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• The London Buzz – 25th July 2024

  25-07-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  Is this a shark swimming in the River Thames? BBC News
  A campaign has been launched to save Boxpark’s original site in London’s Shoreditch after a planning requirement forced it to announce that it would close this summer. Restaurant Online
  Alison Brooks Architects creates copper-clad London home with “folding geometry” Dezeen
  Watford Borough Council is eyeing a major town centre revamp geared towards being more
  
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• Tickets Alert: Sunset tickets for Horizon 22 viewing gallery

  25-07-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Every Friday through August, there will be champagne Lates at London’s highest viewing gallery, where you can take in the sunset over the city. The Horizon 22 viewing gallery usually closes by 6pm, but the lates will open an hour later from 7pm to 10pm.
  The view from Horizon 22 (c) ianVisits
  However, with a glass of champagne included, unlike the daytime visits, which are free, the Horizon Lates costs £29.50 per person.
  Ticketed entry to the Horizon Lates are at 7pm, 7:30pm and 8pm,
  
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• Ride the 1938 heritage tube train to Heathrow Airport

  25-07-2024 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there will be another chance to take a trip on a 1938 era heritage tube train out to Heathrow and back again.
  (c) ianVisits
  The trips will run on the weekend of 10th and 11th August, and will run the art-deco tube train from Northfields station on the Piccadilly line in west London out to Heathrow, where it will loop via Terminal 4 and Terminals 2&3 before returning to Northfields.
  Saturday 10 August:10:55am
  12:40pm
  2:50pm
  4:10pmSunday 11 August:11:05am
  12:45pm
  3:05pm
  4:45pmA tip
  
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• Southgate tube station’s historic clock has been restored

  25-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An art deco wall clock, part of Southgate tube station‘s iconic design, has been restored to its original 1930s appearance.
  (c) Heritage of London Trust
  The art-deco style clock was installed opposite the Grade II* listed Southgate Tube Station in 1932-1933, as part of Charles Holden’s design of Station Parade in Southgate. The architect designed the wall clock as a concrete roundel with brass gilded ring plates and 12 gold button studs marking the hour.
  The station’s architect
  
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• A life size Formula One racing car made from LEGO bricks is in London tomorrow

  25-07-2024 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you pop along to the LEGO store in Leicester Square on Fri or Sat, you can see a life-size Formula One racing car, entirely made from LEGO bricks.
  Life-Sized LEGO McLaren MP4/4 (c) LEGO
  It might look slightly different to the ones you see on the race track today, as the model is based on the McLaren MP4/4 racecar, made famous by Ayrton Senna.
  The model is made of 400,000 pieces of LEGO and took a total of 820 hours to design and build.
  The racing car model will be at the LEGO Leicester Store
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: At the sign of the Golden Bottle, EC4

  25-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A somewhat shabby sunken garden on the corner of Cheapside and St Pauls in the City of London has been radically redesigned. The tired old hedges have been removed, and space has been opened up with new bedding plants and stone benches, but there’s more to this redesign than seems at first glance.As a small plot of green on the corner of a busy road junction, it’s always felt a bit of an afterthought, so much so that it doesn’t have an official name — just the nickname of
  
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