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Tickets Alert: Early hours tours of the British Museum

18-04-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The British Museum opens to the public at 10am, but they’ve resumed a little known tour that starts at 9am before the public gets inside.
The tours are themed around five core topics, and you can book for any of the five tours.
They all last around an hour and with the limited number of just twelve people in each group and the galleries empty except for the tour, they cost £33 per person (£16.50 for children). After the tour, as you’re already in the museum, you can then

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Platinum Jubilee events in London

18-04-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

It’s the decennial jubilee for the Queen this year, and lots of events are happening in London to mark the 70th anniversary of The Queen to the throne.
Street Parties
A uniquely royal event in the UK seems to involve neighbours who never usually talk to each other suddenly getting together to block off a street and put out tables and chairs to share lunch.
Your own local area groups will have probably already contacted you to let you know that you are invited (or commanded to attend), but

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Crossrail’s predicted Elizabeth line journey times

18-04-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

When it opens, the Elizabeth line will not just substantially increase capacity on the tube network in Central London, for many people, it will make journeys a lot faster. In some cases, considerably faster, especially in southeast London.
We now have the expected times for journeys along the line between Abbey Wood and Paddington, which will be the first part of the core tunnels to open in just a few weeks’ time, and they confirm that for a lot of people, journey times across London is ab

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London’s Alleys: Durweston Mews, W1

18-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a small back of flats courtyard mews that can be found just around the corner from Baker Street.The mews lies within the Portman Estate, a historic area that was once fields acquired by the Portman family in the mid 16th-century, and later developed in the 18th-century as London expanded.
The block that surrounds the mews shows up as a block of houses with back gardens in 1799, with the unnamed mews running behind the gardens. It shows up in the Greenwood map of 1828 with a name, but unf

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