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• The London Buzz – 23rd Oct 2026

  23-10-2026 18:00 via IanVisits
  
  Olde London – Park Road, Regents Park between 1900 and 1908
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Around 211 households have been evacuated from two tower blocks in Canning Town due to serious structural issues. Newham Council
  A cinema in Romford is getting a “major refurbishment” including a new “largest screen” for the venue with “world-leading” technology.  Romford Recorder
  Who is London’s mystery Batman doing good deeds? BBC News
  Ealing Council is offering local businesses grants
  
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• Plans to widen the pavement outside the British Museum’s main entrance

  23-10-2026 16:00 via IanVisits
  
  The crowded pavement outside the British Museum could be widened to reduce congestion as an interim measure ahead of a proposed pedestrianisation of the entire road.
  Great Russell Street outside the museum (c) ianVisits
  Camden Council is working on plans for full pedestrianisation, but as a short-term improvement, it is proposing several smaller changes to the area outside the museum.
  The council will make several changes to traffic routes and improve some existing pedestrian crossings. It will
  
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• Tickets Alert: Williams F1 50th anniversary exhibition

  23-10-2026 15:00 via IanVisits
  
  London’s famous graffiti tunnel under Waterloo station is to host a Formula 1 exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Williams F1 racing team.Set in the railway arches, it harks back to the moment Frank Williams discovered co-founder Patrick Head working in a garage under a London railway arch and persuaded him to build racing cars instead.
  The exhibition, W50 Live: Williams, 50 Years of F1 Racing, will be an immersive, actor-led journey through five decades of the racing team. During t
  
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• It wasn’t all about tea: Science Museum examines the making of America

  23-10-2026 13:00 via IanVisits
  
  A red line on a map, a complaint about slow post and a few fragments recovered from a swamp help tell the story of America’s founding in a new exhibition. In the 250th anniversary of its independence from the glory that is us, the Science Museum looks back at the colonial years the effect of European arrivals in the Americas.It was a land where the natives saw themselves as stewards of the land, whereas Europeans saw it as a resource to be exploited. And a lot of the history of those times is
  
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• One last ride: Catch the last bus to run fully along Oxford Street

  23-10-2026 10:00 via IanVisits
  
  This weekend marks the start of the phased pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, as buses are progressively diverted away from the street.Permanent bus changes will begin in phases from 1am on Saturday 24 October, with diversions coming into effect route by route. TfL’s travel updates say that the final buses will run along Oxford Street just before 8pm on Sunday 25th October.
  According to the TfL travel guide, the last bus to run fully along Oxford Street from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arc
  
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