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• Deep borehole dug underneath Parliament over Easter

  18-04-2024 19:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the Easter holiday, a deep borehole was drilled underneath the Houses of Parliament, reaching more than twice as deep as the Elizabeth line tunnels. The 84-metre deep borehole was part of 1,500 hours of intrusive surveys across the Palace of Westminster while the MPs were away to investigate the geological condition of the ground on which the Palace stands.
  (c) Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority
  The Palace of Westminster needs extensive restoration work and the
  
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• Warning of two-week closure of the Liverpool Street to Chingford railway

  18-04-2024 16:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Liverpool Street to Chingford railway line will be closed for 16 days this summer as Network Rail replaces a large bridge supporting a road junction near the Hackney Downs.
  This will affect both London Overground and Greater Anglia services that use the railway and some changes to other services that pass through the Hackney area of London.
  The affected railway runs on arches above the streets along most of its length, but as it approaches the Hackney Downs, it dips down into a tunnel to pas
  
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• Charing Cross Library’s “Matteotti Affair” exhibition revisits 1924’s anti-fascist movement

  18-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A century ago, the kidnapping and murder of an Italian politician could have prevented the rise of Mussolini, and there’s currently an exhibition about the man in Charing Cross.The location of an exhibition about an Italian is no mere convenience, as the library has a strong Italian heritage.
  The building was actually built in 1891 for Samuel Addington & Co, a woollen merchant. They moved out, and in 1937, it was taken over by the Italian Benevolent Society. It became the London office
  
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• Murder, Mystery, and Masterpiece: Caravaggio’s last painting arrives in London

  18-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A dark, brooding painting dominates a dark room in the National Gallery at the moment, sitting next to the fragile document that only recently confirmed that this is indeed the last painting by the brilliant but flawed artist Caravaggio.This depiction of the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula – she of 11,000 virgins – was commissioned by one of Caravaggio’s patrons while the artist was still on the run after he had been convicted of murder. Being a murderer wasn’t enough to stop p
  
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• Bimetallic coin to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary

  18-04-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new coin has been issued to mark the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary, although it is unlikely to be seen in shops as it is a collectable coin.
  Although it’s a collectable coin, it’s also legal tender, in the very narrow definition of what qualifies as legal tender (no, Scottish banknotes aren’t legal tender). That required the King to authorise the production of the coins with a Royal Proclamation, and they would have been validated in the Trial of the Pyx earlier
  
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• The Tottenham High Cross

  18-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the middle of a north London road junction can be found a 400 year old stone tower that once gave its name to this part of London.This is the Tottenham High Cross, erected sometime between 1600 and 1609 by Owen Wood, a local resident and later Dean of Armagh, on the site of a wooden wayside cross first mentioned in 1409. It marks what was the centre of Tottenham Village. In fact, the area later became known as High Cross before later urban expansion saw it revert back to being part of Tottenh
  
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