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The London Buzz – 21st February 2025

21-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Lambeth Council is set to gain up to £4.1M from refinancing the Myatts Field North PFI contract. Brizton Buzz
Camden Council has apologised to residents and businesses in Fitzrovia for noise and air pollution from production crews during a film shoot in Fitzroy Square earlier this month. Fitzrovia News
The fight is on to save a North London post office from closure as hundreds of people sign a petition urging the executive and local politician to recons

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Jubilee line train drivers’ seats getting an overdue refurbishment

21-02-2025 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Train drivers on the Jubilee line are about to get refurbished seats in their drivers cabs, after Transport for London (TfL) put out a request for a contractor to carry out the work.The seats are long overdue for replacement or repair, as they were last overhauled in 2011, and should have been maintained again in 2020 — but a pandemic put most maintenance plans on hold. TfL is now seeking a supplier to overhaul the seats, which it says are suffering from a high rate of failure. The contrac

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London Museum of Water and Steam secures £2.6m grant for urgent restoration

21-02-2025 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Urgently needed restoration work at the London Museum of Water and Steam will begin after the museum received a £2.63 million government grant.
(c) London Museum of Water and Steam
The grant, which followed a recent crowdfunder campaign supported by over 660 people, will go towards restoring the museum’s Great Engine House, home to the world’s two largest Cornish beam engines. Charles Dickens famously described the 40-foot-tall Grand Junction 90-inch steam engine inside the mus

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Early photographs of 19th-century England to be digitised for public access

21-02-2025 11:39 via ianvisits.co.uk

A leading collection of early English photographs has been saved for the nation after it was acquired by Historic England.
A view across the River Thames of Paul’s Wharf and St Paul’s Pier from Bankside, with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background. By George Washington Wilson, 1860 to 1900. (c) Historic England Archive. Janette Rosing Collection.
The Janette Rosing Collection of England is a collection of over 8,000 original black and white photographs of English architecture, l

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Winning architect for the British Museum’s redevelopment announced

21-02-2025 09:57 via ianvisits.co.uk

The architect who will lead the British Museum’s redeveloped western wing has been announced.
The western side of the Museum, where the redevelopment will take place, currently houses collections from Ancient Egypt, Greece (including the Parthenon Sculptures), Rome, Ancient Assyria, and the Middle East. Including the galleries, the redevelopment will encompass about a third of the British Museum’s space and significant back-of-house areas in one of the most ambitious projects of its

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