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• Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets may survive with new market buildings

  23-12-2024 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The future of the Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish markets look brighter after it was confirmed that they are close to securing alternative sites when their existing markets close.The City of London, which has the legal responsibility to provide the market sites, is currently seeking to have that obligation removed after its plans for a new wholesale market in Dagenham Dock were dropped. The closure of the markets could have meant the two wholesale sites would close, and the traders
  
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• Mobile phone coverage expanded southwards on the Northern line

  23-12-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Following the latest expansion of coverage on the Underground, more of the bottom of the Northern line is getting mobile phone coverage in the tunnels.
  The expansion of mobile coverage on the southern end of the Northern line includes the tunnelled section between Clapham North and Balham, as well as within Oval, Clapham Common and Clapham South stations.
  In addition, coverage on the Bakerloo line recently went live along the tunnelled sections between Piccadilly Circus and Embankment, with furt
  
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• The King’s speech will come from central London’s Fitzrovia Chapel

  23-12-2024 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Normally recorded in Buckingham Palace, this year’s King’s Speech will come from the glittering interior of the Fitzrovia Chapel in central London.The Grade II*-listed Fitzrovia Chapel is just north of Oxford Street and was the chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital. When the hospital closed down and was later demolished to make space for flats and offices, the chapel was preserved and later restored.
  Today, it sits in the centre of the buildings that replaced the hospital and is op
  
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• Royal rhinos, knitted wombs and anal surgery — Versailles comes to the Science Museum

  23-12-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The glittering place of Versaille, famous for court intrigue and its wealth, was also a hotbed of science. The Science Museum has brought together some of the glittering and the grim to tell the little-told tale of French science in the dying centuries of the French monarchy.For all the grand paintings and grand science on display, there is probably something rather plain in the exhibition that shows how the palace worked at its best and worst.
  In 1686, Louis XIV of France (1638 –&t
  
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• A dinosaur’s head has appeared inside Crystal Palace railway station

  23-12-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The head of an Iguanodon dinosaur has appeared inside Crystal Palace station, mounted on the wall as if it were a hunter’s trophy.Obviously, it’s a replica based on the famous Victorian concrete dinosaurs and beasts in Crystal Palace Park.
  The replica was donated to the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (FCPD) by Bompas & Parr, a food and drink company, from an event it held in 2010, where they recreated an 1853 dinner that took place inside (allegedly) the body of the Iguanodo
  
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• London’s Alleys: Grotto Passage, W1

  23-12-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the heart of Marylebone, a narrow gap between rows of upmarket shops leads to an alley that was once a notorious slum.The slums were built on the site of an actual grotto — an early tourist attraction built by John Castles in what was still countryside along the newly built Paddington Street. The grotto opened in 1738 and quickly became a fashionable place to visit to admire the shell-lined covered tunnels. John Castles built a second grotto in 1756, turning the original into a dining s
  
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