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The London Buzz – 15th August 2024

15-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
Nearly 1,500 Londoners were unable to vote in the recent mayoral and London Assembly elections because they lacked valid photo ID and did not return later to cast their vote, highlighting concerns about the impact of the voter ID requirement on turnout. OnLondon
The Met police are investigating after a statue of Mary Seacole was vandalised in what is thought to be a racially motivated attack. The Voice
Transport for London aims to cons

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Step back in time: Two free Victorian London exhibitions open in the city

15-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

There are two free exhibitions in the City of London at the moment both taking a look back at Victorian London.
The first is outside St Paul’s Cathedral and is a photographic exhibition of London from 1839 onwards. This exhibition delves into the London Archive’s collections to present some of most striking images of the era; from one of the first known photographs of London to the opening of Blackwall Tunnel at the end of the century, taking in the Crystal Palace and the first Tube

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Tickets Alert: Tours of 10 Downing Street

15-08-2024 14:15 via ianvisits.co.uk

A ballot has opened today for tickets go to on a tour of 10 Downing Street – the historic residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, who is slightly better known as The Prime Minister.
10 Downing Street (c) Crown Copyright 2013, Photographer: Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC
Although not confirmed, based on my own previous visit many years ago, the tour is likely to include the main state rooms on the first floor, and if it’s not in use, maybe the Cabinet Room as well. There should be tim

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Historic Limehouse Town Hall offers a new way to check bus arrival times

15-08-2024 13:05 via ianvisits.co.uk

A bus stop that lost its countdown bus times display a few years ago has a replacement, but not how you might expect.The bus stop is outside the old Limehouse Town Hall, and a replacement bus shelter was installed in mid-2022.
Now, as it happens, the 145-year-old town hall, which spent very little of its life as an actual Town Hall, fell into disrepair until it was taken over by the Limehouse Town Hall Consortium Trust in 2004 and restored.
It opened as a community centre in April 2012.
Now, by

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London’s Pocket Parks: Bonnington Square Pleasure Garden, SW8

15-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This pocket park near the Oval has a most unusual history involving railways, squats, protests and genteel accommodation.The park sits on the corner of a block of houses laid out in the 1870s on land that was part of the Hawbey Estate, almost as a roundabout filled with houses, and was originally intended to be housing for railway workers.
OS Map 1897 – pocket park highlighted in red.
However, many railway workers preferred a pension and to pay for their own homes, so the railway cottages

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