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• Two weeks left to visit the Marble Arch Mound

  27-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s almost hard to believe but the infamous Marble Arch Mound closes in two weeks time, so you better hurry up if you want to visit.
  From a blaze of publicity to ignoble infamy when the construction costs soared, almost everything was late, and then even the entry fee had to be scrapped.
  I have noted previously, that while not what was planned, it’s still reasonably fun to visit, and the recent addition of the light exhibition inside the Mound, also delivered late, has added to its
  
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• London’s Alleys: Rising Sun Court, EC1

  27-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a small side alley in Smithfield that’s famous for the pub that dominates the corner opposite Great St Bart’s church.The alley is named after the pub on the corner, the Rising Sun, even though the pub’s official address isn’t Rising Sun Court, but 38 Cloth Fair, the main road the alley connects to. The pub may have originally been called The Starre Tavern, as two houses were converted into a tavern, and listed as such in 1616, and later renamed the Rising Sun Tave
  
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