If you venture down to Mile End, you can explore Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. This is a historic cemetery that is now a local nature reserve. Although there are still a large amount of gravestones and funerary monuments spread around the cemetery, the area now resembles natural woodland, with many bird and insect species making it their… More Exploring A Cemetery At Mile End
It’s often said that you never visit what’s on your doorstep. Sometimes because the attractions become so familiar that you just expect them to always be there. And sometimes it’s because you don’t know they exist. Or maybe you do know they exist, as you’ve heard their name, but you have no idea what’s there… More Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill House
Halloween-themed haunted houses first emerged during the Great Depression as ways to distract young tricksters. Groups of families would deck out their basements with home made scary decorations. Then they would hold “house-to-house” parties, where the children would travel from basement to basement, experiencing different scary scenes. Trails Of Terror A 1937 party pamphlet is quoted in Lisa… More Haunted House Trail
This summer we visited the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bruges. On the way to our hotel, we passed one of the large art installations currently situated on the canals. Large art installations – What’s that all about? From 5 May to 16 September 2018 Triennial Bruges 2018 is taking place. Held once every three years an artistic route spreads across… More On a hunt for modern art around Bruges
Sitting on the edge of Epping Forest, on the London/Essex border, is the London suburb of Chingford. It is host to an array of urban and countryside heritage.… More Chingford’s heritage
It didn’t seem that long ago that my intrepid team of investigators were dispatched to UCL Museums to solve a fiendish murder mystery. Now our help was needed again. This time a young curator had disappeared. Disappeared! The next few hours were spent combing the UCL museums, searching for clues. The team visited the Grant Museum… More Another Murder Mystery at UCL
Treasure Hunts in London Treasure Hunts in London offers a range of self guided treasure hunts, as well as fully managed experiences, throughout London. Taking part is easy. Start by downloading the free ClueKeeper app for your mobile device on the App Store or Google Play. Then decide which Treasure Hunts in London self guided hunt you want to experience. There are… More Treasure Hunts in London self guided treasure hunts
Escape Land is located on Oxford Street and houses two escape rooms, Professor Oxford’s Experiments and Da Vinci’s Exploration Professor Oxford’s Experiments, is an adaptation of their earlier Escape from the Age of Steampunk. The latter game was my first experience of Escape Rooms and started my love of them. The Plot Locked inside the Mad… More Professor Oxford’s Experiments
Pity the poor gift recipient. We all know that deciding what to buy your loved one can be tough, but do you really want to give a farm’s worth of livestock and a party load of people? That’s just what the present giver did in The 12 Days of Christmas. This traditional English Christmas carol,… More Exploring the National Portrait Gallery