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• New video shows the nearly finished Brent Cross West station

  23-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A video of the nearly completed new railway station at Brent Cross West in North London has been released by the local council, showing how the station will look when it opens in a few months time.
  (c) Barnet Council
  The new Brent Cross West station sits between Cricklewood and Hendon stations and will be served by Thameslink trains, with up to eight trains an hour at peak times. The station will also be able to accommodate the planned West London Orbital (WLO) line if it is built, providing add
  
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• The London Buzz – 21st Sept 2026

  21-09-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Old London – Acre Lane in Brixton, London, around the early 1900s
  Today’s London news round-up:
  ‘Cyclists don’t stop’: disabled residents frightened of floating bus stops as council urged to reject them  Hackney Citizen
  She had no heating. It was December. The council took four months to visit Putney News
  Warren Street Tube noise waking residents in the early hours  Fitzrovia News
  Gallows Corner has fully reopened to traffic more than a year after the clos
  
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• Tickets Alert: Open days at Greenwich’s Admirals’ House

  21-09-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The usually private Admirals’ House at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich will be open for a few days this Christmas for people to wander around and photograph.
  (c) Old Royal Naval College
  One of the oldest surviving parts of the site, Admiral’s House, overlooking the Thames, was once the residence of the Governor of the Royal Hospital for Seamen.
  Dressed for the holidays, all four rooms of this historic house will be adorned with decorations, allowing visitors to explore a bui
  
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• Specialist train deployed to prevent c2c and London Overground delays

  21-09-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers on c2c and London Overground’s Mildmay line could benefit from fewer delays after specialist equipment was used to identify potential overhead line faults before they cause major disruption.
  Greater Anglia train equipped with PANDAS-V on the London Overground (c) GBR Anglia
  That’s because a Greater Anglia train fitted with the monitoring technology travelled over both routes on two Sundays in July and August, gathering information about the condition of their overhead elec
  
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• Handel treasures go on display for London museum’s 25th anniversary

  21-09-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Handel Hendrix House is marking the 25th anniversary of its opening after successfully saving the building from partial demolition, with a new exhibition of loaned artworks rarely seen outside their usual homes.The exhibition, which runs throughout the building, tells a series of stories about the music Handel wrote within its walls and performed as he became Georgian London’s go-to composer and most celebrated musical personality.
  His importance is highlighted in a painting of the Roy
  
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• TfL to build 53 new toilets for London bus drivers

  21-09-2026 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is to build 53 new toilet facilities for bus drivers over the next three years, as part of efforts to ensure suitable facilities are available on every London bus route.The announcement follows a recent strike threat over conditions for bus drivers during heatwaves, which saw an agreement to install air conditioning in drivers’ cabs.
  TfL says it will invest a further £6 million in driver welfare facilities during the current financial year. The programme wi
  
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• London’s Alleys: Terrett’s Place, Islington, N1

  21-09-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This rather shabby-looking short passageway off Islington’s Upper Street has an unexpected gem with a Dickens link in the corner.This part of London began developing in the 1720s, but even a century later, it was still largely fields, with houses lining only the few main roads.
  Terrett’s Place is developed by now, but was always what it is today – a tiny little corner passage behind the back of a couple of shops. If it was ever expected to get larger with future housing develop
  
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• Free immersive dining experience coming to Shoreditch

  18-09-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy a free meal, then there will be a free three-day immersive dining experience in Shoreditch next month.
  Lurpak 125 Good Food Vault
  It’s a publicity event by Lurpak, but free food is free food —  so over two hours, you’ll be able to taste meals from the past 125 years of dining in the UK.
  The tasting menu travels through select defining eras of British cooking, covering the 1900s, the flavour rebellion of the 1960s, the good-food indulgence of the 1980s, and vir
  
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• Tate Modern to stage large Monet exhibition in 2027

  18-09-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tate Modern is about to stage a Monet exhibition, presumably hoping to avoid the huge fuss about the price of tickets the last time a gallery put on a Monet exhibition in London.
  The Saint-Lazare Railway Station, 1877
  Staged 100 years after the artist’s death and featuring more than 60 paintings, Tate Modern says that its show will be the UK’s largest presentation of Monet’s work in nearly a decade.
  And a decade ago, the National Gallery took a lot of brickbats for its £2
  
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• Tickets Alert: Walk through the Postal Museum railway tunnels

