Open House London - Where I've been before

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Where I've been in the past, by vague category:
(Updated to include 2023)

Religious:
St Alfege Church
St Anne's Church
Holy Trinity Church
New West End Synagogue
Kilmorey Mausoleum
Devonport Mausoleum
Masonic Temple
Freemasons' Hall
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
St Paul's, Newington
Fitzrovia Chapel


Town halls/clock towers:
Hampstead Old Town Hall
Finsbury Town Hall
City Hall
Westminster City Hall
Limehouse Town Hall
Guildhall
Caledonian Park Clocktower
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower
Chrisp Street Market Clocktower
Kingsley Hall
York House

Official/government/police:
Foreign Office
Banqueting house
Admiralty house
Custom House
Thames River Police
International Maritime Organization
Fire Brigade Memorial Hall

Libraries:
Marx Memorial Library
Canada Water Library

Education:
London School of Economics
College of Psychic Studies
Blizard Building
The Centre of the Cell and Neuron Pod
City of London School
Rudolf Steiner House
Gresham College - Barnard's Inn Hall
UCL Pearl
The Wash Houses

Transport:
Whitechapel Crossrail
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail
Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
Canary Wharf Crossrail Station construction site
Peckham Rye Old Waiting Room
20 years of TFL (self guided walk)
Barbican Platform Garden
Crystal Palace Subway
Stockwell Bus Garage
Bank/Monument station

Museums/Galleries/theatre/music/film/etc:
Brunel Museum
Antique breadboard museum
Orleans Gallery
Village Underground
Wilton's Music Hall
The Stables
Sandycombe Lodge
ArtsLav
St John's Smith Square
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library
Altazimuth Pavilion
The Clockworks
New Museum of London
Now Gallery
Royal Opera House
Museum of Neoliberalism
Swedenborg House
People's Museum Somerstown
New River Head/Quentin Blake Illustration Centre
St Bride Foundation
Earl's Court Development company
TJ Boulting

Livery halls/profession specific:
Carpenters' Hall
Chartered Accountants' Hall
Vintner's Hall
Apothecaries' Hall
Institution of Structural Engineers
Master Mariners/ HQS Wellington
Drapers' Hall
Cutlers' Hall (part of the Thames Festival as opposed to Open House.)
Painters' Hall
Artworkers' guild
Present and Correct Stationers
Royal Society
Linnean Society
Geological Society of London
Royal Society of Chemistry
Stationers' Hall
Lincoln's Inn

Bunkers/grottos:
Neasden Bunker
St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
Shell Grotto
Anderson Shelter

Embassies/country specific:
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
Romanian Cultural Institute
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
Argentine Ambassador's Residence
Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK)
Pushkin House

Drinks/trays/bricks:
Sweetdram
Blackbook Winery
Seager Distillery Tower
Kaymet
E.H. Smith.
Square Root factory

Pumping stations/industrial:
Greenwich Pumping Station
Abbey Mills Pumping Station
South East London Combined Heat and Power
Bunhill Heat and Power
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre
West India Dock Impounding Station
Battersea Power Station
The Pumphouse, Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
Limehouse Accumulator Tower
Energy Hub
Streatham Pumping Station
Eon Energy
King George V Pumping Station

Walks:
Hackney Wick self-guided art tour
East Putney - Self-guided modern architecture walk
Blackfriars Arts Treasure Hunt

Housing:
Bevin Court
One Blackfriars
Dawson Heights
Trellick Tower
Balfron Tower
37A Leamington Road Villas
BedZED
The Small House
Adaptable House
Tin House
Golden Lane Estate
Water Tower
Vanbrugh Park Estate
Nubia Way
Skip House
Walters Way

Roman baths/historic:
Roman Plunge bath
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
Old Turkish Baths
Spitalfields Charnel House
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
Crofton Roman Villa
Manor House Gardens ice house
Temple Bar

Offices/tall buildings:
Tower 42
Cheesegrater (The Leadenhall Building)
100 Victoria Embankment - Unilever House
240 Blackfriars
CityPoint (Simmons & Simmons' offices and art collection)
Angel Building
30 St Mary Axe
One Canada Square
Citigroup Centre
Lloyd's of London
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower + 201 Bishopsgate
30 Crown Place
Gibbs Building
Skyroom and Architecture Foundation
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Roca
Post Building
RSHP Studio (Leadenhall Building)
Meta's office
Low Line Arches
DSDHA

Shopping centres:
Peter Jones
One New Change
Ebury Edge

Hotels/restaurants:
Antony Gormley's ROOM at the Beaumont
The LuxPod
Babylon Roof Gardens

Community/gardens/sports:
Phoenix Gardens Community Building
Jellicoe Gardens
Treehouse
Walworth Garden

Watery:
Master Shipwright's House
Three Mills Lock
Victorian Waterpoint
Cody Dock Rolling Bridge

The numbered ones in North Greenwich:
33
A4
B4
C1
C2: Clod
C3 - Bureau
D1
D4

Comments

[squirmelia]

By year:

