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• Giant Morph sculptures appearing in the City of London

  29-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, Tony Hart’s Morph will come to the City of London, many times, as 56 six-foot tall sculptures of Morph will be dotted around the city.
  Not made from plasticine though.
  (c) Morph’s Epic Art Adventure / David Oates
  The huge painted Morphs have been created as a charity fundraiser for the children’s charity, Whizz-Kidz, and will be sold off after the exhibition. The money raised will enable the charity to provide life-changing wheelchairs and confidence-building oppor
  
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• Refurbishment for Malden Manor’s art-deco railway station

  29-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just shy of its 85th birthday, Maldon Manor station in south London has been refurbished to restore back some of its 1930s glory.Opened on 29 May 1938, Malden Manor station sits on the Chessington branch line in South West London and is described by Hidden London as “a pleasing art deco structure that made innovative use of reinforced concrete”.
  The station was designed by the Southern Railway’s Chief Architect James Robb Scott, who played a large role in the reconstruction of
  
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• London’s Alleys: Piccadilly Place, W1

  29-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a narrow gap off busy Piccadilly that leads to a service road at the rear and seems to serve little purpose other than to separate two large buildings.Once empty fields, this part of London developed rapidly to largely built up in just a few decades in the 1660s-80 as London expanded westwards from Whitehall and St James.
  Initially, the alley seems to have been called Maggots Yard, which is not an indicator of its function, but was named after the Meggott family which had a lease from th
  
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• Can the UK’s telco giants course correct?

  29-05-2023 06:00
  BT and Vodafone have unveiled large job cuts, but investors await evidence they can prosper
  
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