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Friends of Nursery Row Park
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We're volunteers working to protect/enhance Nursery Row Park with events, campaigning, & collaboration. New friends welcome. Designated parkland: SINC and BOL
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Faraday gardens playground improvement consultation
@walworthsociety.bsky.social @walworthse17.bsky.social

engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/folder...
Playground Refurbishment We are planning improvements to Faraday Gardens Playground, and we want to hear from you. The project will: Refresh the current playground Install new play equipment Improving access for all users Share your views by scanning the QR code or visit: engage.southwark.gov.uk/folders/parks Your feedback will help shape the space for everyone.
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England
Exclusive: Groups including British Cycling call for active travel strategy to be put on equal footing with road and rail
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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jonkingh.bsky.social
This is so disgusting.
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here!
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Time For Change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration system
A new report from prominent migration expert Zoe Gardner has been enthusiastically welcomed by senior Labour backbenchers.
www.anothereurope.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Great win by brave residents, but appalling behaviour from #Lendlease

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The tenants forced to pay for their richer neighbours’ gyms | The Observer
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December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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#Blackfriars Road #SE1 new constructions in the wintery afternoon sun
Three huge glass and steel buildngs at the south of Blackfriars bridge, plus a massive new tower under construction, in the pale horizontal winter afternoon sunlight against a rainy grey sky A major new development is appearing on the site of the former Prince William Henry pub on Blackfriars Road, with a large lift core (which is still under construction) about 10 floors above the body of the building. The winter afternoon sunlinght is hitting the higher floors against a grey sky A bright red rickshaw is waiting at a red light at the crossroads of Blackfriars Road and Union Street/The Cut, looking at Southwark tube station, shortly to have a large building constructed above it. Two big blocks (Colombo House and Styles House) are shining in watery late afternoon winter sun
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Ste Foy de Montgommery old railway halt, Calvados
An old railway halt in the winter afternoon sun, alongside the bicycle path converted from a former railway
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#Blackfriars railway bridge
The winter afternoon sun is lighting up the complex latticework of the underside of the wrought iron bridge
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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emergencybod.medsky.social
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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A new sauna has been opened within a former maintenance area in Ruskin Park - run by community-sauna.co.uk, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, who have taken on a 5 year lease. Daily except Tuesday, with sessions bookable online at www.community-sauna.co.uk
The entrance gate to the new sauna in Ruskin Park. Sited in a fomer maintenance area, there is a high green fence and a rustic new gateway into the site
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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jim.londoncentric.media
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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St Michael's Hill, #Bristol
The Scotchman and his Pack pub, abandoned for over a decade. On a very steep street, with the ground floor front wall coloured pink, an old pub still with the pub sign, with part whitewashed windows and looking sorry for itself. The pub sign shows a silhouette of a man with a wedge-shaped chock, and scotchman here refers to the person who stopped carts rolling down the very steep hill A view looking downhill on a very steep street in Bristol. Georgian houses on both sides of the road, with an almshouse in the foreground. The pavement is steeply raised up on one side of the road, and has frequent steps
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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walworthsociety.bsky.social
Don't miss the Walworth Society's early November newsletter just out.

Lots going on across SE17!

mailchi.mp/27bc27b22829...
Latest Walworth News - Early November 2025
mailchi.mp
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Three shades of #autumn with the #Ginkgo biloba trees on Brandon Street
Four ginkgo trees in autumn - one coloured yellow, one pale green and two dark green, set against a red tiled facade of a building
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Telephone ROD 3350 off Walworth Road
Long-disused shop front sign showing telephone number from the 1960s or earlier - ROD 3350
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Enjoyable and effective traffic calming in Italy near Avellino
A sheperd is smiling broadly as his flock, herded by several dogs, moves against traffic on both sides of a main road, ensuring that all cars come to a halt, and everyone enjoys the moment. Some sheep are on their hind legs eating leaves from a hedge in a neighbour's garden.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Red and white high-speed train waiting in the early morning at Modane station with mountains shrouded with light cloud behind against a blue sky Red and white high-speed train waiting in the early morning at Modane station facing towards Paris, with snow-capped mountains shrouded with light cloud behind against a blue sky
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Great trip on the Avellino to Rocchetta S. Antonio line yesterday in Southern Italy to celebrate 130 years since its opening.
Many thanks to @ogilvie.org.uk for great work publicising the www.fondazionefs.it/it/treni-sto...!
View of the village of Cairano perched high on a rocky hill above the Ofanto valley The mayor of Morra de Sanctis greeting the train's passengers at the tiny station of Morra/Teora Rear driving cab of the diesel railcar ALN668 3141 showing lots of dials and levers, looking much older than it is View of the reservoir Lago di Conza from the train, showing a low water level after the summer
October 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Great to see these proposals. Terrible to see the Labour leadership in Westminster are already briefing against it. What the hell is the point of them?
A spokesperson for Westminster council said: "There have been no consultations or discussions on these proposals, and there are categorically no plans from the council to pedestrianise Soho."
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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tomashirstecon.bsky.social
To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Honestly feel like Labour on immigration is a political and moral crisis with potentially scary consequences
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Oct 20
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Oct 20
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#vimoutiers #ami8 #citroen 2025
A white Citroen Ami 8 is parked next to a building dating from the 1950s, across from the main church in Vimoutiers, Orne, Normandy. The picture was taken in 2025 but could have been taken any time in the last 50+ years
October 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Last vacant site at Lend Lease's Elephant & Castle.
Huge building site, cleared and fenced off, but with nothing inside but buddleia and a balcony/cladding panel from the latest block at Elephant & Castle sitting alone
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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jamesrball.com
This is one of the issues London Labour insiders raised with me in this piece on Labour & London – Labour is taking the votes of the capital for granted, and is about to impose major local government austerity on councils who were hard hit first time round.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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makespaceforgirls.bsky.social
Girls' use of parks drops after the age of 11. At a time when they should be gaining independence, many girls start to avoid parks.

Why? They feel that parks aren’t for them - there is nothing to do. Also, many state they don’t feel safe.
October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM