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• National Portrait Gallery buys rare photographs of Ada Lovelace for the nation

  22-12-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
  (c) Bonhams
  Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, and is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first person to realise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and is widely re
  
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• London’s Alleys: Ransom Walk, Charlton, SE7

  22-12-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This short passage in Charlton that runs under the mainline railway spends most of its life as a very quiet little passage, and occasionally throngs with huge crowds. That’s because it happens to be one of the routes to Charlton football club stadium, but as a passage, it owes its origins to the thing that gives the stadium its nickname – The Valley.Long before there was a football stadium here, there was a large sand-and-chalk open-air mine excavated for building materials. And to g
  
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