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If you want to climb up the dizzying heights of St Paul’s Cathedral’s dome, you usually need to buy a ticket to visit the ...
On Monday 8th July, the Great Northern train unit 717020 ran on the Northern City Line using the upgraded ETCS Baseline 3, Release 2 (also referred to as version 3.6.0). The train left Finsbury Park ...
A north London school hall is to be restored to its 1960s appearance and become home to the UK’s first Museum of Brutalist ...
In the 1960s, a private courtyard in central London had a water fountain that could slide sideways to reveal the entrance to a vast complex of secret tunnels.
A Rail200 branded locomotive is currently travelling the UK, bringing a mobile exhibition to the masses to tell a truncated ...
Horizon 22, Europe’s highest free public viewing gallery, has welcomed its one millionth visitor, less than two years after ...
A tall Victorian tower could reopen to the public to ascend 210 feet to the top for views across west London, if they can ...
This is a short, initially rather upmarket-looking passageway in Chalk Farm that caught my attention thanks to the sculpture ...
A series of WWII and Cold War tunnels under central London that were a government secret until declassified in the 1990s are soon to open to the public as a visitor attraction.
Ian Mansfield is a London-based writer and cultural commentator best known as the creator of IanVisits, a widely respected website dedicated to exploring the history, infrastructure, and events of ...
An Art Deco cinema that opened on Chelsea’s King’s Road in 1934 and has recently been redeveloped as a mixed-use building has ...
London’s doors are opening up this September for the London Open House Festival, and a preview of the participating venues has been released.