A small but information exhibition about the famous department store and it’s Waitrose division. Mainly lots of exhibition boards, a short video and collections of objects from the company heritage.

A factory that was set up after WWI to provide work for disabled soldiers is still doing the same, while producing most of the poppy wreaths used at memorial services today. There’s now a museum space ...

The assistance meeting point is at the ticket office during 'staff help available opening times' When station staff aren't available, the assistance meeting point is on the platform where your service ...

World famous, and world’s oldest zoo based in the heart of London. ZSL London Zoo has been entertaining and delighting visitors since opening to the public in 1847. With over 800 animal species, ...

At nearly 2,000 years old, the oldest dated image of the Buddha is currently on display in the British Museum as part of its ...

TfL has released a batch of documents that show almost every underground station in glorious 3D format. They are technically axonometric diagrams, which is 3D-like, but not to scale, which becomes ...

One of the many conditions imposed on TfL during the pandemic to keep services running when most of us were stuck at home was that it would investigate how it could introduce driverless trains on the ...

There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums. Cloudflare London office (c) ianVisits They’re not even connected ...

In the heart of Marylebone, a narrow gap between rows of upmarket shops leads to an alley that was once a notorious slum. The slums were built on the site of an actual grotto — an early tourist ...

This recently revamped Knightsbridge alley has existed on this site ever since the area was first turned from fields into posh shops. The alley first appears in R Horwood’s map of 1799 as a ...

Following the recent discovery of Roman ruins in the City of London, more details have been revealed about the plans for a new museum of Roman London’s history. Possible entrance to the new museum (c) ...

Pontoon Dock station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is set for a major overhaul now that planning permission has been granted by Newham Council. The station today (c) ianVisits Upgraded station ...