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Events and Tours

Strange customs, sporting events, tours, ticket events etc. – these Odd Days Out will require a bit more planning.

Latest Events and Tours:

The Sound Mirrors at Denge

2019-12-18
By: ODObill
On: December 18, 2019
In: Events and Tours, Historical Footnotes, Kent
With: 0 Comments

Located on the Denge marshes on the Dungeness Peninsular in Kent, lie three vast concrete structures, rising out of the flat landscape. The Sound Mirrors of Denge.Read More →

Chislehurst Caves: Human Sacrifice, Rock Gods, and Roleplay in an Underground Village

2019-10-30
By: ODOjack
On: October 30, 2019
In: Curiosities, Events and Tours, Fantastic Folklore, Historical Footnotes, London
With: 0 Comments

Chislehurst Caves has been a bomb shelter and a mushroom farm, a human sacrificial chamber, a battlefield for Time Lords, and a venue for rock concerts. Read More →

Well Dressing – a Peak District tradition

2019-10-16
By: ODOelliot
On: October 16, 2019
In: Derbyshire, Events and Tours, Fantastic Folklore
With: 0 Comments

The specific origins of the ancient practice of Well Dressing may be lost to time, however in recent years it has come to form a key part of rural life in the Peak District. Bringing people together in a celebration of all things local these wonderful displays are all at once spectacular and transient. Read More →

Three Mills Island – a secret no one should keep

2019-09-04
By: ODObill
On: September 4, 2019
In: Art and Architecture, Events and Tours, London, Niche Museums
With: 0 Comments

The history of Three Mills Island is the history of London. It ground the flour and distilled the gin to feed Londoners for hundreds of years. ODO has visited to learn more.Read More →

Prime Minister’s Question Time: How To Get A Front Row Seat

2019-08-07
By: ODOelliot
On: August 7, 2019
In: Events and Tours, London
With: 0 Comments

British parliamentary democracy has experienced a bit of a reputational downturn recently, but it’s still known around the world as the ‘mother of Parliaments’. One of the most iconic parts of British democracy is Prime Ministers Question Time (PMQs). PMQs is a weekly opportunity for the Leader of the Opposition, and MPs from across political parties, to directly field questions to the Prime Minister. Odd Days Out has been to investigate how you can join in before the entire thing collapses in on itself. History of PMQs Like many aspects of British Democracy, PMQs is the result of an informal precedent only very recently acquiringRead More →

Bata: an industrial utopia in the Essex marshlands

2019-05-01
By: ODObill
On: May 1, 2019
In: Art and Architecture, Essex, Events and Tours
With: 1 Comment

The Bata shoe factory looms incongruously out of the windswept marshlands of Essex.
Around the factory are hundreds of flat-roofed modernist houses. This is East Tilbury, once home to the Bata shoe works and company town.Read More →

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