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Tickets Alert: Historic tours of Waterloo Station

Later this month, there will be tours of the historic sites in and around Waterloo Station, hosted by Network Rail.

Booking opens for London Craft Week

After a pandemic switch to online and autumnal events, the annual springtime London Craft Week will be back next month, and apart from lots of displays and short exhibitions, there are a range of bookable tours and talks.

Tickets Alert: Tours of St Alfege Greenwich’s church crypt

Sitting in the heart of Greenwich town centre is the imposing St Alfege Church, and they've started offering semi-regular tours of the crypt underneath the church.

Perivale Wood’s bluebells open days announced

A normally closed nature reserve in west London will be open for a few days when the woods are filled with bluebells at their best.

Becket Pageant for London coming to the Guildhall

To mark Thomas Becket's triple anniversary, Guildhall in the City of London is to be filled with a 16th-century style Livery Fair, and a brand new open-air musical production of his life.

Guided tours of Harrow School

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

Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens

Reopened in 2018 following restoration, but closed during the winter months, Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens in April.

Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and gardens

Gifted to the nation for the use by a government minister, just outside London can be found a modest mansion that’s also open to the public, but only for a couple of weeks a year.

Tours of a Roman London bathhouse resume next month

A Roman bathhouse hidden underneath a London office block will reopen for tours next month having been closed to the public for the past couple of years.

Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Fancy an evening in Horseguards Parade watching a military precision drill, with cannons, and finished off with fireworks?

Vintage buses to run in London for Red Nose Day

This coming Friday and Saturday there will be some vintage buses running along TfL routes, fundraising for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day.

National Lottery offering disounts and free entry to museums

For just over a week in March, it's National Lottery Open Week, where venues that have benefitted from Lottery funding offer deals to visitors.

Attend a lecture in the City of London’s Mansion House

Depending on how you look at it, this is either a chance to hear the Lord Mayor of London talking about an important issue or a chance to visit the sumptuous surrounds of Mansion House.

Guided tours of the Aga Khan Centre have resumed

An unassuming white building behind King’s Cross conceals a wonderful interior and rooftop garden.

BBC’s Antiques Roadshow filming at Clissold Park, North London

If you've ever fancied having something valued by the experts at the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, one of the new series is filming in London later this year, and tickets are now available.

Take a tour of the Poppy Factory

For a century, there has been a factory that employs former military personnel making Remembrance Poppies, and they offer tours of the factory.

House and Garden tours of the medieval Charterhouse

Resuming in April, tours of the medieval Charterhouse at Barbican and its private gardens will be resuming.

Discounts on Zippos Circus tickets

The travelling circus is coming to town this summer and is offering 30% off tickets bought in March.

Horse and Carriage rides over Easter weekend

For four days over Easter, there will be regular horse and carriage rides for the public through Bushey Park in southwest London.

Tours of the Kingsway tram tunnel announced

Rarely opened to the public since it closed in 1952, there will be tours of the Kingsway tram subway in Holborn for a couple of months this summer.

A chance to climb the Cutty Sark rigging

For the first time since it arrived in Greenwich back in 1954, visitors to the Cutty Sark are able to climb up the ship’s mask rigging and see the sights from up high.

Tickets Alert: Science Museum Lates goes Greek this month

The Science Museum's adults-only month late-night returns this month, with a focus on Ancient Greece and its free exhibition, Ancient Greeks: Science and Wisdom.

Ticket Alerts: Chelsea Pensioner tours

Tours of the Royal Hospital Chelsea are resuming next month

The Tower of London moat is getting a slide

This summer, a giant metal slide is being installed in the moat of the Tower of London so people can whizz down to the bottom for a walk through the moat.