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• Back to the Silverlink: London Overground’s past in a new photo exhibition

  21-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Photos of London’s railways and train passengers are filling a camera shop at the moment, offering a look back at pre-Overground services. The link between the photos is that they’re all on stations that were once part of the unlamented Silverlink railway.They’ve all been taken by London-based photographer Simon Wheatley, who has become known for his raw and intimate photographic portrayal of the city and its communities. The photos almost look as if they were taken in dockland
  
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• Tickets Alert: Architecture tours of Haringey’s grade II listed Civic Centre

  21-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Next month, you can take an architect-led tour of Haringey’s Civic Centre, a Grade II-listed modern building designed in 1938 but thanks to WWII, wasn’t built until 1958.
  (c) Haringey Council / Hawkins Brown Architects
  The Civic Centre has been home to many of Haringey’s important historical moments. In 1985 Bernie Grant was elected leader, becoming the first-ever black leader of a local authority in Europe. It is also a favourite film and TV set location featuring in season 3
  
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• TfL gets debt ratings upgrade, but need for long-term government support highlighted

  21-05-2024 12:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London’s finances have been given a vote of confidence after one of the debt ratings agencies upgraded the quality of TfL debt.
  When TfL borrows money by issuing debt, it is given a quality score by the ratings agencies, and that affects how much TfL has to pay in interest payments. The better the quality score, the lower the cost of servicing the debt.
  The ratings agencies periodically report on company debts. Now Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has lifted TfL’s
  
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• London’s largest FREE flower show has opened in Chelsea

  21-05-2024 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This week, thousands of people will have paid eye-watering amounts to visit the Chelsea Flower Show, and yet there’s a large free flower show that anyone can enjoy.
  And it’s also in Chelsea.This is the duel Chelsea in Bloom and Belgravia in Bloom, and this year, for the first time since 1979, a local church will be open, having filled the church with flowers and vestments.
  So, three events in one.
  A tip: visit before Saturday lunchtime if you want to attend all three official events,
  
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• There’s a model railway at Hounslow West tube station

  21-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Hounslow West tube station’s ticket hall recently gained a large model railway, sitting inside the old passimeter box where station staff used to check tickets.It was installed last year to mark the double whammy of the 160th anniversary of the London Underground and the 90th anniversary of the rebuilding of Hounslow West tube station.
  Drawing from 1930s art deco posters, designer Dan Maier created a looped background for two trains to run around. The two trains, an early steam train and a
  
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