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• Tickets Alert: Croydon Airport open day

  18-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The remains of London’s original international airport can be found in Croydon, and the old control tower and entrance hall are open once a month.
  Croydon Airport Visitor Centre (c) ianVisits
  Croydon Airport was originally two World War 1 airfields separated by a main road. At the end of the war, they were combined to form a civilian airport. The new Croydon Aerodrome opened on 29 March 1920.
  While the airport had many famous firsts, probably the one that may sound familiar to most people
  
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• Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Beyond Fashion’: A journey through the blurred lines of art and advertising

  18-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve ever seen adverts for fashion brands and wanted to know more about the photography behind the advert, then you’ll be pleased to know that several rooms in the Saatchi Gallery are currently filled with the original photos.This exhibition seeks to demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines into something more arty and often, frankly, utterly baffling.
  I tend to struggle with fashion photography as a sales tool, as so much of it
  
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• Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from a railway bridge

  18-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you head to Barnes railway bridge in southwest London at the moment, you’ll see a bale of straw hanging from the middle arch — because an ancient law requires it.The rule requires a bale of straw to be hung from a bridge as a warning to mariners whenever the height between the river and the bridge’s arches is reduced, as it is at Barnes at the moment. According to the Port of London Thames Byelaws, Clause 36.2, a bale of straw has to be placed under London bridges “whe
  
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