One night – one unique Matrix experience! Sunday 23 October 2011 – 7:45 PM Following on from the success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Royal Albert Hall is promoting The Matrix with live music score performed by the NDR Pops Orchestra from Hamburg, Germany. Experience this “one off” cinematic experience in high definition. Starring Keanu [...]
When the internet first hit the UK, the pioneers who set up hotel websites still received most enquiries by telephone or fax and still posted or faxed confirmations to guests. It was still a “personal service”. Nowadays, everyone is used to filling out a form, pressing a button and 10 seconds later getting your confirmation, a fully [...]
The Old Operating Theatre in Southwark is Britain’s only surviving 19th century operating theatre - offering events, talks, and walks that explore tales in the history of medicine. None of the tales match the horror of the nineteenth century corpse trade. In the early 1800s London’s cemeteries were never so busy; bodysnatchers plundered their graves [...]
The Chelsea Physic Garden, one of Londons treasures, has announced that Christopher Bailes Dip.Hort. [Kew], FI Hort. has been appointed the post of Curator, following in the footsteps of Rosie Atkins. This secret garden has been in existence in one form or another for over 400 years since the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries decided to cultivate plants to further medicine. [...]
The sound of canons will be heard across London today as Her Majesty the Queen celebrates her official birthday with the annual Trooping the Colour event. A 41 gun-salute will be fired at 12.52pm from the Tower of London, followed at 1.00pm by a 62 gun-salute from Green Park.
Each year Somerset House open-air cinema attracts thousands of film-lovers to view classic movies, old and new.
Which London hotel was Hazel Blears, the former Cabinet Member, staying in whilst she was ‘between flats’ in London? Find out here.
Ice and snow related happenings in London this Christmas
Hotel-Assist.com has launched a resource section to their London hotel website. Within this new addition, clients can easily navigate to important London listings and links to newspapers, tour operators, maps and currency exchange. Of assistance to both leisure and busines travellers is a page offering information on how to book theatre seats at discount prices. [...]
Composed and submitted by Becky Colley As a Mancunian girl, and therefore a Northerner through and through, it’s bred into me to hate ‘The South’. So imagine my surprise when I visited London for the first time this time last year and instantly fell in love. Don’t get me wrong, Manchester is a fantastic city [...]
