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.
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Tickets Alert: Visit the Diamond Light Source – the UK’s largest particle accelerator
In the countryside, not far from Didcot, a stunning flying saucer of a building is home to the UK's largest particle accelerator, and occasionally, they let the public inside for a look.
Tickets Alert: Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
A few years ago, I spent a couple of hours bashing an ancient monument with a hammer, and this summer, there’s a chance to do it again.
Free tours of a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Did you know that the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor is not far from London, and it's occasionally open to the public for tours?
Snowdrop days at Thenford Arboretum
If you fancy a day in the countryside surrounded by small white flowers, then Thenford Arboretum, not far from Banbury, is having its annual snowdrop days in February.
Tickets Alert: Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
A few years ago, I spent a couple of hours bashing an ancient monument with a hammer, and there’s a chance to do it again.
Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator
In the countryside not far from Didcot can be a found a stunning flying saucer of a building, which also happens to house the UK’s national synchrotron, and they're resuming public tours of this hive of science.
See over 600 varieties of snowdrops at Thenford Arboretum
Not far from Banbury is a large arboretum which amongst many things, is noted for its collection of snowdrops that fill the grounds in February.
Three churches to visit near Banbury
If you are in Banbury, maybe visiting Thenford Arboretum, then the trip between town and garden can also take in three ancient churches.
A day trip to – Thenford Arboretum
Not too far from Banbury is a grand manor house, which you can't visit, but also a huge and remarkable garden, which you can.
Watch a power station demolition
It's not in London, not at a convenient hour, and the organisers would rather no one turned up - so here are the details.
The ancient tradition of cleaning the Uffington Horse
For thousands of years, people have come to Uffington to clean a prehistoric white horse carved into the landscape. And this weekend, the ancient tradition was performed once again.
How Crossrail’s legacy could end up in rural Oxfordshire
A sleepy railway station in rural Oxfordshire could now be an unlikely beneficiary of the Crossrail project.
A chance to help chalk the Uffington White Horse
Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument -- and doing so with permission?
The last days of Banbury’s railway signal boxes
In a few weeks time, one of the best of its grade of railway signal boxes will be torn down, but before that, there is a chance to go inside and have a look.
Roughly a 2.5 mile walk from Banbury town centre can be found an Elizabethan manor house which has been owned by the same family for around 650 years.
Ticket Alert: Chance to visit a historic railway signal box
On the eve of its demolition, there will be a chance to visit a historic railway signal box to have a look inside.
Big science opens its doors for tours
Over a thousand scientists toil away at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and in August there is a chance to go inside and see what they do.
Open weekend at the UK’s largest Particle Accelerator
A brief note that the UK's largest particle accelerator is having a couple of open days next month.
Tours of the UK’s Synchrotron particle accelerator
Slightly to the south of Didcot sits a huge silver UFO shaped building that happens to house the UK's synchrotron - a special type of particle accelerator that is used to generate a unique form of radiation that can be used to study the internal structure of materials.
