A recently restored and richly decorated brick vaulted subway that used to link first class passengers arriving at Crystal Palace High Level railway station with the Crystal Palace building itself.

A small, two room museum that tells the some of the history of the local area, the rowing customs and of its notable residents. Dominating the main room is a 1960s scale model of Hampton Court Palace.

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, ...

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 ...

The cost of upgrading the three of the London Underground lines to driverless trains would cost at least £20 billion, for just three of the oldest lines. The figure was revealed in a recent Mayor of ...

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 ...