Category: London

Portobello Road has to be one of the most recognisable road names in the whole of the city of London.  It is this road that is home to one of the largest street markets in the world, attracting locals and tourists alike to its many colourful stalls, all looking for a bargain to take home.  This road runs right through the heart of Notting Hill, which is in itself a tourist draw, so as you can imagine this is a busy and bustling part of the city.  The market itself…

The Roundhouse is an iconic London building that started life as a shed for repairing stem engines back in 1846 and is now one of the leading cultural venues in the world.  This incredible Grade II listed building offers an incredible range of events throughout the year that will not only delight and entertain, but also educate and inform.  The Roundhouse has a youth initiative programme that gets people in aged from 11-25 where they can work and get a feel for a career in the performing arts or in…

Despite the fact that the man in question never actually existed and the fact that the address itself was a total fabrication, there is still a huge following of the stories relating to London’s first Consulting Detective.  When Conan Doyle put pen to paper and wrote those first incredible detective stories, the numbers of the buildings in Baker Street went no further than 100, yet in 1990 a house was opened to the public which dates from 1815 and is comparable in description to the layout of rooms described by…

If you have an interest in the unusual, odd and downright bizarre, then head to Ripley’s Believe It or Not situated in Piccadilly Circus.  Here you will be amazed and astounded by the sheer number of original and authentic and highly unbelievable exhibits like a crystal encrusted mini cooper and an upside down tea party.  Here seeing is definitely believing and you will be forced to question what your eyes are telling your brain more than once. Just Who Was Ripley? The man who coined the ‘Believe it or not!’…

The ruins of what was once the private chapel, destroyed by bombs were reused to create the Queen’s Gallery.  Constructed only forty years ago the gallery was extensively developed and enlarged to house exhibitions placed on view to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002.  The Queen herself reopened the display in May that year.  The gallery is used to display a range of exhibitions of items held in the Royal Collection. The Royal Collection is a very wide ranging and diverse collection of sculptures, paintings and other beautiful and…

Now this might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for sheer oddity value it’s definitely worth a mention, and who knows it might be something that you find you like and enjoy when you get there!  The Fan Museum at Greenwich is billed as the only such museum in the world entirely devoted to all aspects of fans.  Inside you will discover over 3,500 mostly antique fans from all around the globe, some almost a thousand years old to some very modern and contemporary exhibits. The Exhibitions Exhibitions change…

The Museum of London tells the colourful tale of this incredible city and those who live within it.  There are in excess of 2,000,000 exhibits in the collections and it is what is considered to be Europe’s largest archaeological archive.  A new gallery was opened in 2010 at the cost of £20 million which is focussed on a very modern London and includes some incredible and imaginative activities for everyone to participate in.  Admission to the museum is free for all and it is open every day from 10am –…

The London Ghost Bus is a London tour unlike any other.  The ‘Orrible Omnibus’ will take you on a blood curdling tour around the less savoury parts of the city, where the dark and sinister past still haunts the streets and people are careful who they speak to for fear they disappear before their very eyes.  A team of actors work the tour and it is promised to be the scariest tour of London Town available.  This is a tour that reveals all of the skeletons in the city’s closets…

The Museum of London’s Docklands is the product of an amalgamation of two earlier museums, the London Museum that was founded in 1912 and the Guildhall that dates back to 1826.  The amalgamation provided a mixture of exhibits for the new museum from ancient Roman mosaics to modern costume and art.  Even now the museum is focussed on providing exhibitions that relate to urban and social history. The museum is housed in a Grade 1 listed building on the West India Quay on Canary Wharf, right in the heart of…

If time has a home then this is it.  The Royal Observatory is the keeper of Greenwich Mean Time and the worlds Prime Meridian.  It might not sound much but the Royal Observatory is officially the point from which every new day, week, month and year starts.  Other than being the world’s official time keeper it is also home to Britain’s biggest refracting telescope, the Harrison Timekeepers and London’s own Planetarium, and what is even better is that entry to the Astronomy Centre is free for everyone, though charges do…