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• Developer wants to cut museum space in favour of student housing

  09-07-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A property development in the City of London that will include a new permanent home for the Migration Museum is seeking to reduce the museum’s size, although it says this is with the museum’s consent.
  (c) 3XN, Migration Museum and Dominus
  The museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. It will include an educational outreach programme to engage with diverse communities across London and
  
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• Charing Cross station closing for three weeks later this month

  09-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There are just a couple of weeks to go before Charing Cross station closes for nearly three weeks due to maintenance work on the railway tracks.
  Charing Cross station (c) ianVisits
  From Sunday 26th July to Sunday 16th August 2026, both Charing Cross and Waterloo East stations will close to Southeastern services while a £20 million upgrade is carried out to the track, platforms, and structures in and around the stations.
  Additional weekend closures will take place before and after the main
  
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• TfL to shut Oyster Photocard website for eight days for system upgrade

  09-07-2026 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is warning customers that its Oyster Photocard website will be unavailable for more than a week later this month while the ageing system undergoes a major upgrade.
  60+ London Oyster photocard (c) TfL
  The Oyster Photocard online service will be taken offline from 16th to 24th July to allow TFL to carry out maintenance and upgrade the back-office system that supports Oyster Photocards. The upgrade is intended to improve the reliability of the service, with TfL saying the
  
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• A Victorian archive room becomes London’s most atmospheric exhibition

  09-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to step through a normally locked metal door and enter a preserved world, little changed since its construction in the 1850s.This is one of the remaining fireproof storerooms from what was, at the time, the national archives held at the Public Record Office, known as the “strong-box of the Empire”.
  And at the moment, it’s open to visit because an audio artwork is taking place inside. The art is made up of people reading out extracts from letters that tell
  
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