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The London Buzz – 27th February 2025

27-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
In her two years at Foxtons, one of London’s biggest estate agencies, Lucy said her managers and co-workers groped her, sent her explicit messages, discussed her weight in work WhatsApp chats and told her to start an account on OnlyFans, Bloomberg
It’s still there! The massive transformer on Coldharbour Lane is now stuck in place until Sunday, 2nd March 2025 Brixton Buzz
The leader of Lambeth Council has denied hiding cuts to libraries from the pu

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Oxford Street redevelopment could reveal remains of London’s Civil War defences

27-02-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Plans to redevelop a block of buildings on Oxford Street might uncover remains from a huge fortification wall built around London to protect it during the English Civil War.The building, an office block with shops on the ground floor, is on the eastern end of Oxford Street, just north of Soho Square. Designed by H. Percy Adams and Charles Holden, the Grade II-listed Evelyn House was built in 1909 in a style that’s transitioning from the richly decorated Edwardian to Holden’s more fam

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Mayor of London eyes Great Northern and Southeastern rail takeover

27-02-2025 11:10 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Mayor of London’s new growth plan, announced this morning, reiterates his ambition to take over the Southeastern and Great Northern railways.
Regional rail upgrades map (c) London Growth Plan
It’s a very high-level report, mainly for aspirations of what could be more than a list of practical actions that will be taken, but does outline some areas of transport interest.
One is the recognition that public trasport connections need improving in Outer London, which is likely to refle

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Visiting the church of St Peter and St Paul, Cudham

27-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This church, not far from Charles Darwin’s home, has been the site of Christian worship from before the Norman conquest, and although the church building today is younger, it’s only slightly so.It was likely chosen as a location for a church and settlement thanks to being at the top of a very steep hill, near the village of Downe — this is a part of London with a heck of a lot of ups and downs in very short order, and most of them are quite steep.
I realised this when thinking

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