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V&A Museum closing its fashion gallery next month for a year of refurbishment works

31-03-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The V&A Museum’s large round fashion gallery is closing next month ahead of a year-long refurbishment project for the space.
Fashion Gallery (c) V&A Museum
The fashion gallery, in room 40, is one of the largest and most distinctive spaces within the museum. It opened in 1909 as a large octagonal space. However, in 1962, a large circular gallery was slotted into the middle of the room to house the musical instruments collection.
That large intrusion means the space’s size and

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A graffiti-covered tube train inside a fake station? Exploring an exhibition of street art

31-03-2025 13:03 via ianvisits.co.uk

An old bank next to Piccadilly Circus currently has a graffiti-covered tube train up on the first floor, and it’s freely open to visit.
As it happens, it’s a fake tube station, housed in a fake tube station.It’s also the temporary home to an exhibition of graffiti street art of the sort that can repel as much as it attracts — the sort you tend to see on the sides of railways and, at times, on trains themselves.
The exhibition features three graffiti artists, 10Foot, Tox,

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London’s Alleys: Rex Place, W1

31-03-2025 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This royally named double passage can be found in posh Mayfair and is the sort of place where the first dozen pages in Google are full of estate agent adverts for expensive houses.This part of London was first being laid out with a grid of streets in the 1740s, but it seems likely that Rex Place was not expected to exist, and was added later when the fields were filled in with houses.
John Rocque’s map 1746
R Horwood’s map of 1799 shows the northern half of the passageway leadi

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Eurostar faces competition as rail regulator finds space for rival trains

31-03-2025 08:51 via ianvisits.co.uk

There could be more competition on the railways between London and mainland Europe sooner than expected after the railway regulator issued a significant update.
The issue had been where to store all the extra trains and carry out maintenance on them. The prospective train companies want to be allowed to use Eurostar’s Temple Mills depot in east London, but Eurostar had argued there wasn’t enough space for them.
Temple Mills depot – from a site visit in 2011 (c) ianVisits
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Altnet consolidation picks up as G.Network renews push for sale

31-03-2025 06:00

Broadband challenger tasked advisers last week with seeking potential buyers

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