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Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/gas-boilers-now-biggest-source-of-air-pollution-in-central-london-study-shows-80417/ 3 comments 14/4/2025

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Elizabeth line to accept interrail tickets https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-elizabeth-line-will-accept-european-interrail-tickets-58314/ 2 comments 28/10/2022 europe
British Library puts 1 million newspaper pages online for free https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/08/11/british-library-puts-1-million-newspaper-pages-online-for-free/ 3 comments 11/8/2021 europe
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/01/21/over-700000-paintings-from-the-rijksmuseum-online-copyright-free/ 21 comments 22/1/2021 web_design
A bale of staw is to hang from Wandsworth Bridge https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/12/14/a-bale-of-staw-is-to-hang-from-wandsworth-bridge/ 5 comments 14/12/2020 nottheonion
How the world’s first underground railway was built http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/12/28/how-the-worlds-first-underground-railway-was-built/ 6 comments 28/12/2012 history
London’s lost Victorian pneumatic railways http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/11/26/londons-lost-pneumatic-railways/ 5 comments 30/11/2012 history
Closed for 130 years, the public observation tower in central London http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/10/30/closed-for-130-years-the-public-observation-tower-in-central-london/ 31 comments 30/10/2012 history
180 years ago London had a human powered monorail. http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/04/28/londons-lost-suspension-railway-at-kings-cross/ 3 comments 30/4/2012 history
The ancient Trial of the Pyx will be carried out today to check the quality of British coinage. http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2009/02/10/the-trial-of-the-pyx/ 5 comments 7/2/2012 history
The London Underground tunnel - bombed and flooded in 1940 - and still sealed shut http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/10/26/the-northern-line-tunnel-that-was-bombed-and-flooded-in-1940-and-is-still-sealed-shut/ 9 comments 26/10/2011 history
A Grand Day Out – Taking London's "Boris Bikes" to Paris http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/08/21/a-grand-day-out-taking-the-boris-bikes-to-paris/ 9 comments 22/8/2011 bicycling
This Sunday marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Oliver Cromwell - which took place two years after he had died. http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/01/26/the-350th-anniversary-of-the-execution-of-oliver-cromwell/ 3 comments 26/1/2011 history
350 years ago today - Thomas Harrison was hanged and then being half dead, was cut down, his Privy Members cut off before his eyes, his Bowels burned, his Head severed from his Body, and his Body divided into Quarters. http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2010/10/12/civil-war-march-through-whitehall-to-mark-the-nine-regicides/#regicides 43 comments 13/10/2010 history
A Panorama of New York city originally printed in 1855 http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2010/05/21/a-panorama-of-new-york-city-in-1855/ 7 comments 30/8/2010 history
Huge and beautiful London Panorama -- 1845 http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/maps/london_1845_panorama.php 20 comments 11/8/2010 history