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• The London Buzz – 8th April 2025

  08-04-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Campaigners in south-east London are calling on the government to tighten the law on catapults to stop wildlife being killed. BBC News
  Housebuilder Vistry Group has secured planning permission from Enfield Council to build 723 new homes as part of a wider scheme. Housing Today
  The former boss of Google, Eric Schmidt, has bought a Holland Park mansion for nearly £42m, in the latest in a string of big transactions in London’s prime real estate marke
  
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• The original Star Wars movie is coming to the BFI

  08-04-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, there will be a chance to go back to a long time ago, and a galaxy far, far away – well, to London’s Southbank for a special screening of the original Star Wars movie.
  The original Star Wars poster (Disney/Lucasfilm)
  As part of a season of original print screenings by the BFI Southbank, the original version of the Star Wars movie will be shown on the big screen for the first time in ages. It isn’t easy to find a copy, as most home versions would be on VHS, and hard
  
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• From clocks to canopies – free exhibition marks 40 years of saving Britain’s railway heritage

  08-04-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition has opened inside Waterloo station to celebrate 40 years of protecting and restoring the UK’s railway heritage. There’re all examples of work carried out by the Railway Heritage Trust, which is celebrating its 40th birthday this year.The Railway Heritage Trust is a not-for-profit company that awards grants to railway buildings and structures that are listed or in conservation areas and are Network Rail assets.
  As explained at the exhibition opening by the RHT’s Ch
  
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• You can see the world’s oldest guitar in a basement behind the Royal Albert Hall

  08-04-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Did you know that the world’s oldest guitar is in the basement of a South Kensington college and that anyone can wander in to have a look?It’s in the Royal College of Music Museum — which has a name that is not at all confusingly similar to the Royal Academy of Music Museum, and in fact I got the two mixed up when planning a visit, thinking the College is only open on Fridays, when in fact it’s open a lot more than that.
  The College’s museum is smaller but arguably
  
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• Cheap return fares offered by Greater Anglia for early summer trips

  08-04-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Train operator Greater Anglia has launched its annual summer ‘Hare Fares’, offering return trips from London from £14 return for a limited time.
  (c) Greater Anglia
  Hare Fares must be booked by 22nd April for travel before 10th June from the Greater Anglia website. There is no limit on the number of tickets that a passenger can purchase.
  Children can travel for £2 per child when accompanied by an adult.
  Example adult return fares from London:
  Destinations for £14 ret
  
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• Unbuilt London: The Central Metropolitan Railway

  08-04-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Long before the Northern line could carry people from St Pancras to the Embankment, plans were made for a sub-surface railway in the same style as the Metropolitan line along a similar route.
  This was the Central Metropolitan Railway, planned in 1881 and blocked by Parliament in 1882 — so it didn’t last long.
  In 1881, the Central Metropolitan Railway proposed a cut-and-cover line running from Parliament Square to St Pancras/King’s Cross. At the southern end, the line was to run
  
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• After 150 years at Euston, Robert Stephenson statue takes temporary home in Shildon

  08-04-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The statue of Robert Stephenson, which stood at Euston station for nearly 150 years until it was removed for HS2 works, has reappeared — this time outside the Locomotion railway museum in Shildon, County Durham.
  Robert Stephenson statue outside Locomotion museum in Shildon (c) HS2
  The statue, designed by Carlo Marochetti, was commissioned by the Institute of Civil Engineers to commemorate the great engineer. Although completed fairly quickly, it was kept in storage for some years while a l
  
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