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• Southbank’s skate undercroft turns 50 with a new exhibition celebrating its concrete legacy

  11-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  People have been skating in the Southbank’s undercroft for the past 50 years, and an exhibition is opening this spring to celebrate 50 years of kickflipping around the space.
  Undercroft Skate Space, 1978 © Tim Leighton Boyce_Jim Slater, Southbank. Images courtesy The Read and Destroy Archive.
  Widely regarded as the birthplace of British skateboarding, the Undercroft Skate Space emerged almost by accident. When the Queen Elizabeth Hall was built in the 1960s, the area beneath was left
  
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• Passenger numbers surge, but the railways still can’t fill the revenue gap

  11-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Rail travel continues to recover from the effects of the pandemic, with an 8% increase in the number of journeys over the past year to reach 467 million journeys in the July to September 2025 quarter, according to figures from the rail regulator, the ORR.
  Liverpool Street station
  However, journeys are also getting shorter, as while the number of trips rose by 8%, the total mileage travelled by all those passengers only rose by 6%. So, while overall revenue also rose by the same 6% in the quarter
  
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• Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour 2026 tickets ballot now open

  11-02-2026 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Trooping the Colour is a big military parade that marks the King’s official birthday in June, and the ballot for tickets to be in the audience is now open.
  Trooping the Colour 2018
  It’s one of those genuine once-in-a-lifetime events to attend, even if the pomp and ceremony isn’t your sort of thing, because it’s a memory you’ll treasure and trigger many envious looks from friends when you tell them you’ve been in the audience for the Trooping the Colour.
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• Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum

  11-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you’re a museum in the centre of London and hoping for lots of passing trade, having a great big statue in front of your entrance must be quite annoying.
  That’s the fate of the Household Cavalry Museum, which sits in the Whitehall building made famous by videos of tourists being shouted at for standing far too close to the horses, but with its entrance around the other side and a statue in front of it.But it’s more than just a museum, because you get to peer into the working
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Pat Hickson Garden, Southwark, SE16

  11-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a corner park that was once houses, then a plain park, but owes its current appearance to a tunnel dug deep under South London.The tunnel carries electricity, and itself is a result of the huge power failure that plunged most of South London into darkness in August 2003. A later review recommended that Network Rail should improve the security of its own supplies in south London, and the result is a tunnel running from the National Grid disconnector at New Cross National Grid Substation t
  
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