Entries from Londonist tagged with 'touristattractions'
July 31, 2008
An aid agency is trying to achieve what the Luftwaffe and V-2 rockets failed to do: the destruction of St. Paul's cathedral. ActionAid has submitted an application to the City, requesting the "total demolition" of Wren's 17th century masterpiece, in order that they can search for precious metals underneath. Surely they can't be serious. The very idea! What's yanked the chain of these cheeky chariteers? The request is actually an ingenious way of calling......
Continue Reading "St. Paul's To Be Scrapped?"July 16, 2008
Back in the days when Bankside Power Station actually burned oil, it stored its fuel supply in a trio of enormous round tanks lying beneath the rear of the building. Nobody can afford such a quantity of oil these days, but the tanks are still down there, and Tate Modern has big plans for them. Last weekend, small groups of museum members toured the eerie underbelly of the institution for a look at things......
Continue Reading "Revealed: Tate Modern's Secret Art Dungeon"June 4, 2008
Last year we had Peeping Dave with his customised trainers. This time it's Peeping Warren, an upskirt tourist of epic and brazen proportions. Mr RIichardson is accused of covertly filming female buttocks in Trafalgar Square at the height of tourist season. He was also caught filming "intimate areas of a female person" outside the gates of Buckingham Palace without his leading ladies noticing. This man is wasted on petty voyeurism. He should have a......
Continue Reading "Up-Skirt Tourism In Trafalgar Square"February 26, 2008
A list of London's most popular attractions in the last year have been named. The British Museum took first place with almost 5.5 million visitors thanks to the help of a motionless army. Museum heads attributed the 12% spike in visitors to the First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army, the British Museum's most popular attraction since King Tut's goods were on display in 1972. If you want to go toe-to-toe with an army that won't......
Continue Reading "Terracotta Triumph"