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Madame Tussauds new Doctor Who inspired display includes Ncuti Gatwa

24-07-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Madame Tussauds has opened a new Whoniverse-inspired set has opened, including the latest actor to play the time traveller, Ncuti Gatwa.
(c) Madame Tussauds
Ncuti Gatwa began working with Madame Tussauds London’s artists in July 2023, attending a sitting and collaborating on the figure’s pose and expression. In May this year, Gatwa met with the team again to give his final seal of approval.
Known for striking costume changes throughout the season, the Fifteenth Doctor’s figure

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The Museum of London has changed its name to the London Museum

24-07-2024 16:05 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Museum of London has swapped the words around and has been renamed the London Museum as part of plans to reopen in their new Smithfield site late next year.
They also have a pigeon as the museum logo.
(c) London Museum
In a way, it’s a return to old times, as the Museum of London was created in 1976 from the merger of the City of London’s Guildhall Museum and the London Museum, which itself was created in April 1912 by King George V, originally inside Kensington Palace while it l

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Derelict art-deco cinema to be restored as part of residential development

24-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A derelict Art-deco cinema in north London is about to be restored as part of a redevelopment that will retain the 1930s frontage while adding residential flats above.
The Regal Cinema opened in 1911 as the Highams Park Electric Theatre. It was partially rebuilt in an art-deco style in 1935 and continued (with a short break) as a cinema until 1971. Unusually, it was independently owned and not part of the big-name cinema chains.
It was then split into a bingo hall and a snooker hall. Various pla

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New TfL cycle hire docking station added in Camden

24-07-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Santander cycle hire scheme has expanded slightly with a new docking station being added in Camden. The new docking station is on Camley Street, just to the north of St Pancras Gardens, and sits in a quadrant of Camden where there are fairly few TfL cycle hire docking stations.
New docking station highlighted on TfL cycle hire map
The docking station being installed here was prompted by the large housing development constructed nearby as a condition of the planning approval required the deve

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A Victorian Gem: Wander through the extravagant Sambourne House Museum

24-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A Kensington residential side street contains a house so amazingly Victorian that a TV costume drama would think it’s a bit over the top. It’s also open to the public to visit.This is 18 Stafford Terrace, formerly home to the Punch magazine’s illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne, from a time when being a cartoonist for a magazine paid well enough to buy a decent middle-class house.
Linley Sambourne died in 1910, and fortunately, their son retained the interior untouched. When he

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