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• Strawberry Hill House to be transformed by 30 floral designers for a flower festival

  29-05-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If the Chelsea Flower Show whetted your appetite for all things floral, then you’ll want to hear that a gothic house will be filled with flowers for a whole weekend later this year.
  (c) Strawberry Hill House & Garden
  For one weekend, Strawberry Hill House in southwest London will be filled with the work of 30 floral designers, who have been given the run of the building for their displays.
  Responding to the theme of “nature unbound”, sustainable practices utilising the late
  
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• Highams station marks 150th anniversary with new heritage plaque

  29-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A commemorative plaque has been unveiled at Highams Park station to mark its 150th anniversary.
  The plaque was the idea of Network Rail’s chair, Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, who suggested it at an event to mark the actual anniversary date — on 17th November 2023. Suggested and now funded by Arriva Rail London, the plaque was unveiled on Saturday 25th May 2024, on the station’s exterior.
  Lord Hendy and Gordon Turpin unveil the plaque – Photo: John Murray of PNJ Phot
  
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• Comics across the Pond: Exploring a century of US-UK cartoonist collaboration

  29-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  One hundred thirty years ago, the first full-colour newspaper comic was published in the USA but only arrived in the UK by accident. This accident triggered the rise of comics in the UK, and now the Cartoon Museum is looking at how the USA and UK cartoonists influenced each other over the past century or so.The accidental arrival of the New York World comics was due to unsold copies of the newspaper being used as heavy ballast in container ships heading to the UK and then being sold cheaply to l
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Stratford Park, E15

  29-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This pocket park near Stratford town centre can, sort of, be considered to be part of West Ham football club’s origin story.The area was still a mix of fields being slowly surrounded by expanding housing and industrial estates when some of the land was leased to Scottish shipowner Donald Currie in September 1892. He used the land to set up a company football club for his employees working in the docks.
  Called the Castle Swifts, the football team only used the site for a year, as there was
  
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