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• Tickets Alert: Early mornings at the Sky Garden

  02-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Sky Garden at the top of 20 Fenchurch Street is normally open to the public from 10am, but if you buy a coffee, it’s open from 8am at the moment.
  (c) Sky Garden
  They call the offer “Sunrise at Sky Garden”, although as sunrise is at 5:30am at the moment, that might be overbranding it. Nonetheless, it’s a more pleasant way of starting the working day, with a coffee and pastry at the top of a skyscraper.
  Tickets, including the coffee and pastry cost £5.50 per perso
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit to Chevening House gardens

  02-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month is the annual open day of the gardens of a large government mansion not far from Sevenoaks that’s used by the Foreign Secretary as a grace and favour residence, currently Liz Truss MP.The building, Chevening House was built around 400 years ago to a design reputed to be by Inigo Jones as the main seat of the Earls Stanhope. It would probably still be a private house, but the last Earl Stanhope, childless and with his brother killed in WW1, effectively gifted it to the nation. A
  
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• London’s Alleys: Lamont Road Passage, SW10

  02-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a posh-looking alley to be found in Chelsea’s World’s End that has a link with the brutalist architects that designed the Barbican estate.There’s a hint of how the alley came to be where it is in the Greenwood map of 1828, where a line dividing two fields is perfectly aligned with the alley today. It’s likely that two property developments used the border between the fields for the alley.
  The OS ma at the end of the 19th-century shows an unnamed alley with a schoo
  
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• European telcos seek network investment from big tech and streamers

  02-05-2022 01:01
  Data-guzzling groups cost sector dear, trade group says, and should help with infrastructure upgrades
  
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