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Now you can wear London Underground moquette to the beach – with these swimming trunks

25-06-2024 17:15 via ianvisits.co.uk

There’s so much London Transport moquette clothing around that it’s a bit of a joke that the only thing left is the underwear.
Until now.
Well, it’s swimwear, but the same part of the body.
(c) Budgy Smuggler
The Australian swimwear brand Budgy Smuggler has partnered with Transport for London (TfL) for a new London Underground-themed collection in a deal facilitated by TfL’s global licensing agency IMG.
The collection of swim trunks feature signature patterns from the Nor

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Londoners advised to check before they travel ahead of London Trams strikes

25-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Over the next couple of weeks, there will be a rolling series of strikes on the Trams, which will affect the service across south London.
Tram wildlife corridor (c) TfL
From Sunday 30th June until Monday 8th July and also Thursday 11th July until Monday 15th July, Unite the Union members who maintain the trams and infrastructure are planning to strike impacting the London Trams network.
If the action goes ahead, the whole London Trams network is expected to experience reduced and disrupted servi

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New Exhibition sheds light on Henry VIII’s wives, starting with the King himself

25-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

An exhibition about six women opens with a portrait of a man, reminding us of the overbearing thread linking the women — King Henry VIII and his wives.
The wives, critical to the story of the King and the reformation in England, are often relegated to bit parts in the narrative, but without them, England’s fortunes would have been very different. There might not have been a break with Rome, Spanish Armarda, or union with Scotland.
To try to rebalance the scales a bit, the National Po

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Southeastern ditches paper forms to improve Lost Property return rates

25-06-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Southeastern has announced that replacing paper forms with QR codes has nearly doubled the amount of Lost Property left on their trains that are successfully returned to its owners.
Lost property office at Canon Street station (c) Southeastern
With more than 1,700 train services daily, Southeastern says it receives around 20,000 items of lost property a year, from bags and coats to more unusual items, including a prosthetic leg and a guitar.
Items found on a train or at a station used to be reco

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A visit to St Giles without Cripplegate in the Barbican

25-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Surrounded by the brutalist Barbican estate is a medieval church, one of the few to survive the Great Fire of London and an unexpected link with Tower Bridge.There’s likely been a church on this spot since Saxon times, and was rebuilt in the Norman style shortly after the conquest, but the current church that you can see was built in the 1390s. The tower is younger though, as it was added in 1682, and although the core of the church is around 630 years old, it’s seen a lot of changes

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