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• The London Buzz – 10th October 2024

  10-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Transport for London is still suffering the impact of a cyber attack with passengers waiting for refunds and some age groups missing out on free travel. ITVX
  Police have claimed that the use of live-facial recognition (LFR) systems in catching criminals is highly accurate — as councillors in Camden pressed officers about the technology’s flaws. Fitzrovia News
  Car parks in Blackheath, Charlton and Plumstead as well as Eltham’s historic tram s
  
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• British Museum to ditch depressing bag check “sheds” with an architect competition

  10-10-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Visiting a museum should be an uplifting experience, but these days, it often starts by being asked to open a bag so a security guard can peer at your personal belongings. The British Museum amplifies this depressing start to a visit by doing this in a couple of temporary plastic outdoor sheds, that were plonked outside the museum in early 2016.
  British Museum rear entrance
  Far from the grand stone facade that people want to head straight into, people are funnelled along queues into a white plas
  
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• Watford Museum granted £2.5 million Lottery funding for new home

  10-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Watford Museum, which is currently closed as it prepares to move to a new location, has been granted just under £2.5 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to help fund the project.
  Image of the Town Hall and new pedestrian plaza (c) Town Hall Quarter
  This funding will be used to support the creation of a new heritage service in Watford Town Hall, alongside neighbouring venues like the Colosseum and Library. Apart from making the museum more obvious to visitors by moving it closer
  
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• Enfield Chase station’s new mural celebrates local history and heritage

  10-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An impressivly large mural recently appeared at a North London railway station, telling the story of the local area and its people.The mural, created by the Enfield-based illustrator historian Kremena Dimitrova, is a collage mix of images and art called The Charter of the Forest. It is presumably named after the 1217 charter that opened up the royal forests for the free men to use.
  Arguably, the Charter of the Forest did more for the rights of the common folk than the much more famous Magna Cart
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of UCL’s north London telescope observatory

  10-10-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In north London is a fully functioning set of science discovering telescopes, and they offer tours to the public who fancy a chance to peer through them.It might seem odd to have a set of telescopes carrying out science in London, with all our urban light glare, and maybe even odder as it sits next to a major road with street lamps everywhere. Despite the main road outside, there are still a lot of fields around the observatory most of the area is quite low-rise property, and the street lamps ha
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Wilmington Square Garden, WC1

  10-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a large public garden square near Islington’s Spa Fields that has never been built on. The whole area around it was still fields in 1800, but just a couple of decades later, the local streets were laid out, with Wilmington Square in the centre.The developer was John Wilson, a property developer who had already been responsible for Gray’s Inn Road and Doughty Street (where Charles Dickens later lived).
  In 1817, he took a lease on the farm land from the Marquess of Northampton
  
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