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• Tickets Alert: Sandhurst military academy’s tours for 2026

  07-01-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Not far outside London is Sandhurst, the British Army’s military training centre for officers, and it holds occasional tours of the grand buildings hidden behind high walls.
  The tours are a mix of learning about the military heritage, exploring several grand and impressive buildings, and seeing grounds that are usually off-limits to the public.
  I visited in 2023 – review here.Tours take place at on select dates and must be booked in advance. Once a date is agreed upon, you will arran
  
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• South Bermondsey station reopens after its platform was replaced over Christmas

  07-01-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  South Bermondsey station reopened earlier this week following a long closure to replace the ageing platform with something a tad less bouncy.The station, managed by Southern, can be politely described as the sort of station with a face fit for radio, with barely a shed of an entrance and a dank staircase up to the platforms. All this is accentuated by the station being a bit of a walk from the main road, along a long path that just happens to be a disused freight railway line.The original statio
  
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• Jubilee line embankment works to begin near Queensbury, lasting until summer 2027

  07-01-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There’s going to be around 18 months of work on the northern end of the Jubilee line, where it runs high up on raised embankments.
  Raised embankment passing over the road outside Queensbury station
  A letter sent to local residents and shared by the local Councillor, Jayanti Patel, informs them that the works will start in a couple of weeks time, on 16th January 2026 and last for around 18 months, completing in summer 2027.
  The affected area is the raised embankment around Queensbury tube s
  
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• Steel and rhyme, Still on time: 40 years of Poems on the Underground

  07-01-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The first Poems on the Underground appeared in tube trains in February 1986, with poems by Robert Burns and Percy Shelley dwelling on city life, and 40 years later, it’s still running, with a new set of poems about to go on display.
  (c) TfL
  The whole idea of using space on the tube adverts to display poems came from New York born, London resident writer and lecturer, Judith Chernaik, who had a “passion for London and a passion for English poetry”.
  She proposed the Poems on the
  
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• Berkeley Square swaps Nightingales for Dinosaurs as a Triceratops arrives

  07-01-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  In Berkeley Square, where once a nightingale sang, a Triceratops has come to rest.This is Paul Vanstone’s life-size Carrara Triceratops Skull sculpture, now on display in Berkeley Square. Carved from a single 10 tonne block of white Carrara marble sourced from Italy, the work is an artistic interpretation of a 68-million-year-old sub-adult Triceratops Skull exhibited by the nearby art dealer, David Aaron at Frieze Masters 2025.
  The Triceratops roamed the plains of what is now North America
  
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