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17 July 2015
Announcement
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This blog has existed since October 2008 , and has been written almost-daily since the 2 January 2009. It's given birth to books, it has...
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15 July 2015
Listen to Brass on the Grass at Westminster Abbey
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Each summer, Westminster Abbey hosts a free series of brass band concerts in College Garden , which is accessible for non-Abbey-ticket-holde...
13 July 2015
Seek the site of the King's Bench Prison
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Originally the King's Bench Prison, and later the Queen's Prison and the Southwark Convict Prison, a prison stood on the site of wha...
12 July 2015
Celebrate Bastille Day in Borough Market
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It's Bastille Day on Tuesday, and to celebrate Borough Market is hosting a special French event, with food and drink, traditional waite...
11 July 2015
Attend Barnes Fair
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The 41st Barnes Fair kicks off on Barnes Green this morning from 9.30am, with live music, food and drink and some three hundred stalls, plus...
10 July 2015
Watch tennis in King's Cross
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Your author drank Pimm's and pretended to watch tennis until the sun set last night in the new Lewis Cubitt Square, a perhaps temporary ...
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9 July 2015
Cycle
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There's supposed to be a tube strike today, and so it seems the perfect opportunity for some evangelising about cycling in London. The b...
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8 July 2015
Attend the City Beerfest
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Timed to coincide with the City of London Festival, the City Beerfest returns to Guildhall Yard today for its third year, featuring beers fr...
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7 July 2015
Walk in Tavistock Square
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Ten years ago today at 9.47am,18 year old Hasib Hussain blew himself up on the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square, killing Anthony Fatayi-Wil...
6 July 2015
Risk booking a swim in the King's Cross pond
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This time last week - having bought a ticket - your author trekked all the way to the new King's Cross man-made natural swimming pond fo...
5 July 2015
Seek the Secret Princess of Severndroog
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A special interactive event as part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, The Secret Princess of Severndroog sees Severndro...
4 July 2015
Attend the Bermondsey Carnival
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The free Bermondsey Carnival takes place in Southwark Park today, with music, a funfair, food stalls, a rumble in the jumble jumble sale and...
3 July 2015
Watch the Waterloo Carnival procession
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A miniature Waterloo Carnival takes place today, with a myths and legends theme featuring a mythical picnic at 11.30am, a carnival at 1.30pm...
2 July 2015
Attend the London Folkfest
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Now in its 5th year, the London Folkfest begind at the Bedford in Balham today, and continues until Sunday, offering live music across three...
1 July 2015
Watch the sunset from the wall at the Cutty Sark
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This post has been written before , but once again the sunset over the Thames at the Cutty Sark - on Ballast Quay in Greenwich - was fantast...
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