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• The London Buzz – 14th October 2024

  14-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  An Astroturf football pitch in Agnes Riley Gardens used by hundreds of adults and children every week, has been closed by Lambeth Council on the grounds that it is damaged beyond repair and is too expensive to replace. Brixton Buzz
  An investigation has been launched following a report of antisemitic messages being raked into bunkers at Hendon Golf Club. Harrow Online
  A Rastafari-led crisis support group has secured a building to deliver its services and says
  
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• Kew railway bridge track works completed to help reduce London Overground and District line delays

  14-10-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Network Rail says that it has completed track repairs works on a Grade II listed bridge over the River Thames between Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury stations.
  Kew railway bridge (c) Network Rail
  Over four weekends in September and October, engineers replaced all of the bridge’s 577 wheel timbers, which are used to hold the rails in place over the bridge on both lines. Engineers also replaced worn-out rail at either end of the structure.
  The old wheel timbers were over 25 years old and in poor
  
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• Camden consults on additional cycle hire docking station

  14-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Camden Council has started a consultation on adding a new cycle hire docking station just north of St Pancras station.
  The council says it has secured funding towards a Santander cycle hire docking station from various developments in the Granary Street and St Pancras Way area and has earmarked space on St Pancras Way as a suitable location.
  Santander cycle hire map with proposed location highlighted
  The docking station with 22 docking points could be installed on the pavement right outside the
  
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• Theatre memorabilia available in charity auction

  14-10-2024 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Theatre lovers may like this opportunity to bid on a range of memorabilia from London’s theatreland on behalf of charity.
  (c) Go Live Theatre Projects
  The charity, Go Live Theatre Projects offers opportunities for young people to visit theatres and learn new skills in performing arts, and they’ve been donated a wide range of theatre goodies that you can bid on to win.
  The goodies in the auction are mainly signed posters, opening night gift bags, and a few costume items from the shows
  
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• Bakerloo line extension pre-contracts awarded

  14-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The long path to the Bakerloo line extension has taken a step forward after Transport for London (TfL) awarded feasibility design contracts for the four new stations.
  Bakerloo line extension map (c) TfL
  Work on the feasibility study will be carried out over the next eight months, with the four new stations – Burgess Park, Old Kent Road, New Cross Gate, Lewisham – expected to be operational by 2040 according to TfL, subject to planning and funding approval.
  WW+P, the project’s l
  
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• View from The Shard visitor numbers decline amid competition from free viewing galleries

  14-10-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The View from the Shard visitor attraction is still attracting paying customers despite the opening of several free viewing galleries on the other side of the river.
  (c) ianVisits
  However, while their annual accounts show that while visitors still pay to visit, fewer are doing so, and that’s also affecting their income from the rooftop bar and shop.
  Ticket sales fell to just over £8.9 million in 2023 from just under £10.6 million in 2022. Bar and shop sales also declined to &po
  
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• London’s Alleys: Founders’ Court, EC2

  14-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This alley behind the Bank of England is likely one of the oldest alleys in the City of London, with an alignment that can be traced back to at least medieval times, when it was a gap between rows of houses.By the 1670s, the area was sufficiently developed that the alley had become the short dead end alley that it is today.
  The alley is marked as Founders Hall in William Morgan’s map of 1682 and is named after the Livery Hall that used to stand on the corner. The Worshipful Company of Foun
  
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