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LT Museum selling circular tube maps

17-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

You may remember the circular tube maps that popped up around parts of the London Underground earlier this year. Admittedly, there were mixed reactions from people who thought it was confusing for passengers to those who rather liked the design, if not necessarily the practicality of the map for the travellers.
Now you can buy the map for your home.The LT museum is selling poster-sized prints of the map design, minus the corporate branding from the original advertiser.
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Evening curator tour and talk at Kew Palace

17-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Inside Kew Gardens is Kew Palace, which will be open late for special tours and talks for a few evenings this summer.
It’s not the cheapest event, I should warn, but it’s pretty exclusive.
Kew Palace – Photo by Geoff Oliver on Unsplash
On arrival, guests will be escorted to the palace and free to explore the rooms used by Queen Charlotte and her family during their time there. This provides an exclusive opportunity to view the space once it has closed to the public for the day.

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More Night Tube trains proposed by the Mayor of London

17-06-2024 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

There could be more frequent trains on the Night Tube coming soon, according to the Mayor of London.
Night Tube map 2024 (c) TfL
At present, the Night Tube offers between 3 and 6 services per hour in each direction, and the Mayor has said that he wants the frequency of services to be increased. The increase, if it goes ahead, would be focused on the peak hours, which for the Night Tube are between midnight and 1:30am, and then phased back to the current level of service in the small hours until

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London’s Alleys: Holly Walk, EN11

17-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a long footpath in Broxbourne (yes, just outside London) that for once lives up to its name – there’s a lot of holly here.
It starts showing up on maps from the mid-1850s as a footpath through still largely undeveloped fields north of Broxbourne. However, with the arrival of the railway nearby, it wasn’t too long before the farms were sold for houses.
OS Map 1873
By 1895, the bottom few hundred yards of the footpath had vanished as it was widened into St Catherine&rsquo

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