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• Barking railway footbridge reopens, ending three years of detours for local residents

  08-01-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A dangerous footbridge in east London that had to be closed after someone fell through the floor onto the railway below has been replaced, three years after it closed.In August 2022, a pedestrian crossing the Kennedy Road footbridge near Barking station had to be taken to hospital with minor injuries after he fell onto the railway.
  The old footbridge was demolished shortly afterwards, but in doing so, it severed the only crossing over the railway in this part of town. For people on the eastern s
  
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• London’s Butchers Hall confirms dates for next Carvery Lunches

  08-01-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you fancy lunch in one of the City of London’s ancient livery halls, it’s possible. Livery Halls are usually only open to members or hired out for events, but the Livery Hall of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, near the Barbican, holds monthly(ish) public lunches.
  (c) Butchers’ Hall
  Guests are welcomed with a drink reception from 12:15pm on the Ground Floor, before ascending to the Great Hall, where lunch is served at 1pm.
  You probably want to bring a coat, if only to hav
  
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• Too hot to Handel: Pipe organs reveal the truth about warming churches

  08-01-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Church archives are usually thought of as records of baptisms, marriages and burials stretching back centuries. But many churches also hold a second, largely overlooked archive: a record of temperature.
  That is, if the church has a pipe organ.
  St Giles without Cripplegate (c) ianVisits
  Most do, and pipe organs need periodic tuning as the seasons change. When organ tuners carry out that work, many will write down details of the ambient temperature and humidity at the time. Those observations are
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Katherine Buchan Meadow, Hanwell, W7

  08-01-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a recently revamped pocket park on a Hanwell side street on a plot of land that was once the site of almshouses.Back when this was still being turned from fields into homes, in 1876 local resident Katherine Buchan paid for four almshouses to be built next to St Mark’s Church in memory of her father. They continued providing accommodation for poor single ladies of the parish until the 1970s, by which time the four homes were in a state of disrepair and were demolished.
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