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• Barbican’s conservatory is now open on Saturdays

  26-08-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wrapping around a tall tower in the Barbican is a large glass conservatory, which often surprises people to learn is, after Kew Gardens, the second largest in London.
  The conservatory wraps around the huge flytower that supports scenery for the theatre beneath your feet, and while the concrete of the Barbican is still very evident, it adds to the overall effect.Imagine a city centre abandoned by humans and overrun by plants, and that’s what you are walking through when you visit. A dystopi
  
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• Tickets Alert: Monty Python season coming to the BFI Southbank

  26-08-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Celebrate half a century of absurdity, songs, jokes and genius, from Britain’s best-loved comedic sextet.
  A series of special events and film screenings will mark the 50th anniversary of the comedy group and their films, both as Monty Python, but also the various alternatives by the team members.And Now for Something Completely Different + Q&A with actor Carol Cleveland
  Saturday 07 September 2019 15:20
  Check out all your favourite Flying Circus sketches in this bumper TV special.And No
  
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• See the astonishing gothic interior of David Parr house

  26-08-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An otherwise ordinary Victorian terrace house conceals within a Cathedral of decoration. This is David Parr House, after the man who spent a lifetime decorating it — and yet, it’s the tale of two generations, the painter and his granddaughter who preserved it.David Parr was a decent arts and craftsman working for a local firm of religious decorators, F R Leach & Sons and spent an otherwise fairly unremarkable life and without his domestic delight, might be essentially forgotten,
  
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• InfiNet Wireless to showcase highest spectral efficiency solutions for Latin American operators at ANDICOM

  26-08-2019 11:00
  Cartagena, Colombia – 26 August 2019 - InfiNet Wireless, the global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity, will showcase its latest high spectral efficiency solutions and highlight their significant benefits to service providers of all types at ANDICOM.At a time of exceptional demand within the industry for better, more reliable and higher throughput wireless infrastructures, ANDICOM sets the scene for InfiNet Wireless to share more details about its latest solutions aimed at ser
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cosmo Place, WC1

  26-08-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is an alley of mixed appearances, with a claimed link to the madness of King George III. It seems to have been built specifically as a passage between Southampton Row and the park behind. Looking back, William Morgan’s map of 1682 shows the area still fields, and what looks like a small pond where Cosmo Place is today.
  The area built up in the 18th century, by the Bedford Estate which owned much of the land in the area. The alley seems to have been left open at the same time.
  John Roc
  
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