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• Public access to the Foulness military firing range reopens next month

  06-03-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you fancy visiting a small museum in the middle of a military firing range, then you may want to put some dates into your diary.The Foulness Heritage Centre can be found deep inside a military firing range island on the far edge of Essex, facing out to the North Sea. Being military grounds, the whole island is off-limits, save for a few farmers who still live there, and on just one Sunday per month during the warmer seasons, one road opens to the public.
  After going through security and a 5-m
  
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• Tickets Alert: Easter tours of the House of Commons’ Speaker’s House

  06-03-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The now semi-regular opportunity to see inside the richly decorated Speaker’s House within the Houses of Parliament returns for Easter.
  The State Dining Room in Speaker’s House (c) UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor
  Speaker’s House can almost be described as a Palace within a Palace, as it’s exceptionally richly decorated and is both the private home of the Speaker of the House of Commons and a suite of state rooms used for events away from the main Parliamentary buildings
  
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• Tracey Emin’s Tate Modern blockbuster is packed with people – and discomfort

  06-03-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  One of the UK’s most famous artists has filled several rooms in the Tate Modern with a wide range of really quite uncomfortable art.This is the Tracey Emin blockbuster. An exhibition that will sell out regardless of what anyone says about it, because it’s a celebrity artist doing what she does best – painting and talking about herself. It’s not that she doesn’t have a remarkable and troubling story to tell, but if your entire art is about a genuinely hard life, then
  
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• The church with anti-aircraft guns: Kilburn’s unusual naval relics removed

  06-03-2026 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Not many people knew they were there, but two WWII-era naval training guns have been in Kilburn since the 1960s, but not any more.
  The Tin Tabernacle in 2021 (c) ianVisits
  You probably wouldn’t have seen the WWII guns because they were housed inside an old metal church – The Tin Tabernacle – which had been taken over by the Sea Cadets in the late 1940s and converted into a naval training vessel TS Bicester.
  And in the late 1960s, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) loaned them two la
  
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