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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Shoreditch Town Hall

  09-10-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The impressively grand Shoreditch Town Hall is open for tours roughly once a month, letting people look around the nearly 160 year old building and see behind the scenes as well.
  Shoreditch Town Hall
  Opened in 1866 as one of the grandest Vestry Halls of the time, the hall ceased to be a council building in 1965 when the London Borough of Hackney was formed. It was later used as an entertainment venue, but following a decade of decline, it was handed to the Shoreditch Town Hall Trust in 1997 and
  
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• Peek beneath Liverpool Street: Building site displays intricate tunnel layouts

  09-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A building site next to Liverpool Street station is giving passersby a glimpse into what lies beneath their feet – with a large schematic of the tunnels.Building site hoardings are often fairly plain, but increasingly larger development sites are hiring local community groups or artists to put some colour into the otherwise bland barriers that are needed to protect building sites.
  Many will also include glossy photos of the end product, but Mace, the developer of the One Liverpool Street s
  
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• Looks delicious, but you can’t eat it: The art of Japanese food replicas comes to London

  09-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A room has been filled with tasty food from all across Japan, but none of it will ever go stale, nor can it be eaten — as it’s all fake food.The idea of creating fake food started in 1917 when Nishio Shōjirō was hired to create replica food for nutritional lessons but set up a small sideline in making replicas for restaurants to show off. A few other people made replicas after that, but in 1932, Iwasaki Takizō set up the first company to mass-produce replica foods spec
  
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