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• Eastcote tube station gets step-free upgrade planning permission

  22-10-2026 15:00 via IanVisits
  
  West London’s Eastcote tube station has been granted planning permission for a step-free upgrade, but it still needs funding to proceed.
  Eastcote tube station
  However, securing planning permission now can help speed up the process once funding is found and also helps secure it, as Transport for London (TfL) can carry out the works quickly.
  Eastcote tube station was built between 1937 and 1939, is Grade II Listed. It is a particularly important example of a well preserved historic London Underg
  
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• A rare chance to see Hokusai’s complete Mount Fuji series in London

  22-10-2026 13:00 via IanVisits
  
  Three of the one of the most famous images in the art world have gone on display in a one-off exhibition that points out that they were just one in a series of 36 artworks about something else.The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, and while our eyes focus on the wave looming over the boat and the fishermen caught in its grasp, the print is really about something in the background… Mount Fuji.
  The print is from the series known as the Thirty-six Views of Mount F
  
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• TfL earns £1.1 million from Turkish Airlines’ Elizabeth line advertising deal

  22-10-2026 11:00 via IanVisits
  
  You might have seen some large adverts appearing on the Elizabeth line recently, and they’re all part of a year-long campaign promoting Turkish Airlines.The campaign mixes banners at the bottom of station roundels with, in some places, very wide banners showing fictional timetables in a sort of tube moquette colour scheme.
  It’s now been confirmed that Transport for London (TfL) is earning £1.1 million from the campaign.
  In exchange, the airline gets its banners on up to 60 roundels across t
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Meanwhile Gardens, Paddington, W10

  22-10-2026 08:00 via IanVisits
  
  This substantial park runs along the Grand Union Canal and sits on land cleared of slums in the 1970s, then saved from developers.After what is today the Grand Union Canal was completed 220 years ago, housing quickly lined its banks, with back gardens facing the canal, and the area around it slowly filled in. Because the canal was for industrial use and not the pleasant landscape we have today, the surrounding area was fairly working-class, with cheaper homes.
  With urban decline after WWII affec
  
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