  18-09-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Postal Museum has announced October dates for its after-hours Tunnel Walk events, including two tours on Halloween (Saturday, 31 October), offering visitors the chance to explore London’s shadowy Mail Rail network on the spookiest night of the year.
  (c) Postal Museum
  The 1.2km walk takes guests deep underground, over tracks, into tunnels, and onto platforms usually off-limits to the museum’s visitors.
  Tunnel walkers will explore the abandoned Mail Rail platforms, left as they wer
  
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• Tove Jansson’s Moomins, lovers and island life explored in new exhibition

  18-09-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition exploring the life, relationships, and career of Moomin creator Tove Jansson will open in London this autumn.
  The Moomins (c) Moomin Characters
  The exhibition will be held at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, and they say it will be the first UK exhibition dedicated to Jansson’s work as an illustrator and the first major display of her original artwork in Britain for almost a decade.
  The last was at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2017.
  This new exhibition will bring
  
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• The London Buzz – 16th Sept 2026

  16-09-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Old London: Wimbledon Windmill
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Putney Pusher suspect, 44, ‘found dead at home’ nine years after woman shoved under bus Mirror
  Council tax in Wandsworth will double this April unless central government reverses its funding cuts, the council’s finance chief told councillors last night. Putney News
  Heathrow’s third runway cannot be approved without changes to current climate policies, the government’s advisers have said. BBC News
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• How a Leicester Square dinner could get you Bayeux Tapestry tickets

  16-09-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you really want to see the Bayeux Tapestry in October, you could, if you don’t mind having supper as well.The Whitcomb restaurant inside the Londoner Hotel on Leicester Square offers a deal that pairs a visit to the Bayeux Tapestry with an à la carte lunch or dinner. You need to book a meal from their à la carte menu – so not the fixed or set menus, and hence a bit more expensive – and a ticket to see the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition is included with the meal.
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• Step-free access comes to Northolt tube station in west London

  16-09-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After a lengthy construction project, Northolt tube station has now gained step-free access with a new lift and walkway.The station has a modest ticket hall entrance on a busy road, then steps down to an island platform with trains on either side. Facilities-wise, there is a glass waiting room on the platform, a ticket office, some toilets, and a bike store.
  Many other stations that add a lift from the ticket office to the platform have managed to find enough space at the end of the platform nex
  
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• Francis Barber – Britain’s first known Black schoolteacher honoured with London plaque

  16-09-2026 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first known Black schoolteacher in British history has been commemorated with a plaque at the City of London house where he lived as a servant, friend and eventual heir to Dr Samuel Johnson.Francis Barber was born around 1742 on the Orange River sugar plantation in Jamaica. Enslaved from birth and given the name Quashey, he was brought to England at about the age of eight after the plantation was sold. Here, he was baptised and renamed Francis Barber.
  Barber eventually joined the household o
  
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• Inside the Natural History Museum’s room sealed off since WWII

  16-09-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large room in the Natural History Museum that’s been closed since WWII has finally reopened to the public as a new gallery.The once-hidden gallery sits just above the museum’s main entrance and, in size and location, mirrors the minerals gallery on the second floor of the museum’s main Waterhouse building.
  Historically, it served as both an osteology (skeleton) gallery and a mammals gallery. After the Museum’s original herbarium was damaged during the Second World War,
  
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• Vodafone takes up to €1.1bn hit from Drahi’s German broadband deal

  16-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Patrick Drahi’s sale of 50% stake in OXG will deprive joint venture partner Vodafone of potentially substantial future earnings
  
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• The London Buzz – 15th Sept 2026

  15-09-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Old London: Opening Stockwell tube station 4th Dec 1890
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A pro-Palestine activist who spray-painted slogans on to a statue of Sir Winston Churchill has been found not guilty of criminal damage. Standard
  Miniature model maker Dean Sarsfield writes about his hobby, which recently had him downsize a much-loved Holborn pub — and now has him nominated for a prestigious art prize. Londonist
  Sadiq Khan has said he will continue “banging the drum for London
  
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• Night time Halloween trail coming to Kew Gardens

  15-09-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Kew Gardens is going spooky next month with a Halloween-themed illuminated trail.
  Pumpkin-Scarecrow (c) Ollie Dixon
  From Friday 16th October, there will be a 1.5 km trail through Kew Gardens, including Dracula’s Lair, a haunted Cursed Tomb, a dark Medieval Dungeon, and a mysterious Forest Ritual tucked away among the trees.
  Elsewhere, an imposing executioner stands guard in the Medieval Dungeon, Dracula hides in the shadows of his lair, and a horned ritualist conducts a spooky woodland cer
  
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• London goes Bayeux Barmy with beers, teas and two more tapestries

