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• The Spanish Navy’s tall sailing ship will visit London

  10-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A note to clear your diaries if you like ships, as the world’s third largest tall sailing ship will visit London in July, and the public can go on board.
  (c) Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
  The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a Spanish Navy training ship that was constructed nearly 100 years ago, and at 113 metres long, is the third-largest tall ship in the world. It is also the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles in its lifetime.
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the Cosmic House in Holland Park

  10-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A slightly unassuming house in Holland Park conceals a remarkable interior — a house packed full of early Post-Modernist designs — and is now occasionally open to the public.Externally it looks like a normal sort of house for the area, but the architect Charles Jencks and family gutted most of the interior and built something that is really quite stunning. Not necessarily nice, as that’s down to individual tastes, but it is most certainly stunning.
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace

  10-05-2024 11:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there’s a chance to tour the original BBC studios inside the Ally Pally where television was born.
  BBC Studios May 2023 (c) ianVisits
  The space is pretty run down now, but still has the echoes of the time that actors and musicians would perform in the rooms and the many technicians stood off screen to control what went on.
  When it started, the BBC leased the entire East Wing of the Alexandra Palace for the new television service, with former dining rooms transformed into studio
  
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• Large light show filling Trafalgar Square tonight for the National Gallery’s 200th birthday

  10-05-2024 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you head to Trafalgar Square tonight and tomorrow evenings (10th & 11th May), you’ll see a large light show projected onto the National Gallery for its 200th anniversary.The show is part of the Gallery’s Big Birthday Weekend, and the light show is a completely free and unticketed way to celebrate the Gallery’s 200th birthday home in the heart of central London.
  Conceived by the National Gallery, produced by Nvisible Productions, and designed in collaboration with Visual
  
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