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• The London Buzz – 27th January 2025

  27-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The social housing waiting list in the capital has risen to a 10-year high, according to the latest figures. Inside Housing
  German Doner Kebab (GDK) has revealed it is targeting 25 new openings this year beginning with its first train station location, which has just launched in London Victoria. Restaurant Online
  London City has applied for permission for Airbus A320neos to operate from the airport to open up more routes. Travel Gossip
  London’s 33 borou
  
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• Free tickets to visit the London Wetland Centre – WWT

  27-01-2025 16:43 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve never been to the London Wetland Centre in southwest London, then maybe you might be tempted by a free ticket offer for a mid-week visit.
  (c) WWT London Wetland Centre
  The wetland centre opened in 2000, taking over a site that had been a series of defunct, concrete-lined Victorian reservoirs and turning it into a large wildlife reserve fairly close to central London.
  The WWT, which manages the wildlife park in London, and several others outside London, is offering free entry betw
  
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• Boxpark looking to stay on Camden Town tube station site until 2032

  27-01-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A plot of land that will be needed when Camden Town tube station gets a second entrance may be off-limits for longer than originally expected.
  The site, to the north of Camden Town station, was occupied by Buck Street Market, but in late 2023, Transport for London (TfL) bought it to secure it as a building site for the planned tube station upgrade. With the tube station upgrade currently on hold, TfL’s property arm, Places for London, leased the site to Boxpark, a shipping container-based
  
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• Work to create a new Heritage Centre for Newham has started

  27-01-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to convert Canning Town Old Library into Newham’s new heritage centre has started, and the council is now asking the public to suggest a name for it.
  Canning Town Old Library
  Canning Town Library closed in 2017 when the books moved to Rathbone Market, and the building has been vacant ever since.
  In 2022, the council appointed architects Haworth Tompkins, to rennovate and upgrade the building, so that it can become the area’s new heritage centre, as well as spaces to rent and wor
  
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• A new silver tube roundel unveiled for TfL’s silver anniversary

  27-01-2025 11:28 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This year marks Transport for London’s (TfL) 25th anniversary, and they’ve shown off a new silver roundel to mark their Silver Anniversary.When London’s public transport was first pseudo-nationalised in 1933, it adopted the London Transport brand name, although the organising name varied regularly depending on a political whim at the time.1933-1948: London Passenger Transport Board
  1948-1963: London Transport Executive
  1963-1970: London Transport Board
  1970-1984: London Transpo
  
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• London’s Alleys: White Bear Yard, EC1

  27-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a very short little stump of an alley in Clerkenwell that today leads to the side entrance to a warehouse office conversion.The area developed from the 1600s onwards, and this 1676 map shows that the western side of the alley had developed, but the corner plot was still empty.
  Ogilby and Morgan map 1676
  A century later, and unsurprisingly, the whole area is fully developed, and this seems to be the first time that what was called White Bear Coach Yard can be seen on maps.
  John Rocque map
  
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