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The London Buzz – 23rd January 2025

23-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Hundreds of Hoxton residents have been left without hot water for days on end over the winter – as heating issues continue to blight three estates. Hackney Citizen
A man has been arrested after a knife attack in which five people were injured at an Argos warehouse in Croydon, south London. Sky News
London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has insisted that his “views haven’t changed” in terms of his opposition to the expansion of Heathrow airport.

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The famously quirky Osterley Bookshop is closing down

23-01-2025 15:14 via ianvisits.co.uk

West London’s much-loved curio, a bookshop in an old tube station, will be closing as a bookshop, the owners have announced, although they will remain in the building.
Osterley Bookshop (c) ianVisits
The bookshop is based inside the ticket office of the original Osterley & Spring Grove tube station, which opened in 1883 but closed as a tube station in 1934 when a replacement Osterley station opened on the main road.
The old station building was used as a shop by a succession of owners

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HMS Wellington will reopen to the public later this year following restoration work

23-01-2025 12:03 via ianvisits.co.uk

HMS Wellington, the WWII ship moored next to the Thames Embankment in central London, will reopen to the public later this year after it secured a Lottery grant for restoration work.
HMS Wellington (c) ianVisits
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded £225,000 to help secure the future of HMS Wellington, the last surviving dedicated Battle of the Atlantic convoy escort in the UK. Wellington survives today as she was bought by the Honourable Company of Master Mariners in 1947 and mov

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First look at Canary Wharf’s annual Winter Lights display

23-01-2025 11:35 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Canary Wharf estate has been filled with a walking trail of winter lights in its annual festival, giving people a decent hour or so of free light shows to watch.The lights are scattered throughout the entire estate, and staff at each location hand out free paper maps. There are also plenty of signs to point your way.
It felt smaller than previous years, but in fact, there was only one artwork fewer (12 vs. 13). Maybe because some of them are large singular artworks instead of clusters of lot

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A new memorial marks the site of London’s Smithfield Market bombing

23-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A memorial to a WWII attack on the Smithfield markets can be found next to a newish office block recently completed in Farringdon.Nearly 80 years ago, on the late morning of 9th March 1945, a V2 rocket was fired from a site in the Netherlands at London. A few minutes later, at 11:03am, it hit the corner of the Smithfield markets in Farringdon. The attack was to become one of the worst civilian casualties of the V-2 rocket, with an estimated 110 people killed, and extensive damage to the whole ar

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