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• The London Buzz – 23rd July 2024

  23-07-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  The largest accordions specialist in England which is in Lewisham is set to close its doors permanently after 50 years of service. News Shopper
  Bromley council has confirmed plans to replace the Churchill Theatre with a ‘like for like’ replacement – allaying fears the site would lose its theatre forever. South London Press
  Clapham chemical attacker was dead within hours of the incident despite police hunt lasting week
  
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• More delays for Euston’s HS2 station – NAO report

  23-07-2024 16:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It may be several years before we know what the plans for Euson’s HS2 station will be, a report by the National Audit Office has warned.
  Euston station site Oct 2021 (c) ianVisits
  In its periodic review of HS2’s progress, the National Audit Office (NAO) has examined the current state of the railway and the previous government’s sudden cancellation of the railway north of Birmingham.
  In London, the main focus is on the impact of the decision to delay work on Euston station and s
  
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• Southwark Council wins fight to restore Victorian-era China Hall Pub

  23-07-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A historic south London pub that had been converted into flats without permission has to be restored as a pub after the owners lost an appeal against the decision.
  The China Hall (c) Southwark Council
  The late Victorian China Hall pub in Rotherhithe closed in December 2018, and in May 2021, permission was granted to add flats to the upper floors and on the side of the building, but the ground floor pub had to be retained.
  Following a tip-off, Southwark Coucil’s enforcement officers visited
  
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• The man behind the tube map: New play at the LT Museum celebrates Harry Beck

  23-07-2024 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fifty years after he died, Harry Beck, the man who designed the classic tube map, will be on stage in September, as a play about his life, his work, and his wife comes to London.For many of us, the London Underground is purely functional. But to Harry Beck, this web of geography became an obsession – a fascination with the creation of the perfect Tube map.
  How did Beck create the iconic diagrammatic map of today, and at what cost? To understand you need to meet Harry, and his wife Nora.
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• HS2: Installation of future-proofed road bridge completed

  23-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of 24 new bridges and conduits needed to span the HS2 railway line just to the north of Aylesbury has been installed, with enough space for a second railway to be built alongside it.
  The double-width bridge will be needed because the HS2 railway north of Aylesbury runs for several miles alongside the former Great Central Railway. The latter closed to passengers in the 1960s, although a single track was retained for local freight traffic.
  As part of the construction work, the old railwa
  
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• Rediscovering The Hay Wain: Constable’s radical masterpiece headlines this National Gallery exhibition

  23-07-2024 11:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the most famous paintings you’ve probably never seen in person will be the highlight of a John Constable exhibition later this year.
  Constable’s The Hay Wain was painted just over 200 years ago. While today it’s considered a classic representation of a quintessential and somewhat romantic British countryside, when first shown, it was considered quite radical, challenging a number of preconceptions about how landscapes should be represented.
  Extract from The Hay Wain
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• Day trips from London: Tonbridge Castle and Hadlow Tower

  23-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not too far outside London is the ancient town of Tonbridge, which has the remains of a very large castle, and a short bus ride from it is one of the UK’s tallest follies.
  The castle is always open, and the folly occasionally – so if you time it right, you can easily visit both in a single day.
  Tonbridge Castle
  Sitting in the centre of town are the impressive ruins of a castle that owes its origins to the Norman Conquest when Richard Fitz Gilbert was granted land in Kent to guard the
  
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