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• The London Buzz – 8th August 2024

  08-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  A performance at Shakespeare’s Globe in Southwark was abruptly halted and the audience evacuated after a rogue firework, believed to be from a football celebration, fell into the venue, narrowly missing spectators. Standard
  The Met Police praised Londoners for their community spirit after a major policing operation, involving over 1,000 officers, prevented anticipated far-right violence, with only minor incidents and 15 arrests m
  
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• LT Museum introducing BSL for its London Underground tours

  08-08-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Following some trials, the London Transport Museum has started offering British Sign Language interpretation on its tours of the disused parts of the London Underground.
  Baker Street tour (c) ianVisits
  The tours take in the hidden parts of the London Underground stations and former WWII shelters showing off spaces not usually seen by the public. In order to improve access to the sites, the museum has been testing adding BSL interpretation to the tours, and these are now available for people to b
  
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• Four new public artworks appear at Paddington

  08-08-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Four new works of public art have appeared around Paddington Station, although only two of them are particularly obvious when you see them.
  The biggest, a spiral of coloured metal mesh, hangs above the future entrance to the Bakerloo line at Paddington Square called Somethinging and is by Pae White. Somethinging, made across a span of two years is made up of X 1232 aluminium folded panels, X 8040 rivets and includes 20,000 folds of 11 colours.We’re told that Ugo Rondinone’s 5-metre o
  
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• BT Tower opens to public for London Open House – Ballot for free tickets starts today

  08-08-2024 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The BT Tower will be open to the public for this year’s London Open House Festival, and the ballot for free tickets opens today.Although the vast majority of buildings open for next month’s Open House Festival will be open for people to turn up on the day and walk in, some will need pre-booking, and some are so popular that tickets are being allocated by ballot to ensure everyone has an equal chance of winning tickets.The first four buildings to go into the ballot are:BT Tower &ndash
  
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• Urgent repairs to the Union Chapel get started

  08-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A major restoration project has just started at the Union Chapel, which will carry out essential repairs to the neighbouring Sunday School building, which had fallen into disrepair.
  Without urgent intervention, it would have faced further dilapidation.
  Sunday school exterior (c) Union Chapel
  Union Chapel’s Sunday School sits alongside the well-known Grade I listed Gothic Revival chapel designed by James Cubitt and is one of only a few remaining Akron plan halls. It was originally built in
  
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• TfL is selling off its surplus engineering locomotives

  08-08-2024 11:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve ever fancied owning an ex-London Underground locomotive, then you’re in luck, as quite a few of them are coming up for sale at an auction.
  They’re not the usual passenger trains you see on the tube lines though, but a selection of yellow engineering locomotivies used to move equipment around the network during engineering works.
  Ex-TfL Schoma locomotive (c) Wilsons Auctions
  Being sold by Wilsons Auctions on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), they have 14 Schoma loc
  
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• Inside the Blackheath railway tunnel: Battling water damage and the weather

  08-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When you’re working half a mile inside a railway tunnel under south London, how windy it is on the surface shouldn’t affect you – but as they’ve found in Blackheath, it can.
  Blackheath Tunnel (c) Network Rail
  The Blackheath railway tunnel, which this year marks its 175th anniversary, is currently closed for repairs due to damage from water ingress, and it has proven to be a challenging site to work in.
  But first, why is there a tunnel here at all?
  If you look at a modern
  
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