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• The Vinyl Factory’s ‘Reverb’ exhibition: A dazzling fusion of light, sound, and art

  22-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An industrial basement space in central London is thumping and glowing, having been filled with an exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound.
  It also exposes you to the strangest response to Kraftwerk’s music you will ever see.Based on music released by the independent music and arts group The Vinyl Factory, the exhibition brings together musicians and artists to provide what can best be described as an “experience.”
  Filling the basement is a slightly disorienting
  
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• Two weeks to visit Colindale tube station before rebuilding work starts

  22-05-2024 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  You have just two weeks to visit the old Colindale tube station on the Northern line before it closes to be demolished and replaced with a new station.
  Planned new station entrance (c) TfL
  Candidly, it’d be difficult to say the 1960s-era building is particularly notable, but still, after sixty years of service, it will finally go to the great builder’s yards in the sky. That means you have a short time to see it in its current state before all those memories are lost.
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• Historic lifeboat returns to London as RNLI marks its 200th anniversary

  22-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Two plaques celebrating the RNLI’s 200th anniversary and the lifeboats and people who use them were unveiled in London this week, along with a visit by a historic lifeboat.In the City of London, a new plaque has been placed on Furniture Makers’ Hall, which was where the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) had its first headquarters when it was founded in 1824.
  Although the RNLI is known for its lifesaving work around the coasts of the UK and Ireland, it has strong connections
  
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• Visit the atmospheric Pope’s Grotto

  22-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  In the 1720s, the poet Alexander Pope dug a series of tunnels underneath his house in Twickenham — and 300 years later, they’re open to the public to explore.
  This is Pope’s Grotto.Alexander Pope bought a villa next to the Thames in Twickenham in 1719, and at some point shortly afterwards decided to dig a grotto underneath the house. Atmospheric grottos were a popular folly for the rich to build, but while most are little more than small shallow spaces, Pope dug a long tunnel a
  
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