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• Tickets Alert: Open days at the Postal Museum’s overflow warehouse

  05-03-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Postal Museum is reopening its overflow warehouse in Debden, giving visitors a chance to see objects too large for display at The Postal Museum’s central London site.
  Debden depot (c) Postal Museum
  The depot used to be open occasionally but stopped some years ago – and after a long gap will resume now.
  The visit will consist of an hour-long tour of the store, led by The Postal Museum’s curators, followed by half an hour of free time to explore the space and get up close to
  
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• Mayor steps in after Barnet Council blocks homes next to High Barnet tube station

  05-03-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A rejected plan to build homes next to High Barnet tube station has been called in by the Mayor of London for review.
  Initial concept image (c) Barratt London
  High Barnet is a northern terminus for the Northern line and sits at the bottom of a slope alongside sidings for used to store tube trains when not in use.
  The plan, put forward by TfL’s property arm, Places for London and Barratt Homes, would have seen approximately 300 new homes, including 40% affordable homes, built on the car par
  
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• Kew’s Victorian Palm House set for £60m overhaul after lottery funding boost

  05-03-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A major £60 million project to refurbish the Victorian Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has moved a step closer after the scheme secured an initial £240,000 development grant and a potential £10 million delivery grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
  Palm House (c) ianVisits
  The funding will support plans to restore the 19th-century glasshouse, which sits at the heart of Kew’s UNESCO World Heritage Site but now requires substantial work after decades o
  
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• The posters that helped topple communism go on display in Westminster

  05-03-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A good protest is often remembered not just for what it demanded, but for how it looked – and a new exhibition explores the poster designs that helped define the pro-democracy protests sweeping Eastern Europe in the dying days of the Cold War.The slogans shouted in the streets, the posters pasted to walls, and the banners waved above crowds often outlive the policy arguments that inspired them. They distil complicated political struggles into a few sharp words and images.
  They are the visu
  
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• West London Orbital railway plans take another step forward

  05-03-2026 11:32 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Plans for the proposed West London Orbital railway linking Hendon and Hounslow have taken a step forward after £6.65 million was secured to progress the next stage of planning.
  West London Orbital map 2026 (c) TfL
  If built, the West London Orbital could run up to six trains an hour and provide ten new interchanges with rail and Underground services, alongside four new stations. Plans currently include four new stations at Old Oak Common Lane, Neasden, Harlesden and Lionel Road, while some
  
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