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Informa CEO doesn’t seem to fancy the BT job
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Tickets Alert: Routemaster bus history tour of Richmond
via ianvisits.co.ukThere’s a chance to go on a tour around some of the key historic locations in the Richmond area, with your journey between them taking place in a Routemaster bus.
The tours will be conducted in Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill’s classic Routemaster bus, and money raised from the tours will support the local Habitats & Heritage charity’s conservation work.
Two tours will take place on Saturday 1st June 2024:Morning tour
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Demolition of the old Museum of London approved — but also delayed
via ianvisits.co.ukThe City of London has approved plans to demolish the former Museum of London building and neighbouring Bastion House, but the Communities Secretary Michael Gove has also called the plans in for review.Michael Gove’s department issued an Article 31 Holding Direction yesterday, which technically prevents the City of London from making a decision until his department has also reviewed the plans. So, the City of London has been able to indicate that it approves the plans, but construction wor -
Hampton Court Palace gardens free open days
via ianvisits.co.ukA few weekends each year, the expansive gardens surrounding Hampton Court Palace are open to visitors for free.As it happens, the gardens used to be free to wander around every morning, but that changed after the pandemic, and now they’re only open a few days a year — but the upside is that they’re open for the entire day.
The gardens are huge and exceptionally varied, ranging from neat formal box hedged spaces to wide open lawns and even the so-called wilderness, which is pret -
Horizon 22 – London’s highest viewing gallery can now be rented for private events
via ianvisits.co.ukHorizon 22, London’s highest — and free — viewing gallery is now available to be hired for events as well.
Horizon 22 (c) ianVisits
Fortunately for the crowds who throng to visit during the daytime, events can only take place in the early morning or evenings, so the viewing gallery will remain a free venue during the daytime.
For people wanting the space for their private events, it is now available from 6am to 9.30am and 7pm to 3am, seven days a week, and has a capacity for up -
Visit the church of St Martin Within Ludgate
via ianvisits.co.ukThis is an unusually designed church close to St Paul’s Cathedral, which has probably existed for around 900 years, although naturally, the current building is much younger.It’s claimed, dubiously, to be where legendary King Cadwallo was buried in 677, although he was likely furious about this, as he would have still been alive at the time. He didn’t die for another five years.
In fact, the earliest known reference to a church here is much later, dating to around 1174, and the -
Discovering Britain’s cultural tapestry at UAL’s folk costume exhibition
via ianvisits.co.ukA horse’s skull on a pole sits in a room with pearly queens and morris dancers as part of an exhibition looking at Britain’s rich traditions of folk dance.The exhibition in the London College of Fashion is a brisk visit to the world of carnivals and dances, and not just olde England, but the 1970s restorations of lost traditions and modern interpretations that mix in multicultural influences.
It’s a mix of showing off traditional dance costumes as works of creative art and tell -
Urgent talks to buy more Elizabeth line trains
via ianvisits.co.ukAlstom, the train manufacturer, has confirmed that it’s in “intense discussions” with the government and Transport for London (TfL) about a fresh order of new trains for the Elizabeth line.
Elizabeth line trains in Old Oak Common depot (c) ianVisits
Alstom has warned that its Derby factory could close due to a gap in production with no new orders expected, and that could see 1,300 staff made unemployed and some 15,000 jobs in the supply chain put at risk. The company has future -
Tickets Alert: Visit the 10 Downing Street garden
via ianvisits.co.ukAs part of the annual Open Gardens weekend, there’s a chance to visit the garden at 10 Downing Street, and the ballot for tickets is now open.There will be two tours on Saturday June 8th, 2024. As there is a limit of 24 people per tour, a free ballot is being run to win a place.
If you are selected for a place on the tour, you must take a photographic ID with you (either a Passport or Driving Licence), and there’s a minimum age of 12 years for visitors.
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Entente Cordiale exhibition shows off the secret pact between Britain and France
via ianvisits.co.ukAs you might have seen in the news recently, it’s the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, when Britain and France signed several agreements to stop bothering each other.There’s also a short-run exhibition about the diplomatic shenanigans that led to the two European powers agreeing to be cordial over their territorial disputes — being held at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni in South Kensington.
It’s predominantly a lot of history boards which start on t -
Celebrate the centenary of London Underground’s Camden Junction tunnels
via ianvisits.co.ukThis Saturday (20th April) marks the centenary of one of the London Underground’s most impressive engineering feats. Despite thousands of people using it every day, hardly anyone ever gets to see it in its full glory.
