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Showing posts with label museums. Show all posts
24 April 2026

Feeling gloomy with Stephen Fry but uplifted by Hannah Rose Platt at The Hunterian Museum

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Back in the day (as they say) I used to love popping into The Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields....
29 January 2026

The subterranean passage below Albertopolis

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Heading to The Royal College of Music last week, it was a bit wet and windy* above ground so I made use of the pedestrian tunnel that links ...
21 November 2025

Art Deco: the golden age of poster design at The London Transport Museum

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A colourful new exhibition opens today at The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden displaying over 100 posters from the 1920s and 1930s...
9 March 2023

Unusual and endangered animals at the Natural History Museum

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I was out and about two Sundays ago and it was really biting cold out there so, rather than go home and wait for the house to warm up, I hea...
27 June 2022

The Old Operating Theatre – a delight

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Last month, after years of walking past The Old Operating Theatre and thinking, 'I must go in there some day soon' I walked past an...
23 April 2018

London Transport Museum, Acton Depot

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Yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon wandering around the London Transport Museum's second site at Acton . The first time I went there...
20 February 2018

Clapham Junction Area – Observations in Wandsworth Rd, Northcote Rd, Battersea Rise etc

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One Sunday a few weeks back I met up with a small group of London Historians for a tour of HMP Wandsworth . The pic shows us standing outs...
2 February 2018

Islington on Canvas – Art from the Archives

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There is a wonderful exhibition on at Islington Museum at the moment – a gallery of paintings of locations throughout my borough. Last Sat...
29 August 2017

A Walking Tour around Woolwich Arsenal

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Earlier this summer I went on an excellent tour of Woolwich Arsenal led by my friend Laurence Scales. Laurence is interested in machine...
27 July 2017

Boot Scrapers in Cromwell Road

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Spotted opposite The Natural History Museum, four doorways in a row all with stumps rather than full boot scrapers . Culled for the war eff...
7 February 2017

A narrowboat cruise through Islington Tunnel with Hidden Depths

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There was a two-day event in and around St Pancras Lock this past weekend and it included free access to The Canal Museum and free rides on...
30 June 2016

FOUND at the Foundling Museum – curated by Cornelia Parker

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Here's interesting... in amongst the lovely historical artefacts and artworks at this small but evocative museum there are exhibits by s...
23 June 2016

Markfield Beam Engine – Steaming into action this weekend

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For many years I have been noticing the brown tourist information signs off the Tottenham one way system that point to Markfield Beam Engine...
16 May 2016

Nerd Nite London – it's hip to be square

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Rubbish pics, but you get the drift. Bottom left is the MoC shop Last month I went to my first Nerd Nite evening at The Museum of Child...
10 December 2015

The Old Royal Naval College and Christmas lights at Greenwich

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The Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich is a fascinating place. Lots of interesting artefacts, art and information. Be sure to check out t...
1 December 2015

The Foundling Museum

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The Foundling Museum sits tucked away on the north side of leafy Brunswick Square Gardens in Bloomsbury. Hidden within you will find many ...
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