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• Sotheby’s earnings plunge as art market catches a chill

  30-08-2024 22:00
  Arch-rival Christie’s also suffering from slowdown in auctions
  
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• The London Buzz – 30th August 2024

  30-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s been happening in London:
  The billion-pound King’s Cross redevelopment will be left “sad and broken” if the Town Hall gives the green light to a new shopping pavilion aimed at chain stores, according to world-renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley. Camden New Journal
  Islington Council faces a deficit ‘in excess of’ £1.8bn in its housing revenue account over the next three decades and blames government-imposed rental caps on
  
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• An unusual London Overground trip is possible next weekend

  30-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Due to engineering works on the London Overground next weekend, there’s a rare chance to travel over a bit of railway that doesn’t usually see passengers.
  Departure board at Camden Road showing the “impossible” stations to call at – Dec 2022
  The main engineering work is taking place on the bridge over the Thames near Kew, affecting both the Overground and District lines.
  However, part of the Overground between Willesden Junction and Stratford via West Hampstead will
  
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• V&A Museum completes archive move from west to east London

  30-08-2024 13:02 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the past five years, V&A Museum’s new east London storehouse has been slowly filling up with over 600,000 objects from the museum’s archive ahead of its opening next year.
  The collection used to be housed in the ornate Blythe House in West Kensington, but in 2015, the Government announced it would provide £150 million for new storage and then sell off Blythe House.
  The replacement warehouse in Olympic Park will also be routinely open to the public to visit.
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• Battersea Park’s historic Victorian waterfall may flow again after decades of silence

  30-08-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A Victorian water cascade inside Battersea Park that has been dry since the 1980s could be about to be switched on again.
  1905 colourised postcard based on 1899 b&w photograph
  The water cascade was added next to the boating lake in 1865 just after the park had been completed, and was novel for using a newly invented form of artificial rock that was so convincing that even geologists were known to be fooled by it.
  This Pulhamite Rock was invented by the landscape gardener and terracotta manuf
  
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• Enigma cipher machine goes on display in London

  30-08-2024 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A rare working Enigma machine, only recently discovered in a Norwegian barn, will be on display in London next week before being sold at auction.
  Heimsoeth und Rinke three rotor Enigma 1 cypher machine (c) Bonhams
  The Enigma machine is a rare example of a Heimsoeth und Rinke three-rotor Enigma 1 cipher machine built around 1937 and is thought to have been left in a Norwegian barn at the end of WWII, where it remained undiscovered until last year.
  After the war, the farmer served as a member of t
  
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