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• Obituary: The Hardy Tree, St Pancras Old Church

  28-12-2022 18:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The old ash tree didn’t know how old it was, but it knew it had been here through many winters and seen many changes before old age finally felled it.The Hardy Tree was its name, although the tree knew the story it heard told about it by its many visitors was not entirely correct. Many visitors, and there were many, would stand in groups with someone up front talking loudly about how the Hardy Tree came to be.
  They’d tell of how the tree was older than it seems and had been here when
  
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• The women who taught hieroglyphs

  28-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  To mark the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, there’s an exhibition that celebrates the female UCL teachers and students who pioneered the teaching of the ancient language.Many people have worked to develop the study of hieroglyphs including Egyptian scholars, women, and Coptic priests. Their work has not always been credited.Female teachers and students at UCL were core to these developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The groundbreaking
  
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• Attend the Tower of London’s ancient Ceremony of the Keys

  28-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For around 700 years, a ceremony has taken place inside the Tower of London long after the tourists have left, but a few months ago it changed. The last time this particular change took place was over 120 years ago, and it won’t happen again for over a century.The Ceremony of the Keys is the formal locking up of the tower, and it takes place every single evening at 10pm, and although it’s a private event inside the Tower, each evening a small group of people are allowed to watch. And
  
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• A parkland walk along a disused railway line

  28-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London’s longest linear nature reserve can be found running along a stretch of disused railway line that’s now a long pleasant walk between two stations.A bit of history
  The aptly named Parkland Walk runs along a section of the Great Northern Railway that was authorised for construction in 1862 from Finsbury Park through Stroud Green, Crouch End, Highgate, Finchley and Mill Hill to Edgware.
  It opened in August 1867 as a single track railway, but was under severe pressure from overcro
  
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