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• Half price entry to top London venues for Londoners

  07-05-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A number of London venues are offering half-price tickets to residents for the next few weeks, so now is your chance to visit those touristy venues you’ve never really got around to.Living in London can mean there are so many things to do all the time that the permanent venues can feel like they’re something that can be visited another day. Before long, you’ve lived in London for a decade and still haven’t been to them.
  Now, they’re half-price, so if you’re in
  
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• Tickets Alert: See inside the Bishopsgate Goodsyard arches

  07-05-2024 16:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ahead of their redevelopment, there will be a chance to visit the empty arches underneath Spitalfields’s Bishopsgate Goodsyard.
  Brathwaite Arches (c) Ballymore and Hammerson
  Proposals to redevelop the old goods yard after it was destroyed in a massive blaze in 1964 have been stalled for decades over what to do with the site that stretches across the borough boundary between Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
  The redevelopment plans, which have been controversial at times, will see much of the site
  
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• Nick Waplington’s photography explores the private lives of 1980s Britain

  07-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you want a glimpse of late 1980s Britain, visit an art gallery in Mayfair, where huge photographs of ordinary households are on display.Taken by Nick Waplington, who released a book of photos taken around Nottingham in the late 1980s offering a candid look at the lives of the people of the time.
  It’s an uneasy exhibition, at once fascinating as if visiting an exhibition of the past is to learn about how things were done there, but at the same time awkward as you’re peering into th
  
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• Uncovering Michelangelo at the British Museum: From bums and willies to spiritual redemption

  07-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A man who was rather fond of drawing men’s bums and willies has filled a room in the British Museum with drawings of bums and crosses. Michelangelo’s willies were largely covered over in later years by scandalised puritans within the Catholic church.
  The museum has put on a mixed exhibition that looks at the last few decades of Michelangelo’s work, ranging from his close friendship with a nobleman, described as a “friend”, his spiritual friendship with a lady, archi
  
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• Gatwick Express 40th anniversary – From British Rail to Supertrain

  07-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Later this week marks the 40th anniversary of the official opening of the Gatwick Express, but not the 40th anniversary of when it carried its first passengers – that’s next week.
  That’s because although the official launch, with the dignitaries and speeches, took place on Thursday 10th May 1984, the first passengers couldn’t catch their first trains until Monday 14th May 1984. So while there are two “first days”, Gatwick Express correctly considers the day it
  
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