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• Wimbledon 2025 tennis tickets ballot has opened

  02-09-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The public ballot for tickets to attend Wimbledon 2025 has opened, so you can apply for tickets to attend next year’s tennis championships.
  (c) ianVisits
  Although the ballot has now opened, you have until the end of Monday 16th September to apply, and there is no advantage to applying early. A person applying in a week’s time has the same chance of being offered tickets as someone applying today.
  To apply, you need to have an account on the myWIMBLEDON website to enter the ballot, bu
  
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• See the restored silent-movie era Sherlock Holmes movies on a big screen

  02-09-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As part of the BFI London Film Festival next month, there will be a world premiere of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases – three recently restored silent movies starring Eille Norwood, Conan Doyle’s favourite screen Sherlock.
  Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes (c) BFI National Archive
  The iconic screen Holmes of the silent era, Eille Norwood still holds the record for appearing in more Sherlock Holmes films than any other actor connected to the role on the big screen.
  He portrayed th
  
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• Tickets Alert: Spend Halloween in London’s gothic castle

  02-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not far from Twickenham in southwest London is Horace Walpole’s gothic castle at Strawberry Hill, which will be open for candlelit tours this Halloween.
  (c) Strawberry Hill House & Garden
  Throughout Halloween week, you can experience the House like never before. As candles flicker in rooms with closed shutters, an eerie gloom pervades this extraordinary place. It will be an atmosphere Walpole himself would have known and relished. As you wander from room to room, it will seem as if the
  
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