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• Tickets Alert: Architecture tours of Heals department store

  02-05-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tottenham Court Road’s Heal’s department store is notable for the early 20th-century building it occupies, for being London’s oldest furniture retailer, and for its impressive architecture.
  (c) Heal’s
  As part of the London Festival of Architecture, tours will be offered of the building, once home to their furniture workshops and mattress factory. The site has evolved and been reimagined over time and has many stories to tell. On the tour,, you will experience and better u
  
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• From Tudor Trumpets to Modern Beats: A journey through Black British music history

  02-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Libraries are places of quiet, reflective study, but not the British Library at the moment, which thumps to the sound of music in an exhibition that spans 500 years of black music in the UK.It starts back in Tudor times, but in fact, most of the exhibition is modern, covering the past century or so, as that’s where the main story lies.
  Back to the olden times, and the earliest record of a musician of African descent in Britain is John Blanke, a trumpeter in King Henry VII and VIII’s
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Talbot Square, W2

  02-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a long narrow pocket park next to Paddington Station that may tend to dampness, as it was built on top of an old water reservoir.Long before Paddington Station arrived and this was still on the edges of London, the Grand Junction Canal opened a canal into the area in 1801 to bring goods into the city with a large basin nearby for cargo wharfs. In 1811, the Grand Junction Waterworks Company was created to exploit a clause in the 1798 Act that allowed canals to be built and used as a suppl
  
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