When walking London’s streets we are nearly always surrounded by history. It is a part of everyday life and therefore sometimes easy to overlook. When looking for history it is worth looking, not just at the buildings, but also the pavements. A good example are old surviving cattle troughs. Today they are generally used as […]
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You may well know that you can do tours of Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower), climbing up to the top and behind the clock faces. Did you know though that Islington has its very own clock tower, that you can also climb up? When constructed in the mid 19th century, the Caledonian Clock Tower was
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The Imperial War Museum London in Southwark put on incredible, regular and large-scale, free exhibitions. From the 27th September 2024 until the 27th April 2025 you can visit their new exhibition called War and the Mind, all about the psychological aspects of warfare: why we go to war, how leader’s justify it, how those that
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Hop on a Greater Anglia train from Liverpool Street for forty minutes and you will see the density of central London gradually start to dissipate away. The train takes you up the valley of Lea River and eventually over the border into Hertfordshire. You will arrive at a stop called Rye House, on the outskirts
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Tucked down a little side-street called Martlett Court near Covent Garden you will find the entrance to the Bow Street Police Museum. Opened in 2021, it is one of London’s newest and smallest museums and is only open Friday-Sunday 11am-4.30pm, so it is important to get the timing right with this one. Housed in part
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