Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
A monthly free talks about Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower being held inside Parliament have been extended to run for the rest of this year.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
It’s quite something to put in an exhibition that before it opens garners more articles about the cost of the entry ticket. But that’s the Money in Monet.
Posted 3 years ago by bevans
The new Rail Park in Spring Garden has a new neighbor: Boxcar Beer Garden (1129 Callowhill St.), whose official opening is July 11.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
The City of London has granted planning permission to a tower that will become the third tallest in London, and is already being nicknamed “Cheesegrater 2” thanks to its shape.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Autoracks in the sunsetIn the past few years, I've been paying a lot more attention to the freight cars in trains.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
If you’re the sort of person to drive me around the countryside, you’ll also have to get used to conversations being interrupted by screams of stop the car, what was that back there?
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
This short little alley certainly brings home the bacon, as conceals a vast modern courtyard, which was until recently the old Danish Bacon warehouse.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
This Wednesday, to mark its 50th anniversary, entry to the Southbank’s Hayward Gallery will cost just 50p – instead of the more usual £14.50 they charge to go in.
Head to Hayward Gallery between 11am and 9pm and see their current exhibition, Lee Bul.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
After checking out of my Shanghai hotel, I headed to the east of the city. My destination was the Zhangjiang district, more specifically, the Zhangjiang Tramway.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
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.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
This is rather forlorn pocket park of the sort that only a mother could love, sitting in the corner of a corner of two busy roads. People rush past, no one walks through the garden, and why would they for the garden offers a longer route and no aesthetic improvement.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Not the President of the USA, although he’s on his way here as well, but a 6-metre high inflatable that will float over London during his visit.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
A former mansion house just behind Selfridges has added to its exhibition space with a dark new gallery in its basement. The £1.2million refurbishment of the space is being opened with an exhibition about the man behind the house, and the museum it now contains, Sir Richard Wallace.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Ordinarily, visitors to St Paul’s Cathedral during the day are not supposed to take photos, but for five evenings, the Cathedral is opening its doors to photographers. The relaxation of the photography ban is part of a series of late openings for the summer months.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
A ancient winding path down a slope lined with cobbles in the City with a “famous wren church” in the middle, what’s not to love about Lovat Lane?
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Despite being inside one of London’s favourite buildings, the restaurant at the top of The Gherkin has been largely off-limits, until now.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
A chance to visit the top of the BT Tower is pretty high up most people’s “bucket list” of things to do in London, but how about spending the night sleeping there?
As part of a promotion for a new product, BT are offering an “indoors camping experience”, basically a chance to sleep in the formerly revolving restaurant at the top of the tower.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
In August there will be a chance to go inside Clarence House, the official residence of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Nottingham city centreWe had an invitation to a celebration of an old university friend's 40th anniversary of his licensing as a Reader (a lay preacher and assistant minister) in the Church of England recently. It was in Nottingham where he and my wife were good friends at that time, and neither of us had been back there since her graduation other than to the university itself, but that is not in the city centre.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
On a side street, just about visible from the main road, lies one of London’s greatest so-called hidden delights.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
A giant white disembodied foot can be found in the gardens next to the US Embassy in Nine Elms. It’s art, by Simon Fujiwara, a Berlin based British-Japanese artist who made his mark in 2012 exhibiting at Tate St. Ives.
Posted 3 years ago by bevans
You’ll probably be asked this question hundreds of times this summer by anyone from your most extreme friend to your grandmother’s knitting buddies. That’s because the newest outdoor activity on Earth is beloved by adventure seekers of all ages.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
What happens when an abandoned WW2 under Clapham is used to grow salads, and then gives over some of the space to modern art?
Tours that warn that nuts are not allowed in the tunnels is one thing.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
This, as so many of the City of London gardens is the site of former religious worship, but unlike most other gardens, this isn’t the graveyard, but the remains of the church itself.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Following the recent departure of the US Embassy, plans are afoot to revamp the neighbouring Grosvenor Square now that the security paranoia has moved away.
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