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Wellcome Collection Announces Major Expansion

£17.5 million investment will expand the Euston Road attraction by 30%.

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Review: Brains @ Wellcome Collection

See them sliced, poked, scanned and prodded.

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Sunday Seasoning #107

A surprisingly attractive view of Euston Road.

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What’s for Lunch? The Gilbert Scott, St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel

The Gilbert Scott’s Express Lunch Menu makes lunch at this stunning restaurant speedy and more affordable.

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Refurb For Euston Station

New look for much-maligned station, and a sound installation to mask the sound of Euston Road.

The Great Dust Heap of King's Cross. Image from Wellcome Library.

Dirt @ Wellcome Collection

Exploring our relationship with muck and filth.

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Illumini Return With ‘Underground Christmas’ Show

Fans of the hypogeal rejoice. Illumini, who masterminded this summer’s Secret Subterranean London exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall, are back with more sub-surface showmanship. They’ve bagged the catacombs beneath St Pancras Church, Euston Road for an alternative Christmas grotto (almost apologetically entitled ‘Crypt-mas’). The torch-lit …

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Giant Headless Dog Stalks Euston Road

Photo by Anna Sayburn Reader Anna Sayburn (@bloomsburyblue on Twitter) sends in the above photograph, depicting a huge, headless canine being transported on the back of a truck along the Euston Road. What’s the story behind the forlorn four-paw: is it the star attraction for …

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Giant Chromosome Brings Medical Research To Euston Road

Chromos-home, sweet home. Plans for a new biomedical research facility near the British Library have been released. Shaped like a giant chromosome, the phrase ‘form follows function’ could scarcely be more appropriate. Four wings will house different research groups, with a central atrium designed to …

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Pathe Stock Footage of Old London (Part 4)

The old Mirror building on Holborn Circus, now the site of Sainsbury’s very different glass offices. Back when the world was young, and everyone thought the word ‘bloomers’ was a bit naughty, the Pathé company pointed its cameras at scenes both momentous and workaday. Much …

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Wellcome Image Awards 2009

As if you needed another reason to go to the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road, here are 20 more. The Wellcome Image Awards, now in their tenth year, celebrate medical imagery. This years set of winners are particularly varied. Along side photos of a Nobel …