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• Barbican’s £231m renewal gets green light – with year-long closure planned

  03-03-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A £231 million overhaul of the Barbican Arts Centre has been approved, with the City of London committing £191 million to the first phase of the major renewal programme.
  The remaining funding to complete the project will be sought through philanthropic and partnership support.
  Main foyer (c) ianVisits
  At the heart of the scheme is a substantial upgrade to the Barbican’s Conservatory. Longstanding maintenance and accessibility issues will be addressed, alongside the creation of
  
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• Shell shocked: Strawberry Hill plans to rebuild Horace Walpole’s lost garden seat

  03-03-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Strawberry Hill House & Garden has launched an appeal to restore Horace Walpole’s long-lost Shell Seat — once one of the most enchanting features of his celebrated eighteenth-century garden.
  Jean-Henri Müntz, View of the Shell Seat and Bridge at Strawberry Hill, 1755. Ink drawing. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  Designed as a place for rest, conversation and gentle spectacle, the Shell Seat was part of Walpole’s self-styled “land of beauties”, a lan
  
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• Mind the Art: Tube stations transformed into atmospheric paintings

  03-03-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A series of large-scale paintings depicting Tube stations, paired with the ambient sounds of the Underground, are on display at the Guildhall Art Gallery, creating an immersive plunge into the depths of London’s transport network.The paintings are by Jock McFadyen, accompanied by an ambient underground soundtrack by Jem Finer.
  One of the paintings is of Bank tube station, showing an advertising space that had the adverts scraped off, leaving behind almost abstract art in their wake. Many o
  
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• London Overground trains are calling at London Bridge station this Saturday

  03-03-2026 12:43 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This Saturday, there will be a fairly rare sight as London Overground trains will be calling at London Bridge station.Running all day on Saturday 7th March, the unusual London Overground service between London Bridge and West Croydon is needed because TfL engineering works are closing the Windrush line north of New Cross Gate.
  Edited TfL Overground map showing affected area
  Therefore, on Saturday only, between 7am and 10pm, a special train service will operate between London Bridge and West Croy
  
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• Kentish Town’s disused cinema to be restored as a community space and work hub

  03-03-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A former Kentish Town cinema that had fallen into disrepair is to be renovated and converted into a new community event space and workspace for hire.
  An artist’s impression of the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Space. Picture credit: IF_DO Architects
  The former Palace Cinema on Prince of Wales Road in Kentish Town was built in 1913 by the prolific cinema designer, John Stanley Beard, but closed as a cinema in the 1950s. The cinema used to have its main entrance on Kentish Town Road (next to th
  
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• Lost tiles and ghost poster frames revealed at Oval tube station

  03-03-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For a few weeks, you have a chance to see fragments of the 1920s at Oval tube station as the 1990s cladding has been removed for repair work.Oval tube station opened as part of the City and South London Railway in 1890 and originally had a distinctive red brick station building with a large glass dome for lifts down to the platform.
  When that branch of the Northern line was modernised in the 1920s, they also rebuilt Oval tube station, replacing the lifts with escalators and the Victorian Arts an
  
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