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• Tickets Alert: Perivale Wood’s 2026 bluebells open days

  19-03-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A usually closed nature reserve in west London will open for two days in April so the public can see the wood carpeted with bluebells.At 27 acres in size, Perivale Wood sits just next to the Central line railway and is one of the oldest dedicated nature reserves in the UK. Set up as a bird sanctuary at a time when all around here were fields, it was an unusually farsighted vision of how urban sprawl could someday leave no large swathes of woodland for birds.
  Now, each spring, the woods are blank
  
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• World’s largest private Victoria Cross collection finds new home at National Army Museum

  19-03-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  After leaving the Imperial War Museum last year, the world’s largest private collection of Britain’s highest gallantry medals is set to return to public display in London.
  National Army Museum
  Lord Ashcroft’s collection of Victoria Crosses (VC) and George Crosses (GC) has found a new home at the National Army Museum, restoring public access to the medals after the closure of the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum in September 2025.
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• Two Tates, one Hockney: Artist to headline major 2027 exhibition season

  19-03-2026 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There’s going to be a double dose of David Hockney coming to the Tate galleries next year, with a takeover of Modern’s huge turbine hall, and an exhibition down the road at Britain.They are part of the year of exhibitions announced by the Tate galleries.
  Tate Modern highlights
  Among the headline exhibitions, Monet: Painting Time (from 25th Feb) will be Tate Modern’s first show dedicated to Claude Monet. Drawing on new research, it will explore how the artist captured the passag
  
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• Cricklewood bus shelter sprouts a living roof in climate trial

  19-03-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new bus shelter in north London is testing whether a sedum-covered roof can bring a little biodiversity — and rainwater control — to the capital’s streets.The bus stop, born out of the BarNET ZERO Challenge, where local residents put forward their best ideas for tackling climate change, can be found on Cricklewood Lane.
  It’s superficially a normal bus shelter, with the usual advertising board and seating, but it also comes with a low-maintenance sedum-covered roof. At t
  
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