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• Book Review: London Tube Stations 1924-1961

  08-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the 160th anniversary of the London Underground, a new book looks at something that came later — the modernist era of Holden and Pick that created the Underground we recognise today.
  (c) Philip Butler
  With words by historian Joshua Abbott and photographs by Philip Butler, this is a look at stations which can be for regular users so familiar as to be mere background noise on the commute, but for new visitors, they can be marvels of design.
  The book reminds us of the delights to be found,
  
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• The Coronation Stage will remain on display in Westminster Abbey for a week

  08-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The raised stage where the coronation took place inside Westminster Abbey is on display for the rest of this week, if you want to get up close to the yellow dais in person.Something that’s maybe harder to fully appreciate from photos is just how vibrantly yellow the carpet on the coronation stage is. It almost glows, especially when set inside a building, that for all the decoration of the altar is very much made of grey stone.
  You can see the two main thrones facing the main altar, and th
  
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• Persia to Greece at the British Museum challenges the clash of cultures

  08-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition opens with the two cultures facing each other, a Persian facing off against a Greek, but rather than rivals as is usually portrayed in the history books, both statues come from Cyprus, where they were jointly worshiped.
  That sets the tone for this new exhibition at the British Museum which looks occasionally at the wars between the two dominant Mediterranean cultures, the Persians and the Greeks, but mainly looks at how they influenced each other and shared ideas, if not always ide
  
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• Australian pension fund buys $660mn stake in European mobile towers

  08-05-2023 08:34 via ft.com
  UniSuper is latest ‘superfund’ to target deals outside home market with investment in Vantage Towers
  
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• London’s Alleys: Granny Dripping Steps, NW6

  08-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a bit of a passage, and mostly a footbridge over several railways in West Hampstead that has a remarkable name that’s just too amazing to ignore. It can be found at the far end of West Hampstead tube station, offering a route across six railway tracks used by Chiltern Railways and London Underground.What was the Metropolitan Railway opened a station at West Hampstead in 1879 (now part of the Jubilee line), when all around here were still fields, but the station had to be rebuilt wh
  
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