Deputy Mayor of London for Transport, Val Shawcross CBE, and Cllr Govindia, leader of Wandsworth Council, welcomed 26 Chelsea Pensioners aboard for a trip to City Hall at the official celebration of the new Battersea Power Station River Bus pier yesterday. Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official opening of the pier, a party […]
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The Hayward Gallery has announced that London’s largest free contemporary arts festival Art Night has chosen Nine Elms, Battersea and Vauxhall for its first foray into south London. Art Night returns next July with its most ambitious art trail to date. Running along the Thames from Southbank Centre through Vauxhall and Nine Elms to Battersea, […]
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In the run up to Christmas, Battersea Power Station will be handing over its pop-up spaces to a host of independent makers and designers: from hand-poured candles to ceramics, prints and pillows, as part of a programme of purpose-designed retail spaces at the main entrance to Circus West Village. The pop-ups will be an opportunity […]
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Tunnelling work completed as boring machines break through at Kennington. Two 3.2km tunnels have been created from Battersea to Kennington, via Nine Elms.
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A suffragist leader who will soon become the first woman to be honoured with a statue in Parliament Square has inspired the name of one of the machines that will dig London’s new ‘super sewer’. Tunnelling for the Thames Tideway Tunnel, which will help tackle sewage pollution in the River Thames, is due to start […]
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To mark the completion of the Battersea Power Station chimney rebuild, the team at Battersea Power Station announced that the two riverfront chimneys, the north-west and northeast chimneys, will be lit up every evening from 4 November until this Christmas. The inaugural switching on of the lights will take place on 4 November, ahead of the […]
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