A 14th-century church tower in the City of London is currently suspended in the air above a large void that has been excavated beneath it. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/med...

News | River & Rowing Museum closes to the public due to financial pressures – future of collections remains undecided as museum seeks new occupier for building

The group campaigning to prevent the demolition of the old Museum of London building has been given permission to challenge the decision in the High Court. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cam...

Give me the ghost of the glass. Give me the phantom locked in fused silicon dioxide. The spectre who whispers to vandals about stones and freedom. The temporal shade who peers through windows is a friend of mine. – #CJosiffe 1982 #Ghosts

The restoration of Richmond station to its early Art Deco grandeur has been completed, with original features repaired and lost features replicated in modern materials. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ric...

Ilan Volkov, the Israeli conductor who spoke out in the Proms concert last week, was arrested an hour ago in a protest near the Gaza border "We must stop this genocide" he said "it's destroying everyone's life. Stop it now. It must end."

No messaging at all and the website details are behind the padlocked door (south entrance). It looks like Council staff have completely given up on Greenwich Foot Tunnel. They should be held accountable for all this at all levels but ultimately TfL really must take over now. @london.gov.uk

Classic!

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Launch of Lost and Found under the Cutty Sark, an amazing project where a group of young heritage trainees each researched an object found at Greenwich or Deptford by mudlark, Nicola White.

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”. This is apparently what counts as a crime now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#tilesonTuesday Set in the wall of the former Royal Doulton factory Lambeth

Dear Prime-Minister: It ain't what you do, its the way that you do it It ain't what you do, its the place that you do it It ain't what you do, its the time that you do it And that's what gets results

Whilst storms 🌪️ rage on the west coast, here's an incredible Samian vessel from Aquae Sulis - Roman Bath - to start the week. It depicts two gladiators locked in combat ⚔️🛡️😮 An incredible survival & on display in the Roman Baths museum 📷 My own

Run Richmond 10k today from Kew Gardens to Old Deer Park. They have the best medals!! 🏃🏻‍♀️🏅

A silver portal...

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Clever. Soap dispenser, toilets, Guildhall Art Gallery London. Soap comes out as a small amount of tiny granules. Less wastage and no mess.

Artistic photo of St. Paul’s reflection

Over 100 tonnes of wet wipes that had congealed into a giant wet-wipe island in the Thames have been removed, restoring the river flow around Hammersmith. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/100...

I’ll be closing my Etsy shop tomorrow at 10pm so I can pack up orders. It’s your last chance to order my botanical greetings cards designed to relax your brain until November (when you’ll be able to order my winter collection)… Link in tweet below 🌿🧠👇🏼

The new rules that will govern pedicabs in London have been published today and will regulate pedicabs and ban them from playing loud music as they ply the streets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ped...

From Arts & Crafts patterns to medieval archaeology. These biscuits recreate stained glass fragments found a few years ago in the triforium of Westminster Abbey.

My collection of sea/river pottery👇🏼. When we look at an image we find interesting or lovely our brains release dopamine, lifting mood. To get EXTRA dopamine from my photo tho, look for (from easiest->tricky): dried larkspur, an acorn, a cherub, a lotus flower motif 🔷🔹🔷🔹🔷

My main problem with the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child was that our own cupboards weren't big enough to even fantasise about getting lost in them. I just struggled to picture it. Talking lions no problem.

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Mudlarking exhibition today - Roman Amphitheatre, Guildhall Art Gallery, London EC2V. Open till 5pm. Free!

Ah, BBC website + BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

We *may* be on BBC television/radio today, including Points West, 13:35 and 18.30. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

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Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age. This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

An old piece tracking the ghosts of Elizabethan London.

Feeling slightly low? Look for the tiny Hawaiian Trochus shell in my photo👇🏼, drilled around 100 years ago to make into a beautiful bead. When you find it your brain will release a ping of dopamine, lifting your mood slightly-a small brain hack for you 🐚

The calmness of the reflection belies the chaos caused by a large burst water-main in Westminster

Major plans that would change the face of New Cross have been submitted: knocking down shops and a 1950s council estate and replacing them with 278 new homes. The scheme has been controversial, but Lewisham Council says it is "regeneration done right". greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/08/29/a...

Guardian: "Last year, Parisians voted to triple parking costs for SUVs, in order to tackle air pollution and climate breakdown by targeting generally richer drivers in heavy, large and polluting cars. Reports suggest this is already beginning to have an impact in Paris."

Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G, Prélude

If you walked along the Thames in Spring 1941, you would have seen something remarkable - the government was trying to hide the Thames. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Two skeletons from more than 20 people found buried at the Tower of London are now offering new insights about life in early 16th-century London. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/exc...

10 of these kits are now reserved (thankyou SO much for your RTs) but I'll be listing the rest of my Victorian ink bottle posy kits 8pm UK time this eve. Will incl beautiful cobalt blues,greens,aquas, a Boots the chemist medicine bottle, a pyramidal ink bottle & no 18, which has a little lion on it🖋️

Plans to cut down more than 50 trees on Woolwich Common for a road widening project are still being pursued – but the NHS trust behind the scheme says it will plant 76 replacement trees instead.

Unexpected highlight of our #France holiday: this kitchen roll from Leclerc with #French #culinary #idioms! I've loved learning some new figures of speech. 'Raconter des salades' - tell tall tales; 'rouler dans la farine' - to swindle, con; 'soupe au lait' - short-tempered... How many do you know?

A closer view of those sunrise colours this morning here in Glastonbury.

A beautiful article about writing about archaeology - with so much to say about factual storytelling and documentary-making more generally. (I’m off to chat with my friend, the Cheshire Cat).

London Bridge Station could do with these. They'd augment the 'Ambitious and not an off the shelf item' ten metre rise escalators.