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• Unfinished Mozart manuscript going on display in Mayfair museum

  16-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There will be a rare opportunity to stand face to face with music written in Mozart’s own hand as an unfinished manuscript goes on display at the Handel Hendrix House for a few months.
  Handel Hendrix House (c) ianVisits
  The sheet is modest in size but immense in significance. Carefully inked across the page are the opening 20 bars of a fugue – not Mozart’s own invention, but his transcription of a harpsichord work by George Frideric Handel, composed more than sixty years earlie
  
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• Tickets Alert: Chevening House garden’s 2026 open day

  16-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The date for Chevening House’s annual garden open day has been confirmed, and it’s a chance to wander around an impressive garden normally reserved for government ministers and their staff.The building, Chevening House, was built around 400 years ago, and it would probably still be a private house, but the last Earl Stanhope, childless and with his brother killed in WW1, effectively gifted it to the nation.
  A trust was set up in 1959 that allows a government minister nominated by the
  
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• Morph, Wallace and evil penguins: Inside Aardman at Young V&A

  16-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Wallace and Gromit may have travelled to the moon for some cheese, but they did so in a vegan rocket made from lentils. Or at least, the rivets, carefully glued to the rocket by Nick Park, were made from painted lentils, and that’s a small nugget of information you learn at Young V&A’s new exhibition about all things Aardman.As an exhibition, it’s a chance for people (mostly the younger generation) to learn about the art and craft of making animations, as most of the inform
  
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• London’s Alleys: Martin Lane, City of London, EC4

  16-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Martin Lane is a narrow cobblestone passage next to London Bridge that was once longer, used to reach down to the riverside, and is linked to a rhyme about oranges and lemons.For most of its life, the alley’s main feature was the church of St Martin Orgar, possibly named after Ordgarus, a Dane who donated the church to the canons of St Paul’s.
  Sadly, most of the church was destroyed during the Great Fire of London. The badly damaged remains were restored and used by French Protestant
  
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