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• The London Buzz – 22nd August 2024

  22-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s been happening in London:
  The anti-ULEZ vigilante group known as the “Blader Runners” struck again, with a masked activist using a power tool to dismantle and steal a ULEZ camera in London Deadline News
  Germany’s navy says there was “no deeper message” in the choice to blast the famed Imperial March – Darth Vader’s theme song in the Star Wars films – from one of its warships as it cruised down the River Thame
  
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• Free tickets to Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland

  22-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  While accepting that most people who want to visit Hyde Park’s annual Winter Wonderland will do so in the evenings, they offer free tickets for the mornings and lunchtimes if you just fancied a wander around.
  Winter Wonderland – photo by Devon Rogers on Unsplash
  Winter Wonderland opens on 21st November 2024, and while paid tickets usually start from £5 per person, there are free tickets for early visitors on selected dates while the fair is open.
  A note – the entry ticket
  
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• BT still has a big pension problem

  22-08-2024 15:16
  (And it’s got worse)
  
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• Vestry House Museum secures permission for £4.5 million redevelopment

  22-08-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Vestry House Museum has been granted planning permission for a £4.5 million redevelopment that will transform the local history museum by adding an enhanced heritage and community offer, improved access, new creative workspaces, and a new café.
  Vestry House Museum (c) ianVisits
  Vestry House was constructed in 1730 to house the parish workhouse and was later used as a police station, an armoury, a builders’ merchant and a private home. The building opened to the public as a loc
  
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• Camden’s rich railway heritage revealed in beautifully illustrated book

  22-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of London’s most complex and richest areas of railway history is in Camden, and now, a magnificently illustrated book seeks to tell the story of the Chalk Farm railway lands.This area of London is a complex tapestry of deeply gouged railway cuttings, tunnels, and so many relics of its industrial past, many of which have been lost over the years. However, the Camden Railway Heritage Trust (CRHT) seeks to preserve and reopen long-disused parts of the area once more.
  To assist in that, th
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Brompton Cemetery’s catacombs

  22-08-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Brompton Cemetery’s annual open day is next month, and visitors will be able to tour the impressive catacombs that fill the centre of the cemetery grounds.
  Brompton Cemetery (c) ianVisits
  Brompton Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries built in the countryside after burials within the City of London were banned in the 1830s. The cemetery was designed to resemble a large open-air cathedral with a central nave running from Old Brompton Road towards a central colonnade
  
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• London’s Public Art: South of the River by Bernard Schottlander

  22-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1924 a man was born in Germany. In 1939 he fled to the UK as a refugee. In 1976 he designed a large steel sculpture for London, and on the centenary of his birth, it’s still there.Bernard Schottlander was a German-born designer and sculptor but fled to the UK in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. During the war, he worked in a factory as a welder before taking a course in sculpture at Leeds College of Art and subsequently – with the help of a bursary – at the Anglo-French art cent
  
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• The ‘altnet’ threat to BT is overdone

  22-08-2024 06:00
  Sky’s deal with CityFibre complements, rather than replaces, its existing arrangement with Openreach network
  
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