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Temporary reprieve for HS2’s Euston station

29-07-2024 17:20 via ianvisits.co.uk

After being trailed heavily over the weekend that HS2’s station at Euston station might be delayed again or even cancelled — it seems to have been given a second life.
The previously proposed Euston station (c) HS2
In a statement by the Chancellor of the Excqueuer on the economic situation, which was expected to cut Euston station as part of a wider slew of cost-cutting announcements, no mention was made about HS2.
It is not that HS2 was committed to get to Euston, just that there wa

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New art at Heathrow Terminal 4’s tube station celebrates refugees through food and nature

29-07-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The tube station at Heathrow’s Terminal 4 has a new artwork by the British artist and photographer, Joy Gregory filling the space, with plant based art that also evokes memories of home and travel. The space, a series of former advertising boards, has been used as an art space instead for some years, and Gregory is the latest artist to be allowed to show their work here.
(c) Thierry Bal
Called A Taste of Home, the artwork expands on Gregory’s interest in themes of migration, memory a

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Saucy smut showcase: Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland meet in Clapham

29-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A former church hall in Clapham is currently filled with bums, tits and willies, as two of the 20th-century’s best-known artists of saucy smut are displayed together to compare and contrast their aligned but differing styles.
This is where Beryl Cook’s saucy postcard paintings meet the homoerotic leather and jeans typified by Tom of Finland.That’s to simplify the two artists considerably as both, in their own ways, pushed against the boundaries of prudish society, whether it wa

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Victoria line crowned hottest Tube line in 2023, surpassing Central line

29-07-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

It’s not surprising to anyone who travels on it, but the Victoria line was officially the hottest London Underground line last year.
Hot as in heat that is.
According to the latest figures from the London Datastore, the Victoria line average evening peak hour temperature in 2023 was 28.27°C — topping even the notoriously hot Central line’s 2023 average of 26.78°C.
Based on the London Datastore
The averages mask a lot of variation, with cooler winter months offsetting t

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London’s Alleys: Falkland Place, NW5

29-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a small back passage hidden behind the shops in busy Kentish Town and offers a well-hidden patch of greenery in the area.The alley seemed to have arrived with the property developments that sprung up along the nearby railway which opened in 1868. Within just a few years, the whole area had been turned from fields into houses, and a passageway, originally called Assembly Row, had been built.
OS Map 1871
However, the alley was to undergo a rapid change, as just a decade later, the northwes

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