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The Sidney Street Mural: Digging Into The Details
Continuing our series exploring the capital's great murals. Image: Matt Brown Today, we're looking at one of London's newest works of public art. Sidney Street runs through the East End between...
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Best Of Londonist: 14-20 July 2025
Your weekly roundup of Londonist news and features. Imberbus: Ride Vintage London Buses Over Salisbury Plain This August THE bus event of the year? Kew's Palm House To Close For Five Years Major refit...
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When Pigs That Could Spell, Read And Count Were All The Rage
This Thomas Rowlandson cartoon from 1785 shows that clever pigs were a thing before Toby came along. Image: public domain He was a clever swine, alright. If you've found yourself browsing the...
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Things To Do In Sevenoaks
Knole House sits in the middle of Knole Park. Photo: Londonist Sevenoaks. Sounds bucolic doesn't it? Well, you can shred that image right away; the original seven trees in Knole Park are long gone,...
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 July 2025
Budget-friendly things to do in London this week for £5 or less. Dive into free lido Summer Splash. Image: Emma Nathan/Royal Docks Looking for more free things to do in London? Here are 102 of em!...
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You Might Soon Be Able To Climb Brentford's Italianate Tower Again
The Victorian tower (often mistaken for a chimney stack) is a familiar site on the Brentford horizon. Image: London Museum of Water & Steam If you've been anywhere in the vicinity of Brentford,...
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 26-27 July 2025
All weekend Contraptions and Connections opens at the Heath Robinson Museum. Image: "Ellis Train" – Tim Ellis WING FEST: Arrive hungry at the London Stadium in Stratford for Wing Fest, apparently the...
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Explore The 'Train Of The Future' At King's Cross
'Windows' will allow you to see into the future of train travel. Usually a 'Train of the Future' at King's Cross station means that it's leaving 52 minutes after it was supposed to. But on Wednesday...
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8 Lovely Lakeside Walks Near London
The lake at Hever Castle. Photo: Laura Reynolds Don't know about you, but sometimes we crave escaping London for the day — and being near the water. The seaside is an option of course, but when that's...
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Things To Do In London Over The August 2025 Bank Holiday Weekend
Notting Hill Carnival is a staple of the August bank holiday in London. Photo: Angel Ganev via creative commons Looking for things to do in London over the August bank holiday weekend (23-25 August...
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Major Shake-Up To DLR Timetable Ahead Of New Trains Later This Year
The new DLR trains should now be with us later in 2025, but not before more major disruption on the network. Image: TfL Services on sizeable parts of the DLR line will be temporarily paused, ahead of...
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The Human League Did '28 Days Later' 14 Years Earlier
The shots of a young Cillian Murphy staggering across a deserted Westminster Bridge in 28 Days Later are among the most iconic scenes in British cinema. But some eerily similar footage was used to...
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Competition: Win A Free Weekend BMW Car Rental With SIXT To Celebrate The...
This is a sponsored article on behalf of SIXT. Win a BMW for the weekend! Oasis' swaggering 1994 debut single Supersonic features a famous line about riding in a BMW — and now there's a chance for...
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What Lies Behind The Egyptian Facade Of The Old Carlton Cinema On Essex Road?
Nigel Smith outside the former Carlton Cinema on north London's Essex Road You've got to admire the audacity of the former Carlton Cinema on Essex Road. Part Cairo, part Vegas — half pharaoh's tomb,...
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22 Events Worth Leaving London For This August
See the world premiere of Anne Boleyn: The Musical Fancy getting out of London for a day, but not sure where to head? Here are some very good reasons to (temporarily) leave London in August 2025, and...
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Take A Free Water Bike Ride In Stratford This Thursday
Fancy a free peddle on the water? If you're in the vicinity of Stratford this Thursday (24 July), a free ride along the river could be on the cards. To promote the launch of Side Quests, a website...
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London Podcast Festival: Big Names On Line-Up For 10th Anniversary
The No Such Thing As A Fish gang make multiple appearances at the festival. For anyone who ever said podcasts were a fleeting fad, the 10th edition of the London Podcast Festival lands in King's Cross...
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When A 17-Metre-Long Whale Washed Up In Greenwich... But All Wasn't As It Seemed
The 17-metre-long whale was made from fibreglass, but looked hyper realistic. In June 2013, scores of Londoners walking by the beach near the Cutty Sark in Greenwich must've gasped in shock — at the...
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London's Museum Lates: Top Evening Events In The Capital
Lots of London's biggest museums host late night events. Image: Victoria and Albert Museum London Many of London's museums and galleries stay open after hours on a regular basis for 'museum lates',...
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55+ Summery Things To Do In London This Month: August 2025
Get stuck into Meatopia at Tobacco Dock SUMMER HOLIDAYS: With schools closed, we've put together a guide to spending the summer holidays in London, packed full of family-friendly events, exhibitions...
