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WEBDfT and TfL had summer talks about Crossrail 2 future. by Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter 7:00 am, Wednesday, 4 September 2024. Independent, non-profit, community newspaper and news site serving the London district of Fitzrovia.
Historic Fitzrovia pub opens after lengthy closure and major ...
WEBNov 26, 2021 · The George Pub aka the Glue Pot on the corner of Great Portland Street and Mortimer Street. The George public house on the corner of Great Portland Street and Mortimer Street in Fitzrovia has re-opened this week after a lengthy closure and a major refurbishment.. Publican Dominic Jacobs and culinary director James Knappett will follow up the opening of the pub on the ground floor with the ...
From ‘sisters of the poor’ to ‘serviced apartments’
WEBNov 25, 2022 · The end of charity. The former All Saints Home convent at 82-83 Margaret Street. Photo: Fitzrovia News. A public exhibition of plans to redevelop a former church building in Margaret Street will go on display this month, showing off pre-planning application designs to turn the former convent into serviced apartments, offices and a wellness centre.
Khan's Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan is missing important ...
WEB2 days ago · by Linus Rees 1:25 pm, Friday, 20 September 2024. Oxford Street. Buses, taxis, all motor vehicles, and cycles will be banned under plans by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. Photo: Fitzrovia News. This weeks’s surprise announcement by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan of his intention to pedestrianise Oxford Street by …
Fitzrovia business group to hold ballot for another five-year BID term
WEBJun 20, 2022 · Photo: Fitzrovia News. The Fitzrovia Partnership will hold a ballot in July to secure another five-year term for its business improvement district, backed by a business plan that presents more-of-the-same and little in the way of change or imagination. Ballot papers will be sent out this month to the 200-odd businesses in the Camden part of ...
Fitzrovia Community Newspaper Archive – A digital collection of …
WEBJun 5, 2023 · A digital collection of Tower, Fitzrovia Neighbourhood News, and Fitzrovia News.
News Archives - The Fitzrovia News
WEBAug 15, 2024 · by Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter 8:28 am, Friday, 23 August 2024. In the pink. Voi, which operates e-scooters, now wants to provide rental e-bikes. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Thousands more rental e-bikes are coming to London’s streets as a new company attempts to compete for riders — and with a …
The activist’s tale: How Fitzrovia changed over the past sixty years
WEBSep 20, 2022 · Sixty Years in Fitzrovia: Understanding Fitzrovia — the Story of a Takeover. A talk by Max Neufeld, Fitzrovia Activist. Tuesday 27 September 2022 at 6pm. At Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA. Admission Free. Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
History notes: the St Giles Rookery - The Fitzrovia News
WEBNov 12, 2021 · On the south eastern edge of Fitzrovia around the still existing Bainbridge Street and Dyott Street was, until the mid-19 century, a jumble of densely populated and shambolic dwellings known as the St Giles Rookery. Author Adam Crymble, in an academic paper for Urban History journal, asks why it became the city’s most notorious slum by the ...
Understanding Fitzrovia – the story of a takeover
WEBApr 13, 2023 · Max Neufeld speaking at Holborn Library in September 2022. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Local resident and activist Max Neufeld regaled an audience last autumn with tales from his 60 years in Fitzrovia, and his descriptions of the recent and many pestilences that have been rained down on the neighbourhood and which are destroying its special character.