Reproduced with kind permission of Dan Dare Corp Ltd.
This is Camden Junction, the massively complicated set of tunnels that linked the two branches of the Northern line and they carried their first passengers on 20th April 1924.
The junction owes its existence to a number of -
Pitzhanger Manor acquires Julian Opie’s walking man
via ianvisits.co.ukA walking man who has approaching Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery since 2021 but never arriving will remain stuck in place as the digital artwork has been bought by the gallery to go on permanent display.
(c) Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Julian Opie’s LED sculpture, Curly Hair, 2021 was first shown at Pitzhanger in 2021 as part of Julian Opie’s solo exhibition, coinciding with the reopening of the gallery post-COVID lockdown.
The acquisition of Curly Hair was made possible by the ge -
Dalston’s Kingsbury Road pedestrian and cyclist bridge has reopened
via ianvisits.co.ukAn important cycle and pedestrian route over the London Overground in Dalston has reopened after Network Rail completed bridge replacement works.
The reopened Kingsbury Road bridge (c) Network Rail
The bridge, originally built in 1913, closed late last year as it need to be replaced as the iron girders that supported it were becoming corroded. Engineers demolished the old bridge over Christmas 2023 and then lifted in the replacement with a crane over the last weekend of January 2024.
Now that it -
Umbro 100: Exhibition looks at sports clothing’s cultural impact
via ianvisits.co.ukDown a goods delivery ramp and past the bins is an unexpected location for an exhibition about football shirts — but that’s what you can find underneath a Marylebone building at the moment.The exhibition marks the centenary of the British sportswear brand Umbro, which was founded in 1924 by brothers Harold and Wallace Humphreys. The company’s name is a portmanteau of um, from Humphreys, and bro, from brothers.
However, it’s not entirely a look back at the history of the c -
London’s Alleys: Cavendish Court, EC2/EC3
via ianvisits.co.ukThis is a narrow winding alley close to Liverpool Street station that’s been here in some shape or form since Tudor times.This part of London is just on the outskirts of the old Roman Wall around the City of London. The name of the road the alley leads off on the western side, Houndsditch, comes from the “moat” that ran around the outside of the Roman wall, where it’s suggested feral dogs scavenged from rubbish dumped in the ditch.
The land was fairly undeveloped and used -
You’ll love this Intercity 125 video set to electronic music
via ianvisits.co.ukThe music group, Vieon recently released a single as an ode to the venerable Intercity 125 train with a ton of retro film footage set to rather soothing electronic music.It reminds me of how Kraftwerk wrote a hymn to the Trans Europ Express service, which, for a while, ran trains across the mainland, linking far-flung cities in comfort and speed. In the UK of course, the Intercity 125 was the future once, and it still manages to evoke a certain sense that somehow rail travel had a golden age (it -
Wrecking Telecom Italia’s landline deal would widen shareholder losses
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Ibrahim Mahama wraps the Barbican Art Centre in massive pink fabrics
via ianvisits.co.ukThe Barbican Art Centre has been covered in a gigantic bright pink wrapper providing a sharp contrast to the rest of the Brutalist estate.This is Purple Hibiscus, a monumental site-specific artwork by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama created from some 2,000 square metres of bespoke woven cloth created by women weavers and sewing collectives in Ghana.
It’ll probably remind many of the works by Christo artistic duo, where the two partnered to cover buildings in sheets of fabric. The differ -
Jools Holland and a free light show to mark the National Gallery’s 200th birthday
via ianvisits.co.ukJools Holland will be headlining the National Gallery’s Friday Lates next month as the gallery celebrates its 200th anniversary, with music inside and a light show outside.
Lightshow render (c) Visual Edge Media / nVisible Productions
On Friday 10th May 2024, Jools Holland will perform in the Rausing Room as part of a curated programme with musical friends Ruby Turner MBE, Louise Marshall, and Sumudu. Across the rest of the Gallery, there will be DJ sets, music from London Contemporary Voi -
Consultation into housing next to Hampton Court railway station
via ianvisits.co.ukA long running plan to build houses on the car park next to Hampton Court railway station has been referred to a new consultation to see if it can proceed.
The site is a combination of Network Rail land next to the railway station and the demolished site of the Jolly Boater pub, and there is an approved application to build several blocks making up nearly 100 flats and a small hotel on the site.
