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• Plans for improved Tube station access stalled by reduced office development

  09-12-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Revised plans for an office development next to London Bridge station are unlikely to be able to include the proposed improvements to the tube station entrance on Borough High Street.The entrance is on Borough High Street and provides access to the Jubilee and Northern lines. However, it is narrow and faces directly onto an equally narrow and busy pavement. Plans for a new office tower behind the station’s entrance would have allowed a new doorway to be cut into the rear of the building, t
  
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• Huge scale model of Red Dwarf’s Starbug put up for sale

  09-12-2024 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you have a very large back garden, or maybe a museum with a large empty space crying out to be filled — then a huge scale model of the Starbug spaceship from Red Dwarf could be yours.
  (c) Windsor Auctions
  Large enough that in another world, it could almost be a touring caravan, the model was actually built for the 2019 AA advert and season trailer ‘Stellar Rescue’.Hang on, you mean they built a giant scale model of Starbug and that wasn’t just a tiny model in a film se
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cucumber Alley, WC2

  09-12-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a covered alley in Seven Dials near Covent Garden that looks old and is on an old alignment but is actually entirely modern.An alley that aligns loosely with Cucumber Alley first appears on the William Morgan map of 1682 and is called Mairmaid Alley.
  William Morgan map 1682
  However, the whole area was completely rebuilt by the developer Thomas Neil in the 1690s to form the street pattern we have today, centred on Seven Dials. Originally built as housing, this is also when Cucumber Alley
  
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