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• The London Buzz – 6th March 2025

  06-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Greenwich Council’s parks department spent more than £1 million refurbishing changing rooms that have been used only three times in the past 11 months The Greenwich Wire
  The site of a famous 1970s rock venue where David Bowie made one of his earliest appearances as Ziggy Stardust is at the centre of plans for a new housing development. BBC News
  A major office block next to Harrods in Knightsbridge has been approved despite concerns workers could b
  
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• Tickets Alert: Half price for Zippos Circus preview shows

  06-03-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The travelling circus is coming to town and will be popping up around London throughout 2025, and there’s a way of getting half-price tickets to the show.
  (c) Zippos Circus
  Prices to watch the shows vary depending on how close you are to the action, but they range from £21 for the rear seats to £35 for ringside seats.
  However, the opening night preview show just after they settle into each location has half-price tickets—so seats range from £12 to £15. That no
  
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• City of London grants Worshipful status to the PR guild as its 113th Livery Company

  06-03-2025 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the City of London’s oldest traditions received a modern update this week when a new Livery Company was created — the 113th such company in the past 900 years.
  Court of Alderman (c) ianVisits
  Within the City of London, the Livery Companies emerged from the old medieval trading guilds, which protected their trades and acted as an early welfare state for their members. The term Guild derives from the Saxon word for payment, since membership of these fraternities was (and still i
  
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• Tickets Alert: London’s “Tweed Run” cycling event returns in April

  06-03-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fancy a charming jaunt around the sights of London in a decorous style becoming of the Edwardian upper middle classes?
  (c) ianVisits
  Then the annualTweed Run is for you — around 400 people on safety bikes and some more dubious contraptions come together for a jolly fine day out perambulating around the city.
  A spot of English tea, a picnic, and a chance to show people how cycling is supposed to be done — in style, with politeness, and with a notable lack of flashing lights (a davy la
  
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• Approval for Bauhaus-inspired housing above Southwark tube station

  06-03-2025 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Approval has been granted for a housing development above Southwark tube station after a planned office block was deemed no longer viable.
  A previously consented scheme, approved in 2021, would have been for a single large commercial block with 25 affordable flats. However, it would also have been largely occupied by Transport for London (TfL), which no longer needed the site. Lacking other office tenants, the developer — a joint venture between Places for London, TfL’s property comp
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Temperance Hospital Garden, NW1

  06-03-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a new pocket park around the back of Euston station that ideally shouldn’t exist, and hopefully won’t last too long either.Unsurprisingly for the name, it sits on the site of the former National Temperance Hospital, but that building was demolished in 2016-7 to make space for the new HS2 station. However, with HS2’s station at Euston on hold, some of the building site spaces are being reopened as community gardens.
  The National Temperance Hospital was a private hospital
  
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