What’s on in London this weekend (30th-31st March)
The IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, trips, heritage events, organised tours and other random miscellany happening around London this weekend.
Top events in London Today
Free Heritage bus running day in Barking
A day to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the RT buses – with a procession at the end of the day.
All Day
Barking
Free Diet and Exercise: Countering Melancholy the Eighteenth-Century Way
Georgian medicine’s recommendation of diet and exercise might sound remarkably modern, but in fact it was an age-old remedy.
2pm to :
Beckenham
£11.00 Architecture on Film – Communion Los Angeles
Stunning images enmeshed in a tapestry of sound offer a very different kind of road movie; a mesmeric, psychogeographic trip down 35 miles of blacktop through LA.
4pm to :
Barbican
£16.50 London Coffee Festival
Four days of events about coffee with lots of different things happening throughout the weekend.
All Day
Whitechapel
Free New Cross Gate Cutting Open Day
Come and explore this beautiful nature reserve which is usually closed to the public and learn about bees.
1pm to 4pm
Brockle
Top events in London on Sunday
Free Monthly opening of St Augsutine’s Tower
Discover the history of the building and climb the 135 stairs for the best view of Hackney.
2pm to 4:30pm
Hackney
£16.50 London Coffee Festival
Four days of events about coffee with lots of different things happening throughout the weekend.
All Day
Whitechapel
£5.00 Monthly open day at a Transport Museum
A monthly open day at a quirky transport museum housed in an old water pumping building.
10am to 4pm
Enfield Town
£8.00 Crossness Engines open day
An opportunity to have a look at the buildings and engines, to take in the exhibition and learn something of the Victorian sewer system which continues to serve the capital.
10:30am to 4pm
Abbey Wood