ianVisits weekly newsletter

This is the final newsletter until Christmas -- I'll be back hopefully with more fun to enjoy in 2021.

There will be a change after Christmas. Due to some email systems limiting the length of emails, and this is a long emails, I will split the newsletter. Wednesdays will get the weekly events guide, and Mondays will now receive the news. You will also be able to personalise which you want if you've always skipped part.

= Event is free of charge

= Pre-Booking required.

Saturday, 19th December

Hackney Flea-mas Market

Rummage through a selection of salvaged treasures from over 30 handpicked vintage traders.

11am to 6pm

Stoke Newington

The London Artisan

The London Artisan lets you meet, and buy from Designer Makers. Support an independent business this Christmas.

11am to 6pm

Whitechapel

Horse and carriage rides around Chelsea

Every Sat & Sun in December, there will be free horse and carriage rides around Chelsea.

12pm to 4pm

Belgravia

12 Graves of Christmas: Cemetery Club Tours

Leave thoughts of the pandemic and misery at the Cemetery Park gates and immerse yourself in gritty, warts-and-all East End history.

Starts at 6:30pm

Online

Drunk History: The Statues & Riots of Trafalgar Square

Join three tour guides after a nightmare year as we take a look at one of London's top tourist destinations, suitably lubricated

8pm to 10pm

Online

Sunday, 20th December

Croydon Vegan Market

The market will feature up to 40 stalls selling a wide variety of vegan food, cosmetics, ethical clothing and locally made arts and crafts.

10:30am to 4pm

Croydon

Hackney Flea-mas Market

Rummage through a selection of salvaged treasures from over 30 handpicked vintage traders.

11am to 6pm

Stoke Newington

The London Artisan

The London Artisan lets you meet, and buy from Designer Makers. Support an independent business this Christmas.

11am to 6pm

Whitechapel

Horse and carriage rides around Chelsea

Every Sat & Sun in December, there will be free horse and carriage rides around Chelsea.

12pm to 4pm

Belgravia

Vintage Christmas Card Letterpress Printing

Join letterpress enthusiast Simon Trewin via zoom in his Brixton studio and explore his collection of historic vintage printing presses, wooden type and metal illustration blocks.

4pm to 5pm

Online

Monday, 21st December

A History of Christmas - An Online Talk by Nick Dobson

A light-hearted look at Christmas from its origins as a pre-Christian festival right up to the modern-day commercialised celebration.

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Online

Tuesday, 22nd December

Winter Fairy Tales

These snowy stories come from Russia, Germany and Scandinavia, and will fill you with the magic of Christmas.

4pm to 5pm

Online

Wednesday, 23rd December

Thursday, 24th December

Friday, 25th December

The 'Peter Pan Cup' Christmas Morning Handicap Swim

To watch only - an annual tradition of a cold morning swim in the Serpentine Lake.

Starts at 9am

Kensington

London Fields Lido and the West Reservoir open on Christmas Day

London Fields Lido and the West Reservoir will open on Christmas morning for those wishing to brave an invigorating morning swim.

10am to 12pm

Hackney

Saturday, 26th December

Horse and carriage rides around Chelsea

Every Sat & Sun in December, there will be free horse and carriage rides around Chelsea.

12pm to 4pm

Belgravia

Sunday, 27th December

Horse and carriage rides around Chelsea

Every Sat & Sun in December, there will be free horse and carriage rides around Chelsea.

12pm to 4pm

Belgravia

Latest blog posts by ianVisits
London museum and galleries Christmas opening dates Lots of museums are open over the Christmas period, but often with opening hours as erratic as Aunt Norra on her 3rd sherry of the day – so here is a list of known opening hours.
David Bowie season coming to the BFI cinema January is David Bowe month at the BFI Southbank, with a large number of the man's movies being shown through the month.
The National Threatre is offering some online Dick Dick Whittington that is! And Dick Whittington is coming to a computer screen near you.
Tickets Alert: Fairground dodgems to fill Somerset House The courtyard of Somerset House, normally an ice-rink at this time of year, is to become a fairground dodgems ride instead.
The tube station that had a movable platform Generally speaking, when standing on a tube station platform, the only thing that should move is the tube train as it arrives, but there was once a tube station with a platform that also moved.
Tickets Alert: See inside the former Welsh Chapel You've probbaly walked past the locked doors of this grand looking building many times, but over the next couple of weeks, it will be opening its doors to let people inside.
A bale of straw is to hang from Wandsworth Bridge Ancient laws about bridges and bales of straw will be enforced for the next few months as repair works are carried out on Wandsworth Bridge.
Heathrow rail extension pushed back by several years Plans to build a western rail link to Heathrow Airport have been delayed by several years due to the current financial situation.
London’s Alleys: Peto Place, NW1 This is a private looking cobbled* passage leading behind the grand frontages of the Regents Park buildings. The passage itself isn't that notable, posh, clean and functional, but the buildings though, they tell a story.
Non-Londoners could pay £3.50 to drive into London After fighting off plans to expand the existing congestion charge out to the North and South circular roads, there is now a suggestion that there could be a London-wide charge to drive a car.
Tickets Alert: Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers -The Virtual Tour There's a chance to virtually visit the excellent electronic music exhibition at the Design Museum this coming Thursday (17th Dec).
Tickets Alert: Walk through the Mail Rail tunnels More dates have been announced for a chance to walk through the tunnels deep under Clerkenwell once used by the Post Office’s private Mail Rail trains.
London’s weekly railway news A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news…
London skyscraper completes primary construction The tallest building in the City of London, 22 Bishopsgate has reached the stage of "practical completion", and is starting to be fitted out for tenants.
Farringdon’s Elizabeth line station construction completed The Crossrail parts of Farringdon Station have completed construction activity, and are now in the process of being handed over to TfL.
A marine exhibition shows the side of the sea rarely seen An exhibition has opened of photography of marine life, but it's not the expected photos of fishes and corals and nature -- but of humanity at work at sea. Raw industry and machines, and the humans who work them.
See “Fantastic Beasts” inside the Natural History Museum The Harry Potter world has come to a building that wouldn't look out of place in one of the books or movies, as an exhibition opens that combines the fantasy land with the real world.
Catch Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol by candle light Over three nights, a performance of A Christmas Carol will take place inside Charles Dickens home, and it will be done live and by candlelight.

IanVisits, London, UK

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