The Architecture the Railways Built returns for a third TV series
This coming Monday, the third series of tours around the railway world looking at the buildings and structures that allow trains to carry people will start.

Red Arrows to fly over London on Thursday lunchtime
A note to look to the skies, for the Red Arrows will be flying over East London on Thursday (16th Sept) lunchtime.

Mid-week theatre tickets offer for The Windsors: Endgame
Staring Harry Enfield as Charles, and adapted from Channel 4’s comedy spoof about the royals, The Windsors: Endgame currently has a deal on mid-week tickets.

Treasures of Peru are coming to the British Museum
A new exhibition opening later this year at the British Museum will see a host of objects loaned by Peruvian museums coming to the UK, many of which have never been seen in this country before.

London’s weekly railway news
A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news…

Construction work starts on riverside path under Barnes Bridge
A section of the Thames that is currently blocked for pedestrians by a railway bridge is finally getting a dedicated footbridge to avoid a nasty detour.

Call for improved design for railway station cycle racks
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Network Rail have launched a competition to design a range of flexible bike parking facilities that can be rolled out at different times and locations to support cyclists using railway stations.

Inside Peckham’s decaying Caroline Gardens Chapel
Just off the Old Kent Road is a large set of almshouses built just under 200 years ago and in the middle is a large and atmospherically decaying chapel building.

Prince Charles Cinema is showing The Keep on the big screen
What happens when you bring together Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson and Ian McKellen, wrap them up in music by Tangerine Dream, and spend months in a Welsh quarry -- The Keep is what happens.

Barbican arts center set for £50-£150 million revamp
As the Barbican arts centre approaches its 40th birthday, the site is looking at a £50-£150 million revamp to catch up with how society and arts have changed over the decades.

The King’s Observatory opens for rare tours
A building in the middle of a Richmond golf club that was built for King George III to observe an astronomical event will be open later this month for tours.

See the 700-years old murals of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood
A church near Gatwick Airport contains a remarkable survivor inside -- a set of historically significant series of murals that date to around 1300-1350.

HS2 shows off revised plans for Camden ventilation shaft
Revised plans for HS2's headhouse building in Camden have been published ahead of a series of public consultations on the design.

Bodleian Libraries reach the milestone of 1 millionth image online for public access
Oxford's Bodleian Libraries says that its project to digitise images and make them available for free has now passed its 1 millionth image.

Low-cost London to Edinburgh rail service launches as Lumo
Details of a new low-cost train service linking London to Edinburgh have been announced, with over half of tickets costing less than £30 each way.

Photos from Whitechapel station’s Elizabeth line platforms
A couple of weeks ago there was an opportunity to see the now completed Elizabeth line platforms on the day that the refurbished entrance to Whitechapel station opened.

A blue plaque for Muppets creator, Jim Henson
Hampstead has gained another Blue Plaque, this time for the Muppets creator, Jim Henson, who lived in the area from 1979 while working on The Muppet Show.

Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park
The annual outdoor sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park is returning this year, and this year’s selection of works addresses themes including architecture, geopolitical power structures and environmental concern.

Boat tours of the Illuminated River bridges
As the nights get darker, the project to light up the bridges across the Thames becomes easier to see, and there's also a boat tour service to try out.

Mail on Sunday censured over London Underground anthrax story
Earlier this year, the Mail on Sunday claimed that the deadly bacteria, anthrax was released on the Northern line as a biological weapons test back in the 1960s. The newspaper was wrong.

London’s Alleys: Heathcock Court, WC2
This is a short narrow passage on Strand that used to be somewhere else.