tracks in East London is to be covered in a mile-long work of art.

At the most northernmost outpost of Greater London, in middle of farmland, can be found a most curious museum.

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There is a part of London that will forever be green and verdant, for it is Garden Centre Land -- an entire village that is made up entirely from garden centres.

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The Museum of London has opened a new display which shows off finds from the lost Walbrook valley and beyond and represents over 170 years of excavation in London.

A public consultation is opening to show off plans for a major upgrade of Camden tube station.

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