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• The London Buzz – 20th July 2026

  20-07-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Old London – Clapham Park Road circa 1900
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A mum-of-two says she feels “victimised” after claiming her housing association told her children’s toys must be removed from a communal garden following a request to install a trampoline. News Shopper
  Lea Bridge Road shisha bar forced to turn music down Waltham Forest Echo
  Plans have been revealed for a major development that could bring hundreds of new homes, co-living apartments, shops and pu
  
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• London is getting a new museum showing off Roman and medieval fortifications

  20-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London is set to gain a new museum later this year, when an important section of the Roman Wall and a medieval bastion are opened to the public.
  From a previous visit (c) ianVisits
  The remains were discovered in the 1900s during the construction of a Post Office building on the site of a former monastery near St Paul’s Cathedral. At the time, archaeological remains did not enjoy the level of legal protection they do today, and the monument came close to being demolished before being saved.
  
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• A colourful exhibition of Afghanistan’s disappearing textile traditions

  20-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If someone said Afghanistan, you’d probably conjure up a lot of images, but maybe not an image of skillfully embroidered clothing. And that’s what’s on display at the SOAS Gallery at the moment.Drawing primarily from the Karun Thakar collection, alongside loans from the V&A, the exhibition brings together around 100 embroidered objects spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather than presenting Afghanistan as a single cultural entity, the displays reveal the dis
  
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• London’s Alleys: Victoria Passage, St John’s Wood, NW8

  20-07-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This short industrial passage can be found in the genteel housing around Regent’s Canal in St John’s Wood and is both old and modern in its layout.The original Victoria Passage was a long, back-of-house mews passage that ran east-west behind the houses and was built in the early 1800s, as London expanded over the fields that had long dominated the area. That mews, later renamed Victoria Place, still exists, but you’d not recognise it today as massive rebuilding around the area
  
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