| Saturday 30th July |
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| Annual open day at the local model railway club showing off their trains. |
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| This popular community harvest, and London’s only Pick Your Own Lavender event, will be eld at the three acre Carshalton Lavender field at Stanley Road Allotments. |
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| A fleet of yachts mark the end of their round the world voyage with an afternoon of events in the Royal Docks. |
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| See a giant floating glowing planet earth hovering in the middle of a church. |
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| Sunday 31st July |
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| This popular community harvest, and London’s only Pick Your Own Lavender event, will be eld at the three acre Carshalton Lavender field at Stanley Road Allotments. |
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| Occasional open day at a railway cutting nature reserve in Forest Hill. |
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| Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top. |
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| See a giant floating glowing planet earth hovering in the middle of a church. |
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| Monday 1st August |
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| Tuesday 2nd August |
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| A tour of the world’s largest costume house will showcase some of Angels Costumes’ extensive collection, which spans 8 miles worth of rails and includes over 1 million items. |
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| Wednesday 3rd August |
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| The talk will explain how this serious artist and illustrator turned to humour to fill a gap in his income and how it came to be his primary source of income. |
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| Join cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton as she discusses her ground-breaking theory, and how her path from communist Albania helped her become one of the most courageous thinkers on the world stage of theoretical physics. |
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| Thursday 4th August |
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| A monthly late opening of the restored Roman temple found near Bank in the City of London in the 1950s, and recently restored to its original subterranean location. |
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| On the first Thursday of the month, Holborn's Novelty Automation has a bar in the store for their late-night opening. |
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| Join Sonia Livingstone as she reveals how parents are forging new terrority, with little precedent or support. |
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| Friday 5th August |
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| 12 life-size ensembles – standing at 6’4” – will be showcased, examining social, historical and cultural themes central to Lismore’s work and life as a ‘living sculpture’. |
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| Discover the extraordinary stories of those who survived and witnessed the largest mass migration in the world. |
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| Saturday 6th August |
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| Monthly behind the scenes tours of the local theatre. |
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| Purr-fect for all cat lovers this day will include contributions from a number of cat lovers from historians to behaviorist's and poets. |
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| An eclectic display of domestic items from the last century as well as agricultural machinery inside an old barn. |
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| Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine. |
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| See a giant floating glowing planet earth hovering in the middle of a church. |
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