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Friday lunchtime performances at the Royal Opera House

23-09-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

It’s not that well known outside the usual circles, but the Royal Opera House puts on occasional lunchtime performances.
Paul Hamlyn Hall (c) ianVisits
Artists from The Royal Opera, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet, and a range of guest artists perform at the Royal Opera House roughly twice a month on Friday lunchtimes – and tickets cost just £5 per person.
They used to be free, but you had to risk a long queue and not getting in. Now they charge a fiver

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Tickets Alert: Nightime drone show coming to Lord’s Cricket Ground

23-09-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Lord’s Cricket Ground will open to the public one evening in November as it hosts a new night-time drone show.
(c) Wild
The event, WILD: The Drone Light Show, will mark London’s first feature-length drone light show and the first event of its kind to be staged at the Home of Cricket. Launched in 2015, WILD follows a series of successful touring drone shows from Yuup and Celestial, including A Christmas Carol and Evolution. Since launching the UK’s first ticketed touring drone l

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Plans move forward for new London Overground route across west London

23-09-2026 13:34 via ianvisits.co.uk

Plans for a new London Overground railway in west London have moved forward, with the first public consultation now open.
(c) TfL
Transport for London (TfL) is running an eight-week consultation inviting feedback for the first time on proposals to create an 18.5km passenger route on rail lines currently used for rail freight across west and northwest London.
If built, the West London Orbital (WLO) could run up to six trains an hour and provide ten new interchanges with rail and Underground

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Westminster Abbey to display a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien

23-09-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner will get a new resident next year, when a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien is unveiled to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit.
The Tree of Amalion, 1928 (c) Tolkien Trust, 1978
The new memorial has been inspired by Tolkien’s Tree of Tales, which he called the Tree of Amalion. Featuring the imagery of a tree in a forest as its central theme, it will be a significant new artwork for the Abbey, inlaid vertically within a stone pil

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New step-free Tube entrance opens at King’s Cross St Pancras station

23-09-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

King’s Cross St Pancras tube station has gained a new step-free entrance, replacing two staircases that used to block the pavement.The station’s main entrances are on the north side of Euston Road, on the same side as the mainline railway stations, but it also has a subway under the road to the south side. However, that subway ended in two staircases that lacked lifts and also obstructed half the pavement, creating a well-known bottleneck for pedestrians.
The old entrance in March 20

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