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• Royal Portraits: A century of evolution in style and technique at the King’s Gallery

  20-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A century of royal portraits have gone on display at the King’s Gallery, showing how royal portraiture has changed in both style and technique.The exhibition brings together 150 photos, some of which haven’t been seen before, from austere Edwardian family photos designed to show off the majesty of the royal family to more intimate family snaps. Many are by noted photographers of their time, and much of the exhibition is actually about the photographer than the photographed, broadly d
  
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• c2c’s oldest trains to get major refurbishement

  20-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The fleet of c2c’s oldest trains, which run between Essex and London, are to be refurbished as part of a major overhaul.
  c2c Class 357 train (c) Alstom
  The trains that need refurbishing are the Class 357 Electrostars, ordered by c2c in 1997 to replace the older slam-door trains it inherited from British Rail during the privatisation of the railways. The trains were built at Alstom’s Derby Litchurch Lane site between 1999 and 2002, and need a major overhaul to keep them in service.
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• London’s Alleys: Ham Yard, W1

  20-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This upmarket looking Soho passageway lined with posh shops and a hotel is a far cry from what it looked like just a decade ago — as one of the last remaining WWII bomb sites in central London.
  Indeed, the run-down site with the empty plot of land fenced off in otherwise busy Soho was a curious relic and people of a curious mind, almost a tourist attraction to seek out and explore.
  Now, it’s just another posh yard with expensive shops.Originally though, Ham Yard was a square courtyar
  
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