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• South Norwood’s Goat House Bridge gets a mural makeover

  29-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The amazingly named Goat House Bridge, which passes over the railway tracks in South Norwood, has been given a mural makeover as part of Croydon Council’s ongoing work to revive and regenerate the area.
  (c) Croydon Council
  Goathouse Bridge overlooks the railway and is named after The Goat House pub that once stood at the entrance to the area. The pub is thought to have taken its name from when the site was a clearing in the ‘North Wood’ where a goat herd lived and is marked &ls
  
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• Bill Bailey to read tube tannoy messages on the Underground on Thursday

  29-10-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you travel by tube this Thursday, you’ll hear comedian and musician Bill Bailey on the tannoy, as he’s recorded messages for the annual Poppy Day appeal.
  Bill Bailey in a London Underground control room (c) TfL
  TfL will support the annual London Poppy Appeal on Thursday 31st October with collections from 7am to 7pm at 70 stations across the capital, and actor, author and presenter Ross Kemp will support the collections at Charing Cross Underground station.
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• There’s a pre-Christmas auction of children’s bicycles

  29-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re looking for a children’s bike this Christmas but are feeling the pinch of the pennies, then there’s a thousand second-hand bikes up for auction at the moment.
  Don’t worry, you can buy just the one.
  (c) NCM Auctions
  NCM Auctions has partnered with Bike Club after it was approached back in March of this year to create revenue for Bike Club as they had 300 bikes in surplus, suitable between the ages of 4 to 12. Now they have about a thousand bikes to sell.
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