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• The Necropolis Railway station is up for sale

  03-06-2024 16:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you have very deep pockets and fancy living in a railway station for the dead, then the Necropolis Station in Waterloo is currently up for sale.
  (c) Dexters
  The railway station building, around the back of Waterloo station, was built to cater to that very Victorian obsession – the dead. As London’s graveyards overflowed and cemeteries were built on the outskirts of London, the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company was granted permission to build a huge cemetery in Wokin
  
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• Parliament’s dining room open to the public during the General Election

  03-06-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The election gives us a rare chance to use Parliament’s private facilities and dine in the House of Lords. While Parliament has been emptied of elected politicians, the Peers also pack up their bags and go home, leaving their dining room available for the electorate to use.
  Peers Dining Room (c) Parliament
  The House of Lords says that Peers’ Dining Room will be open Monday to Friday for lunch from Monday 10th June through to Wednesay 3rd July inclusive.
  A three-course lunch menu is p
  
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• Dennis Severs’ House is already selling Christmas tickets

  03-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  It may seem absurdly early, but tickets to visit the Christmas makeover at Dennis Severs’ House are already on sale — because they keep selling out.Just around the corner from Spitalfields market in east London, Dennis Severs’ House is set out as a Georgian house where the family have just stepped outside for a moment. You are invited into their home to walk around while they’re out. It’s not a museum with lots of precious objects but an experience.
  You are exhorted
  
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• National Portrait Gallery is now offering early hours tours

  03-06-2024 12:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The National Portrait Gallery has started offering new tours of the art collection, aimed at people who want a quieter visit before the crowds arrive. The new early-access tours will focus on the Gallery’s most popular portraits in spaces that are often busy during regular gallery opening hours.The 45-minute tours start at 10 am, giving you half an hour in the empty gallery before it opens to the public at 10:30 am.
  The Before the Crowds tours will take place on Fridays, Saturdays and Sund
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cecil Court, WC2

  03-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is one of London’s more famous passages, often nicknamed Booksellers’ Row, thanks to the large number of bookshops that line both sides of the alley.Although the alley route is old, and the buildings look old, in fact, most of what you see here is late Victorian, as the entire site was rebuilt in the 1880s. Back to the 1680s first though, and the area was lined with houses and back gardens, but the alley seems to appear later, as it’s not in a contemporary map but does app
  
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