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• London’s newest museum opens its cells – the Bow Street Police Museum

  31-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London has gained a new museum, and it tells the story of the Bow Street Police — probably the most famous police station in the city.
  Although the famous Bow Street Runners operated from 1749-1839 as part of the local magistrate’s court, it was in 1881 that a rebuilt courthouse also added a professional police station. The police station closed in 1992, and the court in 2006, and the whole building has recently been converted into a hotel, plus a public museum for the police station
  
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• 60th anniversary of Wembley Stadium’s ski jump

  31-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s May 1961 and there’s a huge ski jump being built inside Wembley Stadium, on the football pitch.This was the International Ski Jumping Display, which ran for just two days on the 31st May and 1st June 1961, was itself a revival of similar exhibition events on Hampstead Heath in 1950/51. Over the two days, some forty ski jumpers from across Europe performed for the audiences in the stadium, raising money for the Ski Club of Great Britain to support young skiers.
  A ski slope in Lon
  
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• London’s Alleys: Fairthorne Road, SE7

  31-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is an alley in southeast London that has a unique feature in the middle, but is soon to be closed to the public. It starts off fairly conventionally as a nice brick arch between a row of Victorian houses, but down here is a most unexpected surprise.
  A railway.
  Yes, this is an alley that crosses a railway and has one of the few remaining level crossings in central London.The railway came first built in 1852 on a raised embankment and passing through what was still mainly fields at the time.
  
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