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• Tickets Alert: Chatley Heath semaphore tower open weekend

  12-06-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Peeking just above the trees by the M25 on the edge of southwest London is a tall octagonal building built as part of Britain’s defence, and it will be open to the public next weekend (22nd & 23rd June 2024).
  Chatley Heath semaphore tower (c) ianVisits
  This is the Chatley Heath semaphore tower, a rare survivor of a series of towers built to send signals to/from London and the coast at a time when a Napoleonic invasion was a very real fear.
  It was a short-lived idea as the modern telegr
  
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• Mexican billionaire Slim takes 3% stake in BT

  12-06-2024 18:41
  Latin America’s richest man is latest high-profile investor in telecoms group
  
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• Gin tours with the Household Cavalry Museum

  12-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There’s going to be a couple of evening openings of the Household Cavalry Museum in central London, with gin.
  Household Cavalry Museum (c) ianVisits
  The Household Cavalry Museum is based in Horseguards Parade in central London and tells the story of, well, the Household Cavalry.
  It’s very much a military museum, full of uniforms, old weapons, metals, and memorabilia. A big attraction for many people though is that the museum is in the same building that looks after the horses, so you
  
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• Tim and Siddy return with more Secrets of the London Underground in July

  12-06-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Yesterday TV’s Secrets of the London Underground will return in July with its fourth series, peering into the depths of the tube network. Over the ten weeks of the fourth series, rail historian Tim Dunn reunites with Siddy Holloway from the London Transport Museum to unearth more secrets about the Tube’s rich history.
  (c) UKTV
  As part of her work developing the museum’s Hidden London programme of tours, which takes the public into secret parts of the London Underground, Siddy h
  
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• Cold War tunnels under Holborn approved to become a tourist attraction

  12-06-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A network of Cold War tunnels under Holborn has taken a step closer to opening up as a public venue now that the City of London has approved planning permission for the change of use.
  One of the tunnels (c) DBOX for The London Tunnels
  Built during WWII as shelters from bombs but never used by the public, the tunnels were converted into deep-level telecoms exchange during the Cold War. They became rather legendary in the subterranean world when details about them emerged.
  They were put up for sal
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Whitfield Gardens, W1

  12-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This pocket park next to Tottenham Court Road, which is more park in name and plaza in reality, is a busy home for pigeons and cycle delivery drivers waiting for their next customer. It wasn’t always such, as it’s a former graveyard which gained an unexpected extension following the diligent attention of WWII bombs.Before all that, though, this part of London developed from fields into homes fairly quickly in the second half of the 18th century and was pretty much as we recognise it
  
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