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• Cinema tickets for £3 on Saturday

  29-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This coming Saturday, 3rd September, hundreds of cinemas across the UK are coming together to celebrate National Cinema Day, where cinema tickets will be on sale from £3 each.
  Officially they’re all £3, but cinemas have a booking fee on top, so more like “from” £3 at the cinemas who for some reason charge extra for tickets sold online as opposed to in the cinema itself.Independent cinemas
  Battersea – The Cinema in the Arches (£3 on the door –
  
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• British Museum displays shattered glass from the Beirut explosion

  29-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Ancient glass vessels, shattered in Beirut’s devastating port explosion have gone on display in London for a few weeks before they are returned to Lebanon.
  The glass vessels, which have been restored by the British Museum, come from Beirut’s AUB Museum, which sustained heavy damage to its windows and doors when the port explosion occurred in August 2020. During the explosion, a display case containing 74 vessels fell over from the force of the blast, shattering the glass objects insi
  
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• Tours of the Royal Courts of Justice have resumed

  29-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Victorian Gothic Revival style Royal Courts of Justice in central London have restarted regular tours of the 140-year old building.
  (c) Royal Courts of Justice tours
  The Royal Courts of Justice is reminiscent of a cathedral in both style and scale. Soaring arches and beautiful stained glass windows ornamented with the coats of arms of Lord Chancellors and keepers of the Great Seal, combined with a mosaic marble floor leading to a maze of enchanting corridors to create a majestic setting or e
  
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• London’s Alleys: George Yard, EC3

  29-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a former alley that’s now a large courtyard space surrounded by City offices and a Wren-built church, and sits in the centre of a cluster of smaller surviving alleys.George Yard is named after the George Inn that stood on the site in Tudor times as a large coaching inn for travellers. By the 1670s the yard had become more of a narrow alley that lead off Lombard Street and had already gained the name of George Yard, and was little changed right up to recent times.
  R Horwood map 1799
  
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