  15-09-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London is going a bit Bayeux Barmy at the moment, with more tapestries on display, teas and beers all jumping on the Bayeux Bandwagon.
  The Beer TapestryOpposite the British Museum is, or more correctly was, the Museum Tavern pub, but for a few weeks it’s The Beer Tapestry pub, having been renamed after a tapestry that’s hanging inside the pub.
  The pub, run by Greene King Brewery, commissioned the artwork to tell the history of beer brewing in England over the centuries. To mark the o
  
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• Exhibition shows off when hospital surgery really was a theatre

  15-09-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The operating theatre is one of the most familiar settings in medicine, although most people would prefer not to encounter one while conscious. A new exhibition at the Hunterian Museum now takes a look at this rarely seen space where experts work while we slumber.
  The exhibition opens with a painting of the room that gave the operating theatre its name – as originally they were theatres with seating around the sides, for medical students, but also often the curious public.
  And as you will
  
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• Telenor charged with aiding crimes against humanity in Myanmar

  15-09-2026 11:57 via ft.com
  Norwegian authorities say telecoms group handed sensitive customer data to military junta in wake of 2021 coup
  
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• Norway’s telecoms firm charged with aiding crimes against humanity in Myanmar

  15-09-2026 11:57 via ft.com
  Norwegian authorities say telecoms group handed sensitive customer data to military junta in wake of 2021 coup
  
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• GWR’s unusual route to keep trains running during Paddington closure this Christmas

  15-09-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  GWR passengers are getting an early warning that there won’t be trains between Reading and Paddington over a couple of weekends later this year. However, to keep passengers moving, some will be diverted to Euston instead, creating a particularly interesting rail diversion.
  GWR train at Euston (test train on 4th Sept 2026)
  It’s all because repairs to the interestingly named Dolphin Junction will cut rail traffic just outside Slough. The junction allows fast and slow trains to cross be
  
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• Dutch start-up completes funding round for encrypted silicon technology

  13-09-2026 21:51 via ft.com
  Fortaegis claims it can create ultra-secure computer networks by harnessing the unique digital fingerprint of chips
  
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• A decade of London’s bus hopper fare

  12-09-2026 09:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s Hopper bus fare turns ten this weekend, having been used for more than 1.4 billion free bus and tram changes since its introduction.
  Mayor Sadiq Khan at the launch of the Hopper Fare in September 2026 (c) TfL
  Launched on 12th September 2016, the fare lets passengers paying by Oyster or contactless make additional bus and tram journeys without paying again, provided they touch in within an hour of their first journey.
  The original version permitted one free transfer. It was expande
  
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• Tickets Alert: Free open day to Capel Manor gardens

  11-09-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Capel Manor Gardens, a landscape training college at Waltham Cross, is having a free open day in October to visit its 30 acres of gardens.
  Japanese garden (c) Capel Manor
  Dotted around the estate are 40 separate managed gardens, including historical walled gardens, a holly maze, a mini-zoo, a lakeside garden, trial gardens, and a cactus house.
  The gardens are open year-round, but they charge an entrance fee to pay a visit. However, on Saturday 3rd October, the gardens will be open to the public,
  
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• Rare breed sheep are being used to graze Hampstead Heath

  11-09-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Five rare-breed sheep have returned to Hampstead Heath as part of a conservation project exploring how traditional grazing can help nature recover in London.The flock of Norfolk Horn and Oxford Down ewes, on loan from Mudchute City Farm, will graze the Heath’s anthill meadow each day until Monday 21st September.
  Sheep were once a familiar sight on Hampstead Heath, but grazing ended during the 1950s. Their return forms part of an ongoing programme to revive traditional land-management techn
  
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• This week’s theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct

  11-09-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This week’s sale and discount theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct.
  On stage at the Shaftesbury (c) ianVisits Beetlejuice The Musical
  It’s showtime! Beetlejuice The Musical has arrived in London
  From £25 – SAVE UP TO 63% Moulin Rouge! The Musical
  Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular, spectacular Moulin Rouge! The Musical
  From £30 The Devil Wears Prada
  Elton John’s new musical The Devil Wears Prada is now playing in the W
  
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• Confident ‘everywoman’ strides onto Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth

  11-09-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A confident young woman in a vivid blue dress has strode onto Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth as the latest temporary artwork to occupy the spot.The nine-foot-tall painted bronze sculpture depicts a Black woman stepping purposefully forward in platform shoes, her head held high and her dress caught in motion. Rather than commemorating a monarch, military commander or another famous figure, she represents an ordinary young woman making her way through the modern city.
  The artist, Tschabala
  
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