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• The London Buzz – 11th February 2025

  11-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A 9m-high section of the Smithsons’ now-demolished Robin Hood Gardens housing estate will be on display at V&A East Storehouse when it opens at the Olympic Park this May RIBA Journal
  Residents have been allowed to return home after a man was seen brandishing a knife in a flat above shops in south-east London. BBC News
  Over 900 people have already made objections to a proposal to build a six-storey block of flats within Lammas Park. Ealing Today
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the former BBC studios at Alexandra Palace

  11-02-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there’s a chance to tour the original BBC studios inside the Ally Pally, where television was born.
  BBC Studios May 2023 (c) ianVisits
  The space is pretty run down now, but it still echoes the time when actors and musicians would perform in the rooms and the many technicians stood off screen to control what went on.
  When it started, the BBC leased the entire East Wing of the Alexandra Palace for the new television service, with former dining rooms transformed into studios, fitt
  
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• TfL wins £1m worth of free ad space at Outernet London

  11-02-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Outernet in central London is currently running an advert by Transport for London (TfL) after TfL won a million quid’s worth of free placement in the video wall-covered venue.Through their London’s Greatest Advertising Competition, whose theme this year was Diversity in Advertising, the competition asked entrants to optimise media platforms to drive positive societal change.
  TfL’s ‘Fabric of London’ creative is inspired by the moquette seating fabric and include
  
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• Old Oak Common’s HS2 station milestone with foundation slab completion

  11-02-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The foundation slab for west London’s new railway station at Old Oak Common has been completed, allowing construction of the rest of the station to proceed.
  Foundations complete for HS2’s Old Oak Common high speed station (c) HS2
  The 850-metre-long underground station base, which will house six platforms for high-speed trains, has been constructed using 76,000 cubic metres of concrete and 17,000 tonnes of reinforced steel. The base slab covers 45,000 square metres – equivalent
  
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• The tube station built for the 1908 Olympics – and what became of it

  11-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Many tube stations have been built over the years to serve local housing estates or industries, but in 1908, a tube station was built just for the 1908 Olympics.The station is Preston Road just to the north of Wembley Stadium, and while today it’s surrounded by housing, back in the 1900s, the area was still the heart of the rural countryside.
  The Metropolitan Railway built its line through here to get from Neasden to Harrow on the Hill, opening it in 1880, but didn’t build anything a
  
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• Natural History Museum opening a refurbished gallery in April

  11-02-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Natural History Museum will be opening a refurbished gallery in April, focusing on efforts to reduce the impact of climate change and environmental damage.
  Prior to restoration (c) Natural History Museum
  The first of many restorations underway at the Museum ahead of its 150th anniversary, the space will soon be filled with 250 specimens from the natural world, many of which have never been seen before.
  The new gallery occupies the space that used to be the Hall of Human Biology, which opened
  
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