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• The London Buzz – 18th June 2026

  18-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The view from St Bride’s church tower
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Anger among Underhill residents over Barnet Council’s imposition of parking charges outside a parade of shops in Mays Lane is said to be a likely reason why parking signs have been obliterated with black paint. Barnet Society
  The leader of Enfield Council has decided to withdraw the civic centre’s legal defence against a judicial review case brought by campaigners wanti
  
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• Jewish Museum London awarded £1 million grant while it looks for a new home

  18-06-2026 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Jewish Museum London, which closed in 2023, has been given a £1 million grant to support its education and outreach work while it searches for a new permanent home, the government has announced.
  (c) Jewish Museum London
  The funding was unveiled by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy during a visit to the launch of Two Rooms, the museum’s new temporary exhibition space at JW3 in north London.
  The museum closed in July 2023 after its income plunged following the pandemic, and it chose to
  
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• Pontoon Dock DLR upgrade delayed by a few months

  18-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to upgrade Pontoon Dock DLR station has been pushed back by a few months while detailed design work and costs are still being estimated.
  The station needs upgrades to handle projected passenger demand as new housing is built nearby, but the current design can’t accommodate it. The upgrade will add six new escalators to reduce the load on the existing lifts, along with a new mezzanine level and street level improvements.
  The station today (c) ianVisits
  Upgraded station plans (c) Weston
  
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• Stranger Things meets South Bank in Anish Kapoor’s new exhibition

  18-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Stranger Things seems to have broken into London as monumentally ugly sculptures of blood and gore are filling the Hayward Gallery at the moment.This is actually the new Anish Kapoor exhibition, and features some of his latest works dripping in red, as well as stalwarts of his mirror work, and more controversially, his Vantablack works. A giant squashed balloon fills the opening gallery, which is technically impressive and contrasts nicely with the concrete stairs, but candidly, it’s a bal
  
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• London Museum confirms November opening date for its new Smithfield home

  18-06-2026 11:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Museum (formerly the Museum of London) has confirmed its delayed reopening date will be later this year, on 28th November 2026.
  The London Museum (c) Secchi Smith
  The former Museum of London closed in December 2022, and its replacement site near Farringdon station was due to open in 2024. That was later pushed back to early 2026, and the opening date has been confirmed as 28th November 2026.
  The original £337 million budget to convert the two old market buildings into the new mu
  
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• London Underground roundel unveiled on Japan’s Tokyo Metro

  18-06-2026 10:52 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The familiar London Underground roundel has appeared deep beneath Tokyo’s streets, after Transport for London (TfL) donated a specially designed roundel to mark the approaching centenary of Japan’s first subway.
  Sir Sadiq Khan and Akihiro Kosaka (c) Tokyo Metro
  The London-style roundel was unveiled on platform 2 of Ueno Station on Tokyo’s Ginza Line during a ceremony attended by London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, Tokyo Metro President Akihiro Kosaka, and TfL Commissioner Andy Lord.
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• Winning design chosen for Clapham railway bridge makeover

  18-06-2026 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway bridge next to Clapham High Street and Clapham North stations is to get a makeover following an architectural competition to select a design.
  (C) Makower Architects
  The design by Makower Architects reclads the railway bridge with a new metal skin bearing the town name, and also adds that long-standing stalwart of railways – a clock tower.
  The judges praised the team’s vision for the railway bridge and clock tower, recognising its potential to create a distinctive gateway
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Sam Philp Recreation Ground, Hayes, UB3

  18-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park next to the M4, north of Heathrow Airport, with lots of trees planted a couple of decades ago to mitigate the noise from its noisy neighbours.
  It also lost the Frogs Ditch.As a plot of green, it’s always been fields and never built on. As Hayes town centre slowly expanded after the arrival of the railways, it took an incredibly long time to reach the site of the pocket park today.
  Even in the late 1930s, most of the area was still fields, and was part of Dawley Manor
  
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