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• Fans, Frigates and Flirtation: Jane Austen’s world in Greenwich exhibitions

  09-01-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  We’re in the midst of Jane Austen’s 250th-anniversary celebrations, and Greenwich has put together two exhibitions that illuminate very different sides of life in her time – one social and decorative, the other naval and personal.
  Greenwich Fan Museum
  “It is a truth universally acknowledged…” that a Georgian lady was rarely seen without a fan — and the Fan Museum is filled with them.Part fashion accessory, part cooling device, part coded instrument of f
  
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• TfL signs Otis to keep the Tube’s escalators moving until the 2040s

  09-01-2026 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London (TfL) has awarded a 16-year contract to Otis to service and modernise 172 of its escalators across the London Underground network.
  Farringdon station (c) ianVisits
  The deal significantly expands Otis’s role underground. Once the contract begins, the company will maintain more than 300 of TfL’s roughly 570 escalators, making it the single largest escalator contractor on the network.
  Otis has a long history with the London Underground, as it was the firm that insta
  
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• Billiards without Beer: The time London tried to cure itself of the booze

  09-01-2026 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  At their peak, nearly a third of England’s temperance halls aimed at curbing the scourge of alcohol once stood in London — a statistic that says as much about Victorian drinking habits in the capital as it does about the scale of the movement that rose up to challenge them.
  And many of the survivors are “hidden in plain sight” with new names and functions.
  The Old Vic theatre — originally the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall (c) Historic England
  That concentration i
  
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