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The London Buzz – 17th February 2025

17-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Billboard company Wildstone has snapped up 13 of London’s highest profile digital advertising installations in an £80 million deal with Transport for London. Standard
Homes in Brentford and Isleworth could get their heating from the sewage output of Mogden under plans being brought forward by Hounslow Council Brentford TW8
The restaurant staffed solely by people who’ve experienced homelessness Postivie News
When London was beginning to estab

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SOLDIER magazine marks 80 years with exhibition at National Army Museum

17-02-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Next month marks the 80th anniversary of a military magazine that was only supposed to last a few years, and there’s an exhibition about it at the National Army Museum.The magazine, SOLDIER (yes, in capitals) was authorised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as a morale-boosting magazine for British Army troops fighting in Europe during the Second World War.
The first fortnightly edition of SOLDIER was printed in Brussels in March 1945 and later printed in Germany following the fall of th

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Bank tube station’s Cannon Street entrance to become eight-storey office block

17-02-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Bank tube station’s new entrance on Cannon Street is due to have an office block on top, and construction work has now started.
Bank station entrance (c) ianVisits
To allow the Bank tube station upgrade project to have space at the street level for construction work, a rather nondescript 1970s office block was demolished. The site was used for access down to the tunnels and to build the new Cannon Street entrance.
It was always intended to replace the office block, and plans for an eight-s

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London’s Alleys: Circus Mews, W1

17-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a tiny alley a few minutes to the south of Marylebone station that’s small enough to be a blink and you’ll miss it sort of passage.This part of London was still largely fields until just a couple of hundred years ago. The mews and area around started being developed by the Portman family in the late 1700s, and Horwood’s map of 1799 shows the northern side of the mews built with houses and back gardens, but the rest of the area to the south was still empty.
R Horwood Map

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