• Open days at the Transport Museum’s Acton Depot

    Open days at the Transport Museum’s Acton Depot
    Next month, the London Transport Museum is hosting the final Depot Open Day event of 2023, offering the public an opportunity to explore behind the scenes of its working Museum store in Acton Town.Normally closed to visitors, Depot Open Days are special themed events that allow the public to see the rest of the collection that’s not on display in the main Covent Garden museum.
    At the ‘Transport & Stories’ Depot Open Days event, visitors can learn about the histories and sto
  • Dennis Severs House reopening with ceramic exhibition

    Dennis Severs House reopening with ceramic exhibition
    Dennis Severs’ House, the remarkable Georgain experience has closed for repairs, but has also confirmed that it will reopen with a redisplay of their spring exhibition of Simon Pettet’s ceramics.Dennis Severs lived in the house which he part-converted, part-restored into an exceptional experience to visit between 1979 to 1999, and in 1983, was joined by his boyfriend, Simon Pettet who was an artist who specialised in ceramics. Earlier this year, for the first time in an exhibition se
  • London’s Alleys: St Chad’s Place, WC1

    London’s Alleys: St Chad’s Place, WC1
    This is a nice passageway in King’s Cross that leads from a covered entrance through to a cobbled (setts) alley, above a railway and ends in an ornately decorated building.St Chad’s Place first shows up as the area is being developed in the late 1700s as a part-built road called  Field Street.
    R Horwood Map 1799
    It may have been renamed shortly afterwards as the area built up, as it shows up just 30 years later, possibly called something like Fifteentract Lane.
    Greenwood Map 182
  • UK telecoms groups under fire for adding inflation ‘premium’ to bills

    Industry defend price rises as Britons face highest tariff hikes in Europe
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