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• Tickets Alert: Harwell Campus science open day

  19-04-2024 16:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is outside London, but for the first time in eight years, the large Harwell science campus near Didcot will have a free open day for the public to wander around and see what happens here.
  (c) Diamond Light Source
  Part of the campus has regular open days, as it is the home of the UK’s national synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, but the rest of the buildings are usually closed.
  On Saturday 29th June 2024, they will open their doors to everyone.
  The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, RAL Spac
  
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• Cody Dock secures funding to restore Thames Ironworks boat

  19-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  East London’s Cody Dock has been awarded nearly £1.7 million to restore a historic vessel made by Thames Ironworks and construct a new heritage centre for Newham.
  Proposed heritage centre (c) Cody Dock
  The aim of the Lighting Up The Lea project will see them able to preserve the Frederick Kitchen, one of the last boats to be produced at the mighty Thames Ironworks, whose closure in 1912 brought on the demise of shipbuilding in London. Once restored to its former glory, this historic
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of a remarkable Wandsworth home resume next month

  19-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unremarkable looking house on a busy Wandsworth road conceals a quite remarkable interior, and following some restoration works, limited tours will resume
  Exterior of 575 Wandsworth Road (c) ianVisits
  This is the simply named 575 Wandsworth Road, an ordinary terraced house which was bought in 1981 by a Kenyan born civil servant, and it’s what he did inside that makes it a marvel to visit.
  When Khadambi Asalache moved in, to deal with damp problems in the basement, he decided to clad the
  
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