You can climb to the top of the Monument tower again
The Monument, a tall stone tower in the City of London you can climb up and commemorates the Great Fire of London is reopening following its pandemic closure.
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You can climb to the top of the Monument tower again
The Monument, a tall stone tower in the City of London you can climb up and commemorates the Great Fire of London is reopening following its pandemic closure.
Tickets Alert – Bird watching and poetry in The Monument
That stone column to the Great Fire of London is holding a series of evening events during the autumn.
At just 26 days, London Underground’s shortest lived tube station
On the 1st November 1884, a tube station changed its name, and in doing so became the shortest-lived tube station to bear the name it once had.
The Museum of London opens a House of Muses
If you pay a visit to the Museum of London over the next few weeks, you will see -- for it is impossible to avoid -- a large white "thing" by the front door.
3D Model of Bank tube station and the 2020 Upgrade plans
If you head into a certain Church in the City, you can see catnip for any tube fan -- a 3D model of the future Bank/Monument tube station as it will be in around 2020.
Closed for 130 years, the Duke of York column in central London
In 1834, a tall observation tower was opened to the public near to Trafalgar Square giving people a chance to look down on Pall Mall and overlook St James Park and Whitehall.
A 3D model of Bank Tube Station – and a look at the upgrade plans
If planning permission is granted, then six years of building and tunnelling works will start at Bank tube station from 2015 to fix the notorious bottleneck at the Northern Line.
Views From Two Towers in Two Cities – Both in London
Before they merged into a Metropolis, the City of London was physically distinct from the City of Westminster with fields separating the two rival powers in the land. More by coincidence than design, the two cities both ended up two…