2023:
Eon energy
Bank/Monument station
The Wash Houses
Skip House
International Maritime Organization
Fire Brigade Memorial Hall
UCL Pearl
Temple Bar
Stationers' Hall
Fitzrovia Chapel
TJ Boulting
King George V Pumping Station
Square Root factory
Table top museums at Artworkers' Guild
Present and Correct Stationers
Royal Society
Linnean Society
Geological Society of London
Royal Society of Chemistry
Cody Dock Rolling Bridge
A4
B4
C2: Clod
D1
D4
Walters Way

2022:
Golden Lane Estate
RSHP Studio at Leadenhall Building (Cheesegrater)
The Centre of the Cell and Neuron Pod
Painters' Hall
Swedenborg House
Pushkin House
Post Building
E.H. Smith
St Bride Foundation
Jellicoe Gardens
Meta's office
The Water Tower
People's Museum Somerstown
New River Head/Quentin Blake Illustration Centre
The Treehouse
Earl's Court Development Company
Low Line Arches
Anderson Shelter
Energy Hub
Walworth Garden
St Paul's, Newington
DSDHA
Streatham Pumping Station.
Stockwell Bus Garage
Vanbrugh Park Estate
Lincoln's Inn
Artworkers' guild - Table Top Museums
Nubia Way

2021:
Drapers' Hall
Cutlers' Hall (part of the Thames Festival as opposed to Open House.)
Gresham College - Barnard's Inn Hall
Freemasons' Hall
Ebury Edge
The Clockworks
Westminster Quaker Meeting House
New Museum of London
Royal Opera House
Phoenix Gardens Community Building
Crofton Roman Villa
Manor House Gardens ice house
Museum of Neoliberalism

2020:
Blackbook Winery
“20 years of TFL” self-guided walk
Hackney Wick self-guided art tour
Antique Breadboard Museum
East Putney self-guided tour of modern art



2019:
Master Shipwright's House
Greenwich Pumping Station
Seager Distillery Tower
Altazimuth Pavilion
Devonport Mausoleum
St Alfege Church
St John's Smith Square
South East London Combined Heat and Power
Roman Plunge bath
HQS Wellington
London School of Economics
Hampstead Old Town Hall

2017:
Whitechapel Crossrail
Wilton's Music Hall
Sweetdram
Bunhill Heat and Power
Institution of Structural Engineers
Bevin Court
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility
Kaymet
One Blackfriars
Peckham Rye Old Waiting Room

2016:
Dawson Heights
Tottenham Court Road Crossrail
Old Ford Water Recycling Centre
Three Mills Lock
Kingsley Hall
Caledonian Park Clocktower
Victorian Waterpoint
St Pancras Chambers and Clocktower
West India Dock Impounding Station
Thames River Police
Sands Film Studios & Rotherhithe Picture Research Library
Brunel Museum

2015:
1. Tower 42
2. Guildhall
3. Barbican Platform Garden
4. Abbey Mills Pumping Station
5. Pudding Mill Lane Crossrail
6. Trellick Tower
7. 37A Leamington Road Villas
8. New West End Synagogue
9. Embassy of the Slovak Republic
10. St Leonard's Air Raid Shelter
11. Kilmorey Mausoleum
12. Rudolf Steiner House
13. Antony Gormley's ROOM at the Beaumont


2014:
Cheesegrater (The Leadenhall Building)
Blackfriars Arts Treasure Hunt
100 Victoria Embankment - Unilever House
240 Blackfriars
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
CityPoint (Simmons & Simmons' offices and art collection)

Canary Wharf Crossrail Station construction site
Marx Memorial Library
Finsbury Town Hall
Angel Building
The Small House
ArtsLav

2013:
Crystal Palace Subway
Canada Water Library
Carpenters' Hall
Chartered Accountants' Hall
One Canada Square
Citigroup Centre
Brunel Museum
Battersea Power Station
Peter Jones
Holy Trinity Church
Argentine Ambassador's Residence
Romanian Cultural Institute
Adaptable House

2012:
City Hall
Westminster City Hall
The Pumphouse, Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
Limehouse Town Hall
Limehouse Accumulator Tower
Skyroom and Architecture Foundation
Masonic Temple
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Custom House
Apothecaries' Hall
City of London School
One New Change

2011:
Lloyd's of London
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower + 201 Bishopsgate
30 Crown Place
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Spitalfields Charnel House
Sandycombe Lodge
The LuxPod
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
College of Psychic Studies
Balfron Tower
Chrisp Street Market Clocktower

2008:
Neasden Bunker
The Stables
Master Mariners
Foreign Office
Banqueting house? Admiralty house? My records are incomplete for the Saturday.
Babylon Roof Gardens
Shell Grotto
York House
Orleans Gallery
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare

2007:
Vintner's Hall
30 St Mary Axe
Old Turkish Baths
Village Underground

2006:
BedZED
Gibbs Building
Neasden Bunker
The Stables
Blizard Building
Brunel Museum

2005:
Neasden Bunker
St Anne's Church