The riverside building would comprise three storeys with an additional storey accommodated within gab -
Exploring Ranjit Singh: A warrior King’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection
via ianvisits.co.ukShining brightly in the middle of an atmospheric exhibition is a gold lotus flower throne, on a rare loan that, for the first time, lets us see the intricately decorated back, which is even more impressive than the front.This is the throne of Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire, which stretched across parts of modern-day northern India and Pakistan. Normally kept in the V&A Museum, it’s very rarely loaned out to a London museum. Here, it’s freestanding instead of up against -
There’s now a range of London Underground themed craft beers
via ianvisits.co.ukA brewer has released a London Underground-themed beer range and an exclusive London Craft Beer tube map. Beer52, in collaboration with Transport for London (TfL) launched the range of 16 beers to celebrate London’s craft brewing scene and its transport network.
(c) IMG / Beer52
The London Beer Tour, in collaboration with TfL, showcases the diversity and creativity of London’s breweries. Each brewery featured within the collection has been inspired by its own corner of the city, its -
More details about the LNER wagon found buried in Belgium
via ianvisits.co.ukNew information has come to light following theunexpected discovery of a former LNER storage wagon in Belgium, 500 miles from the train operator’s UK headquarters. That an old LNER luggage wagon was found in Belgium isn’t hugely surprising as international freight was widespread — but why it was buried in the ground is a very big mystery.
(c) Archaeological Service, City of Antwerp
A team from the Urban Archaeology department of the City of Antwerp unearthed the train carriage -
A phoenix emerges: New public sculpture unveiled near Gallions Reach DLR station
via ianvisits.co.ukA phoenix has appeared near Gallions Reach DLR station in East London as a new public sculpture for the University of East London’s Docklands Campus.It was commissioned last summer from the Architecture and Visual Arts (AVA) students, who were asked to create a large sculpture to celebrate UEL’s 125th anniversary. Students were challenged to present their designs to the UEL executive board using computer-generated images to showcase their sculptures in situ, coupled with details of w -
South Africa’s MTN to boost investment in generators to combat blackouts
via ft.comTelecoms group joins growing list of companies plugging shortfalls from state electricity provider -
Perivale golf course to be converted into a public park
via ianvisits.co.ukA large swathe of land in west London that’s currently operated as a private golf course is to be opened up as a new public park. The Perivale Park Golf Course is a 9-hole course covering 21 hectares of open space built in 1900 but will soon be turned into a public space.
In a peak month, as a golf course, it can see as many as 600 people using it. However, that’s far fewer people than a popular public park of that size would expect to see on just a single summer weekend, so the golf -
Holy Crispiness! Worship at a stained glass window shrine to fried chicken
via ianvisits.co.ukIn north London there’s a very unusual stained glass window – where you can pray to the god of fried chicken nuggets.Before the righteous start writing letters of protest, it’s an artwork by the Margate-based painter Jack Hirons and is a sort of homage to a locally famous chicken-in-a-box seller
The Chick-King fast food restaurant is next to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and is a legendary location for football fans to get some greasy protein, so the artist has created a shrine -
There’s a 30-year old dead rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
via ianvisits.co.ukFor over thirty years, a dead rabbit has hung inside Seven Sisters tube station, and thousands of people walk past it every day without noticing.The dead rabbit is a legacy of an early form of mobile phone technology, albeit one that lasted less than two years before closing down.
We need to jump back to 1989, when the government awarded four licenses to operate Telepoint services, with the aim that their lower costs would offer competition to the country’s two mobile networks – Cell -
London’s last unprotected cabmen’s shelter gets heritage protection
via ianvisits.co.ukThere are a baker’s dozen surviving cabmen’s shelters in London, with their distinctive green shed appearance. All but one are protected from demolition. Now, the last of the thirteen — near Lord’s Cricket Ground — has been granted Grade II heritage protection from demolition.
Cabmen’s shelter on Wellington Place, St John’s Wood (c) Historic England Archive
A charity, the Cabmen’s Shelter Fund built the wooden huts as rest stops for lic -
Rare chance to see a Titian painting prior to sale
via ianvisits.co.ukA date for your diaries as a painting by Titian, estimated to be worth as much as £25 million, but once stored in a plastic carrier bag, is coming to London. Painted around 1512, the painting by the Italian artist Titian, Rest on the Flight into Egypt shows Joseph, Mary, and Jesus as they stop to rest during their flight into Egypt.
(c) Christie’s
Over the centuries, the painting has been owned by Dukes, Archdukes and Holy Roman Emperors, looted by Napoleon, and 145 years ago, it was
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