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• The London Buzz – 9th September 2024

  09-09-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The Natural History Museum has partnered with London’s Royal Lancaster hotel on a new “pollinator-inspired” afternoon tea. Blooloop
  More than a quarter of primary school places in Westminster are empty, according to a council report. BBC News
  Parts of Lower Addiscombe Road are to have traffic and parking restrictions today and tomorrow, as Croydon once again is providing the backdrop for the shooting of a movie. Inside Croydon
  Former Chancel
  
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• Get your free pint! Young’s pubs marks 193rd birthday with a week-long giveaway

  09-09-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next week, Young’s pubs is offering a free pint to all visitors to mark their 193rd birthday. And, as part of Young’s Day, their horse and cart will be on tour to some of their pubs in Greenwich and the City of London on the birthday itself.
  (c) Young’s
  Young’s was founded in 1831 when Charles Allen Young and his partner Anthony Forthergill Bainbridge start a brewery and pub company. Later, they took over the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth and five pubs and have expanded ever
  
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• A cooler London Underground: TfL eyes more stations for its new cooling technology

  09-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Trials of a new cooling system for the London Underground stations have proven sufficiently successful that Transport for London (TfL) is already considering where it could be deployed.
  Cooling panel trial at Holborn station (c) ianVisits
  The novel cooling system was trialled on the disused platform at Holborn Station before being moved to a depot for more trials. Its main advantage is that the cooling units shouldn’t clog up with dirt in a way that causes problems for fans used in some st
  
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• Women who shaped Freud: New exhibition unveils their influences in Freud’s life and work

  09-09-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new exhibition opening next month at Sigmund Freud’s former home is taking a look at the women who featured in Freud’s work and life.
  (c) Freud Museum
  From the ‘hysterics’ – early patients whom Freud called his ‘teachers’ – to later patients, family, friends, colleagues, writers and artists, the exhibition, the first to look at their influence will reveal the women who shaped Freud’s life and hail those whose work carries the influence of F
  
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• Stolen or Misplaced? Leighton’s lost painting returns to London after 100 years

  09-09-2024 10:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A painting that went missing from a London museum in the early 20th century is returning to London to be displayed for the first time in over a century.
  Leighton Museum is the former home of the important Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton and his painting of the Bay of Cádiz disappeared from the museum sometime between 1900 and 1926. But now, it’s returning to the house where he lived and to the museum where it was intended to be displayed.
  Bay of Cadiz, Moonlight – cir
  
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• London’s Alleys: Green Dale, SE5

  09-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a long sloping passage in Denmark Hill that existed before the housing around it and was originally called Green Lane. Originally, it linked two large houses at the northern end, Hill Lodge and the Pelican House girl’s college, to Dulwich via Henry Bessemer’s Observatory.Henry Bessemer was an English inventor whose steel-making process became the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. He owned a home in Denmark Hill, where he continued inventing
  
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