HS2 Update – 19 February 2021
Upcoming Network Rail works – early 2021
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In The Independent there is an article on the area between Grays Inn Road and King’s Cross Road, brought on by the plans to redevelop the site of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital on Grays Inn Road, and also Belgrove House (across the road from King’s Cross Station).
This area has, until now, been a lot less affected by the redevelopment and gentrification that has happened in the rest of King’s Cross and Farringdon. The area’s quiet streets are well worth a stroll around.
https://edition.independent.co.uk/editions/uk.co.independent.issue.030221/data/9730181/index.html
HS2 Protestors evicted from Euston Square Gardens
HS2 protestors are being evicted from Euston Square Gardens. They have set up a camp, fixed themselves into the trees, and dug a tunnel, to try to stop HS2 from cutting down all the trees in Euston Square Gardens.
Some plans indicate that the Square might become a taxi rank.
HS2 Updates – December 2020
Open House 2020
The annual Open House festival allows people to view interesting buildings around London that are not normally open to the public, or that you might not have heard about.
https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/
This year’s event will be a bit different.
Instead of being just one weekend, the festival will go from 19 September to 27 September. There will be events, online events, booked tours, self-guided walks, and many more. The main Open House weekend will be 19 & 20 September.
Events in Camden include:
- Self-guided tours around Camden (both walking & cycling)
- Guided tour of Somers Town
- Edwardian Art & Architecture tour in Bloomsbury
- St George’s Church, Bloomsbury Way
- Shaftesbury Theatre , Shaftesbury Avenue
- St Pancras Chambers & Clock Tower, St Pancras Station, Euston Road
- Hampstead Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath Street
- Acland Burghley School, Burghley Road
- Fitzroy Park Allotments
- Warehouse refurbishment, 9 Jeffrey’s Place
- Photographic exhibition at Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Square
- Bloomscape online event run by John Birkbeck School of Arts
On This Day – 7 July 2005
Covid-19 Vaccine trial to happen at UCLH
According to this article in the Camden New Journal, 500 healthy staff at UCLH will take part in a trial of a Covid-19 vaccine. It will try to see whether healthy people can be protected from coronavirus by the vaccine.
Test samples will be analysed at the Francis Crick Institute in Somers Town.
We wish everyone all the best.
http://camdennewjournal.com/article/five-hundred-uclh-staff-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine
Things to do while isolated – Museums
London has many world-famous museums. We can’t go to them in person at the moment, but we can visit museums from all around the world -online!
This list compiled by TimeOut has links to virtual walk-throughs for several of the world’s best museums. These include:
- The British Museum, London
- Guggenheim Museum, New York
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Explore!
https://www.timeout.com/travel/coronavirus-virtual-museum-tours
The Conservation Volunteers Community Group Forum
Update: Apologies, this event has now been deferred until later in the year. We’ll tell you when we find out.
Dear all, you may be interested in the invitation below from The Conservation Volunteers –
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We have the The Conservation Volunteers Community Group Forum coming up and would like to spread the word as far and wide as we can.
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