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• TfL submits planning application for Pontoon Dock DLR station upgrade

  27-06-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Pontoon Dock DLR station could get a major upgrade adding new escalators and facilities to cope with the growing local population. Preliminary plans were shown off earlier this year and fed into a public consultation.
  Based on the consultation results, Transport for London (TfL) has filed a formal planning application with Newham Council requesting permission to upgrade the railway station.
  The station today (c) ianVisits
  The planned upgrade (c) Weston Williamson+Partners
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• The Abominable Dr. Phibes rises in Central London

  27-06-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fans of a darkly camp comedy horror movie starring Vincent Price will be delighted to learn there’s a small exhibition about the film.
  The small exhibition is mainly about Dr Phibes’ silent assistant, Vulnavia, played by the former model-turned-actress Virginia North. She only had a short film career, including a James Bond movie, and her major supporting role in the first of the two Dr. Phibes movies.Her role as the glamourous assistant to the vileDr. Phibes required a goodly wardro
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Princess Alice Garden, EC1

  27-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a very well-hidden garden in Smithfield that I have walked past many times without noticing it was there, even though it’s really obvious in hindsight as it’s easy to see from the outside.It sits just inside the boundary of Barts Hospital, nestled between the boundary and St Bartholomew the Less church, and while some the space may have been a former graveyard for the church, most of it wasn’t. While today, the boundary around the hospital in this part is marked by a fi
  
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