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• The London Buzz – 17th April 2025

  17-04-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A man was forced to leap out of a window as an e-bike fire destroyed a number of flats in Bethnal Green. ITV News
  New pub alert: Bohem Brewery’s third London venue transforms the long-empty Queen’s Arms into a Czech beer specialist pub.a Clapham Junction Insider
  Police want to temporarily close a South London club where a woman was allegedly raped by a staff member. Local London
  Monty Python star says ‘Let’s make British films, not Hol
  
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• Tickets Alert: The Fleet Street “Festival of Words”

  17-04-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A cluster of historic buildings in the City of London will host a four-day writers festival. The festival will focus on the Fleet Street area, historically home to the newspaper and printing trades.
  The Festival programme will feature current affairs and journalism events, fiction, screenwriting, poetry and spoken word, and family and children’s events.
  The festival will run from Wednesday 14th to Saturday 17th May 2025.
  The programme aims to include breakfast news events; lunchtime panels
  
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• Weekend markets returning to Leadenhall Market

  17-04-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The richly decorated Leadenhall Market in the City of London will host street markets at weekends throughout the summer and autumn.
  They tried it last year, and it presumably proved popular, as they’re back again.
  (c) Leadenhall Market
  The posh shops are usually closed at weekends, so this is a chance to visit and see the market as a, well, market once again. Although usually closed, some of the pubs and cafes will open on market weekends.
  There are two markets- the vintage furniture and f
  
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• From beeswax to bowls: Discover the science behind Korean musical history

  17-04-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Have you ever wondered how musical notes were defined — what makes a sound an A♯ or a B♭ — then an exhibition might help uncover some of the mystery.
  At least from a Korean perspective, and it all starts with small balls of beeswax.Just under 600 years ago, Korea’s King Sejong instructed Yeon Park to standardise the uneven sounds coming from musical instruments. So he set out to create a “standard” musical pipe against which all others could be judged.
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• British Army puts 80-years of SOLDIER magazine online in free archive

  17-04-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Good news for researchers as an 80 year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, SOLDIER, has been digitised and is now available online for free.
  SOLDIER magazine archive 1945-2025
  The magazine, SOLDIER (yes, in capitals) was authorised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as a morale-boosting magazine for British Army troops fighting in Europe during the Second World War. Originally expected to close after WWII, the Cold War, and later conflicts gave it a refreshed requirement, an
  
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• London’s Public Art: Embracing Forms, N17

  17-04-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  What looks like a random lump of stone sitting on a brick plinth is actually a work of public art and can be found near Seven Sisters in north London.It’s actually two abstract bodies embracing each other, hence the name, “Embracing Forms” and was purchased from the artist, Vanessa Pomeroy in 1983.
  It’s carved portland stone, mounted on top of a dark brick plinth.
  Oddly, the brick plinth reminded me of the brick obelisks erected by the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund in places wh
  
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