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Brunel Museum’s expansion put on hold after railway tunnel complications

Major redevelopment of the Rotherhithe museum has been shelved after engineering challenges connected to the Windrush line delayed the project beyond its funding deadline.Read more...

200 Years On: A Close Look At The Brunels' Thames Tunnel

The first tunnel under a major river... anywhere.

Meridian Line - Stratford bridge

Greenwich Meridian

Joiner Street Bridge

{Above the South Eastern Railway emblem:}Joiner Street Bridge erected 1849.James Warren (1802 - 1870) and W. T. Monzani patented their iron girder in 1848. The triangular frames ar...

Inside the tent: Burton Mausoleum opens for first time in 70 years

Visitors are now able to step inside the unusual Mortlake mausoleum, revealing a richly detailed interior long hidden from view.Read more ›

Stoke museum gets licenced café bar

THE STOKE MUSEUM THAT IS popular with boaters now boasts of a fully licenced café bar, it being part of a £5m refurbishment.

RNLI - first HQ

Site of the first headquarters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 1824 - 1826.City of London

New display at historic boatyard created with Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum is collaborating with Tooley’s Boatyard to present a cross-cultural project between bronze caster Phil Omodamwen and resident blacksmith Emilia Orving.

Visiting Bourne Hall museum

In 1970, a flying saucer flattened a manor house near Epsom, and it’s still there – as the local library and museum.Read more ›

50th Anniversary of National Waterways Museum

THE NATIONAL WATERWAYS MUSEUM at Ellesmere Port is to celebrate its 50th Anniversary.

The forgotten plans for a metro line through Wapping Wharf with remnants still visible

You can still see where the line would have run along today

Free open day at Tilbury Cruise Terminal and a “parliamentary” bus service

If you want to see inside a disused railway station AND inside the London Cruise Terminal, AND visit an old fort, AND ride a parliamentary bus to get there, then put 9th May in you...

NATIONAL WATERWAYS MUSEUM, ELLESMERE PORT, CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND WITH 1976 TICKET PRICES

The Canal & River Trust’s National Waterways Museum, in Ellesmere Port, will celebrate its 50thanniversary weekend on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June by offering visitors entry...

Ceramic map of rail lines - System

Paddington Station - HS1 award

{Beneath the High Speed 1 logo:}The HS1 Station Environment Award, presented to Network Rail for Paddington Station Span 4, by Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust.2012Nat...

Ceramic maps - plaque

London Victoria Station Historic Tiled MapsThese hand-painted ceramic line maps were made in 1899 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway as part of an ambitious extensio...

London’s Pocket Parks: Jubilee Gardens, Mortlake, SW14

This large rectangular pocket park sits next to the riverside about halfway between Chiswick and Barnes bridges and is very, very busy on one day a year.Read more ›

A Wandle Wander – 1990

A Wandle Wander – 1990: Continuing my walk on Sunday 4th March 1990 had begun at Clapham Junction in Battersea with St John’s Road & East Hill, Battersea – 1990 and the post be...

Deep beneath London, HS2 crews finish hand-dug tunnel connections

The hand-excavated tunnels, cut through after TBM breakthrough, form critical safety and access routes along the 8.4-mile drive.Read more ›

Point Pleasant and the Thames – 1990

Point Pleasant and the Thames: Continuing my walk on Sunday 4th March 1990 had begun at Clapham Junction in Battersea with St John’s Road & East Hill, Battersea – 1990 and the...

South London's Inter-War Stations Built To Rival The Tube's

Step aside, Charles Holden.

sewer lamp

{On a plaque attached to the nearby railings:}The adjacent street light is the last remaining sewer gas destructor lamp in the City of Westminster.  Installed in association with S...

Tickets Alert: Visit Mortlake’s WWII air raid shelter

On a side street not far from Mortlake station is a set of 1930s residential flats, and in front a curious brick building – the entrance to an underground air-raid shelter. Read...

British Museum hosts preview of planned national memorial to the late Queen

There’s a chance to see Queen Elizabeth II inside the British Museum’s famous reading room, as an exhibition shows off the planned national memorial.Read more ›