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The London Buzz – 15th January 2025

15-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Town centre in Brent set for £10.5m makeover with permanent street market Harrow Online
A floating reed bed has been launched in Wanstead Park to create a habitat for wildlife and improve water quality. Guardian Series
Thousands are expected to March through central London this Saturday (18 January), in solidarity with all oppressed women around the world. Londonist
The Victoria Hall Trust charity is being charged more by Ealing Council for management a

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Repairs to Greenwich railway station’s historic canopy

15-01-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

One of London’s oldest railway stations, at Greenwich, is to get some tender loving care as the old canopy on Platform 2 will be restored and repaired.
Source – plannin documents
The historic canopy on the London-bound platform, which sits right next to the main entrance, has deteriorated over the years and now needs substantial maintenance to repair it and prevent further damage.
The daggerboards that run around the edge of the canopy typically need maintenance every five years, so

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Step back in time: Rare medieval ‘smartphones’ to go on display in London

15-01-2025 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

A collection of rare medieval “smartphones” will go on display next month, offering an unusual chance to see so many of these curios up close.
The concertina-fold almanacs, also known as girdlebooks, as they could be hung from a belt and carried around, were fold-out booklets that unfolded to reveal a range of information. Nicknamed ‘medieval smartphones, ‘ they helped their users keep track of time, look up information, and organise their lives.
A 15th-century medieval a

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More loos for your choo choos – Southeastern adding toilets to its City Beam trains

15-01-2025 11:22 via ianvisits.co.uk

Southeastern’s newish Class 707 ‘City Beam’ trains will be fitted with customer toilets for the first time, the operator has announced.
(c) Southeastern
South West Trains (SWT) originally ordered the Class 707 trains without toilets a decade ago. In 2020, it was agreed that they would be refurbished and transferred to Southeastern instead, but refurbishment was unable to add toilets at the time.
Now Southeastern has confirmed it will be adding loos to the trains.
Final contract

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Find the remains of the Lambs Conduit

15-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Running through part of Bloomsbury is the moderately upmarket Lambs Conduit Street, and if you look carefully, you can see the remains of the water conduit that gives the area its name.Lambs Conduit is named after London cloth merchant and wealthy philanthropist William Lambe, although there is some confusion about his involvement with this conduit. It is not in dispute that he was involved in it, and he had a record of supporting charitable works. Now, he either repaired and renamed the existin

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