| In light of the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, the majority of venues have announced that they closing for the next few weeks, and those that haven't can be expected to close. Events and exhibitions are understandably being cancelled or delayed. For the next few weeks, ianVisits wont carry the usual listings guide, but will keep the blog post updates. I hope you stay safe and well, and I am sure there will be a huge party when this is all over. | | | Latest blog posts by IanVisits | The old lion of Oxford Street
Opposite Bond Street tube station can be found a small brick building, with a lion on top. | | Additional trains for Southeastern
A fleet of trains ordered for South West Trains are to be transferred to Southeastern to increase capacity on the network. | | Take a drivers eye trip along the Mail Rail
While the Postal Museum is closed to the public, they've put a video of a trip down the mail rail tunnels on their website. | | Unbuilt London: Covering Regents Park with housing
Although Regents Park is today a large open space surrounded by grand housing, it very nearly didn't even exist. | | Transport for London to start furloughing staff
Transport for London has confirmed that it will be putting some of its staff on the government's furlough scheme following a substantial decline in passenger numbers, and revenue from ticket sales. | | Transport Museum offer for ianVisits readers
The London Transport Museum has released a new range of kitchenware based on its classic sporting posters, ianVisits is offering a 20% discount. | | London’s Alleys: Sun Alley, TW9
This is a short alley in Richmond town centre with on its corners, two restaurants, a pub and a community hall. | | Honest Burgers delivering limited edition burger kits to the home
The burger joint, Honest Burgers has teamed up with online butchers, Turner & George to deliver burger kits to your home. And it's for charity. | | Book review: The Livery Halls of the City of London
Within the City of London are a number of grand livery halls, and as they are mostly private, a richly illustrated book lets us peek behind locked doors. | | London’s weekly railway news
A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news... | | Dunmow delayed – no flitches of bacon for 2020
They tried pushing it back to later in the year, but the virus has struck at the heart of olde England and the Dunmow Flitch Trials have been delayed by a year. | | Pre-order the London Open House Weekend guidebook
Even though London’s annual architectural feast / chance to peer in people’s private homes (delete as appropriate) is not due until the middle of September, you can already place pre-orders for the printed guide. | | The origins of graves and burials being six feet under
It's the Year of our Lord 1665, plague is rampaging though London, and the Lord Mayor issues an order that all burials are to be six feet deep. | | Garden centre collective delivering plants to the home
With so many garden centres closed at the moment, there's a risk that a lot of plants would have to be thrown on a compost heap - but now they can be delivered to your home instead. | | 300th anniversary of Covent Garden’s notorious brothel coffee house
Around three hundred years ago, give or take, a coffee house was rented in Covent Garden that was to become one of the most famous brothel houses in England. | | HS2’s contracts awarded – includes £3.3 billion London tunnels
Contracts worth nearly £3.3 billion have been awarded to build the tunnels from Euston to Old Oak Common for the HS2 railway. | |
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