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• Gunnersbury Park Museum closing for a month of refurbishment work

  29-12-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The new year will start with a temporary museum closure, as the Gunnersbury Park Museum has announced its closure for refurbishment work.
  Gunnersbury Park Museum
  Only for a month, as they say they will spend the time preparing for the park’s centenary, which takes place on 21st May 2026.
  Gunnersbury Park Museum will be closed from 5th January to 3rd February. During this time, the park will remain fully open, and a new park cafe, Pure in the Park, will be opening on 5th January.
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• DLR delivers: Cutty Sark station gets new escalators via the tracks

  29-12-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The replacement escalators have arrived at Cutty Sark DLR station, and they were delivered by rail.
  Delivery by DLR (c) Quattro Plant
  The DLR station is currently closed as all the escalators are being replaced after repeated attempts to repair them failed to fix the faults. Because the station was built with very limited space, it had to close during the repairs, as there was no sensible way of redirecting passengers.
  Old escalators at platform level (c) ianVisits
  The cramped space also means i
  
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• Winter sale on West End theatre tickets for plays, pantos and musicals

  29-12-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This winter, London theatre-goers can snap up deals in a Winter Theatre Sale, with London Theatre Direct offering up to 50% off on top West End shows and many tickets starting from around £15.Whether you’re after family favourites, blockbuster musicals or thought-provoking dramas, there’s something to suit every taste.
  From pantomimes and holiday specials to long-running West End blockbusters and contemporary plays, discounted tickets are available now online, but availability
  
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• London’s Alleys: Murray Terrace, Hampstead, NW3

  29-12-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This very short, but quite pretty little lane in Hampstead village, and also one of the earliest little passages to be built in the area.It’s unnamed, but appears as a longer road in an 1848 map leading via some shorter passages through to Streatley Place. However, just 50 years later, it’s showing up as having been cut back to its current length, with the land to the west cleared. That’s because the site was needed for the New End Primary School.
  OS Map 1953
  It took a while fo
  
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• HS2 railway shifts from excavation to civil works amid cost and schedule rethink

  29-12-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An end-of-year update from HS2 railway has outlined its progress on Britain’s largest infrastructure project, at a time when it is being fundamentally restructured.
  Colne Valley viaduct (c) ianVisits
  The data show that excavation of all 23 miles of deep-bore tunnels on the section of the railway between Old Oak Common and Birmingham Curzon Street has now been completed. Around 70 per cent of the project’s earthworks have been delivered, alongside the use of almost 300,000 tonnes of s
  
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