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• The London Buzz – 19th September 2024

  19-09-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Bromley Council is “delighted” that Trafalgar Theatres is taking over the management of its local theatre, while on the same day, Hillingdon Council says that it is “very concerned” that Trafalgar Theatres is pulling out of its local theatre
  Regeneration projects in London are knocking down council estates and not replacing them with enough genuinely affordable homes – and the gentrification is costing low-income Londoners £
  
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• Design Museum’s Tomorrow’s Wardrobe exhibition explores eco-friendly fashion

  19-09-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition looking at how clothing can be manufactured in a less environmentally damaging way has opened at the Design Museum. It is very worthy, but it left me wondering how realistic the ideas were in practice.
  The exhibition, broken into four zones around the museum’s second-floor walkway, outlines the many problems with mass-producing fashion and suggests ideas to reduce their impact.The exhibition presents many ideas, ranging from restoring lost local plants that can be turned into
  
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• Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland offering a free Accessible morning

  19-09-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland is usually very noisy and full of flashing lights, but they will have an accessible morning in November for people who struggle with such things.
  Winter Wonderland – photo by Devon Rogers on Unsplash
  They will also be operating at a significantly reduced capacity, ensuring it is accessible for those with physical and sensory sensitivities and people who don’t like large crowds.
  There will also be a free 1pm performance of Zippos Christmas Circus, w
  
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• Grayson Perry, Caravaggio, and Winston Churchill star in upcoming Wallace Collection exhibitions

  19-09-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Winston Churchill, Caravaggio and Grayson Perry are the three headline names who will be the subject of exhibitions at the Wallace Collection over the next couple of years.
  The Wallace Collection, just behind Selfridges, is an art gallery in the grand looking Hertford House and is famous for its collection of old masters, but also puts on a range of temporary exhibitions.
  Opening next March, to coincide with Sir Grayson Perry’s 65th birthday, the Wallace Collection will showcase a series o
  
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• Tickets Alert: Make your own Feathers McGraw

  19-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Aardman Animation will be at The Cartoon Museum for one day next month, and you can be guided on how to make your very own Feathers McGraw.
  (c) Aardman Animation
  Assisted by one of Aardman Animation’s own modelmakers, once you’ve made your own chicken/penguin, you’ll get to keep your creation and take it home, to be admired or mocked depending on how good you are with the modelling clays.
  Daytime workshops are suitable for age 6+, but they recommend the evening workshop for adu
  
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• Tickets Alert: See the City of London’s bridge archive documents

  19-09-2024 11:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, you will have a rare chance to see some of the earliest archive documents relating to some of the bridges over the Thames — many on display for the first time.
  Amy Proctor and Natasha Luck with the contract drawings for the rebuilding of Southwark Bridge from 1912 (c) City of London
  The items on display form part of a vast collection amassed by the the 900-year-old charity City Bridge Foundation, custodian of the Tower, London, Southwark, Millennium, and Blackfriars bridges.
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• The story behind the Beaumont Hotel’s steel man

  19-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A posh Mayfair hotel is locally famous for the metal man sculpture on its classical style frontage, but there’s a lot more to the hotel and the sculpture than might seem at first glance.The building is a shade under 100 years old, having been constructed in 1925-26 and opened in 1926, but not as a hotel for humans, but for cars. It’s a car park.
  Yes, really – that grand frontage was the front of a car park, with a petrol station on the ground floor where the hotel’s main
  
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