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• Improved links between Shadwell Overground and DLR proposed

  28-12-2021 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In Shadwell, there are two stations very close to each other, but separated by a busy and often quite dirty street. Plans have been announced by Tower Hamlets council to improve the area.
  The plans will see the narrow pavements widened in places, although they still need to retain the loading bays for the local shops which has limited how much can be done. Widened pavements mean they have to repave the area, which is showing its years of neglect, so will start to look a lot smarter afterwards.Th
  
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• See the “Fragmented Illuminations” at the V&A Museum

  28-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition in the V&A museum at the moment is both a delight to the eye, and a reminder of how people would often chop medieval books up and sell off the nice pages as collectables. The most desirable pages being the ones that contained illuminations, the richly decorated illustrations that make old documents such a delight to look at, even if a person can’t understand a word of what the text says.
  Initial ‘B’, showing St Michael and the dragon, from a choirbook, about 1
  
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• Crossrail Woolwich station left short of developer funding

  28-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A shortage of developer funding has left an £8 million hole in the cost of paying for the fit-out of Woolwich’s future Elizabeth line station.Woolwich was never intended to be a stop on the Elizabeth line, but when the Crossrail project was given the go-ahead, the glaring gap on the line was increasingly obvious to most people. Even before Crossrail was approved, pressure was growing for Woolwich to be included, and apart from local regeneration benefits, it was argued that the stati
  
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