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Sip Your Way Around The World At This Huge Wine Festival
This is a sponsored article on behalf of Laithwaites. Discover 350 wines from 17 countries at the Laithwaites Wine Festival Know about the festival that's been shaping London's wine scene for well...
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London Month Of The Dead 2025 - A Spine-Chilling Array Of Events
Explore Highgate Cemetery as part of London Month of the Dead. Image: iStock/Daniel Lange We might not even be into autumn yet, but already there's a chill in the air... Perhaps it's just the British...
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The Soho Sculpture Celebrating The Arrival Of Asylum Seekers
Image: Google Street View Soho's eccentric carving of religious refugees. Look to the north-west corner of Soho Square and you'll find a peculiar terra-cotta building, with Gothic stylings. This is...
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Best Of Londonist: 21-27 July 2025
Your weekly roundup of Londonist news and features. 55+ Summery Things To Do In London This Month: August 2025 Carnival! Afternoon Tea Week! A lovely long bank holiday weekend! Image: Oliver Rosser...
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Twin Peaks Festival Comes To London This September
The Twin Peaks weekender in east London this September features the UK premiere of documentary I Know Catherine, The Log Lady. "I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it...
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Dozens Of Vintage Boats Moor Up In Central London This September
The Classic Boat Festival returns to St Katharine Docks. Image: St Katharine Docks Around 50 preserved vintage boats are mooring up at central London's only marina for a free festival. The Classic...
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Victorious Lionesses To Parade Through Central London On An Open Top Bus
You'll have a chance to thank/celebrate with the Lionesses in person on Tuesday. Image: Londonist IT'S STAYING HOME! After yet another edge-of-the-seat 'we're-definitely-going-to-lose-aren't-we?'...
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 28 July-3 August 2025
Budget-friendly things to do in London this week for £5 or less. See 3,000 rubber ducks released into the water in Paddington. Looking for more free things to do in London? Here are 102 of em! We've...
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Tate Modern To Open Late Every Friday And Saturday From September
From the end of September 2025, the Tate Modern will open late on Fridays and Saturdays. The Tate Modern will open late every Friday and Saturday from later this year. Opened 25 years ago, the South...
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 August 2025
All weekend It's Ice Weekend at London Canal Museum SPIRIT OF ART: The Spirit of Art Whisky & Gin Festival is at Crane Court Gallery near Fleet Street, celebrating the opening of the Square Mile...
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What's The Average Rent In Each London Borough?
Click/tap for larger version Rent. It keeps going up, doesn't it? Well, not always. Over the past year, the average rental price has increased in 31 of London's 32 boroughs. But not in Brent. This...
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Totally Thames 2025: London's Month-Long Festival Of All Things Riverine
SKYE ZONE Burial is an interpretive dance piece performed in the Brunel Museum Tunnel Shaft. Image: Deborah Jaffe Totally Thames — London's annual celebration of everything riverine — is back for the...
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Were You At The Lionesses' Victory Parade? Londonist Was
The Lionesses paraded up The Mall on Tuesday 29 July, to show off their latest silverware. "Mum, we won! Football won!" shouts a small girl perched on her dad's shoulders. A few hundred people...
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Ride On Vintage London Buses For Free This September
Vintage buses will ply the 54 route between Blackheath and Elmers End. Image © David Bowker All aboard for free vintage bus rides this September! London Bus Museum's semi-regular heritage day returns...
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New Podcast Alert: TimeTable London
Ye Olde Mitre... a classic London pub... and the sort of place where TimeTable London would come from. Image: Matt Brown Get this London-themed podcast in your ears, pronto. Imagine sitting down for a...
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Famous Simpsons In The Strand Restaurant To Reopen This Autumn
The famous restaurant, which first opened in 1828, will be resurrected as a "big-theatre brasserie". The last time we wrote about the historical Simpsons in the Strand restaurant, it was auctioning...
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NBA Basketball Returns To London In 2026 - As Memphis Grizzlies Take On...
The Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies battle it out in London on Sunday 18 January 2026. Image: NBA The NBA (National Basketball Association) returns to London next year, with a regular-season...
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The Soaring Suffragist: Muriel Matters
This feature first appeared in July 2024 on Londonist: Time Machine, our much-praised history newsletter. To be the first to read new history features like this, sign up for free here. Isn’t this a...
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See A Celebrity Herd 50 Sheep Over Southwark Bridge
The days of driving livestock through the streets of London are centuries behind us. Well, except, for one day every September... "I'm no shepherd, I know that, but it was really good fun." TV and...
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Why You Should Go To... Hastings: Things To Do In The East Sussex Town
Hastings, baby! Image: Shutterstock Hastings. If you went to school in the UK, the name probably conjures up memories of history lessons — learning how William the Conqueror and his French-Norman...
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