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• The London Buzz – 24th September 2024

  24-09-2024 18:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Left as tokens of love, remembrance and hope, “lovelocks” are an increasingly common sight across the capital. Londonist
  The Labour MP for Southport has found his temporary home in an 80 pound a night accommodation for students of the London School of Economics. The Tab
  A grandmother who was a ‘secret’ writer and poet will have her words displayed in a mural on the housing estate where she lived. Times Series
  Hackney’s Mayor, Car
  
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• Tickets Alert: Candlelit tours of the medieval Charterhouse

  24-09-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A chance to step into a medieval monastery near the Barbican on a Friday evening for a guided tour by flickering candlelight. The Charterhouse has long been hidden from the outside world by a high wall, but a few years ago, the people who still live there started offering tours, and then a museum was opened, and now the tours are a regular event.
  Now they also offer evening tours that will take you around the main buildings, a glass of wine in hand, with the tour guide showing you the sights by
  
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• 1970s Seifert designed office tower set for demolition

  24-09-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A 1970s Seifert-designed office block with 26 floors near Liverpool Street station is set to be replaced with a 53-story office tower.
  Visualisation of the new tower – amended from original source RSHP / Planning application
  According to the planning application, the replacement building will be split into two, with the main office block sitting next to a smaller, separate “cultural building” that will include a gallery, hall, and workspaces.
  Part of the argument put forward by
  
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• Victoria tube station’s Edwardian shopping arcade restored to its original appearance

  24-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An Edwardian shopping arcade above Victoria tube station is reopening after being restored to its early 1900s appearance.The Victoria Station Arcade and accompanying range of shops in Terminus Place were built in 1909-11 when the District line station below was being rebuilt following the introduction of electric trains. The trains didn’t need the large open ventilation spaces for steam to escape, so they were able to build over the station with the row of shops and offices.
  Here at Victor
  
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• Southeastern completes fleet upgrade with final City Beam train transfer

  24-09-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The last of 30 refurbished City Beam trains has been accepted into service on Southeastern trains, having been transferred over from South Western Railway (SWR).
  (c) Southeastern
  The first of the 30 refurbished City Beams were introduced onto the Southeastern network in September 2021, and the transfer of the remaining two trains means this cascade is now complete.
  The trains were originally introduced on SWR between August 2017 to March 2018, but with the SWR franchise change at the same time,
  
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• Rare Harry Beck tube maps going on display next month

  24-09-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of rare tube maps, including some annotated by Harry Beck, will be on display next month before being offered for sale.
  The exhibition, by The Map House in central London, will showcase the most significant collection of Beck manuscripts ever offered for sale, some of which Beck gifted to his friend and biographer Ken Garland.
  Extract from an unpublished proof of Harry Beck’s 1933 First Edition Tube Map, Harry Beck, 1932. Courtesy of The Map House
  Highlights of the exhibition
  
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• RingRail – the 1973 railway plan that paved the way for the London Overground

  24-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1973, a plan for a new RingRail around London was proposed, and although it was never built as planned, it sort of did get built much later, as the London Overground.
  Front cover of the report – authors own copy (c) RingRail
  The RingRail was announced in March 1973, to address what was only then starting to be understood – that the motor car could not be the future of commuting in cities. As the report noted at the time, around 10% of the people who commuted to work by car took up
  
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