One Word Sunday The statue of JB gazing up at the magnificent roof at St Pancras is a tribute for the work he put in during the 1970s to help save the fabric of the station and the Midland Grand Hotel from demolition. Middlesex by John Betjeman Gaily into Ruislip GardensRuns the red electric train,With a… Continue reading Poetic
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One word Sunday
Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 5)
Even a London walking tour guide like myself can see the benefits of sitting in a tube train and making your way from A-B, or in this case A-B-A as you go full circle on the aptly named Circle Line. If you were to just sit on the train and do the loop it would… Continue reading Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 5)
Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 4)
Even a London walking tour guide like myself can see the benefits of sitting in a tube train and making your way from A-B, or in this case A-B-A as you go full circle on the aptly named Circle Line. If you were to just sit on the train and do the loop it would… Continue reading Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 4)
Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 3)
Even a London walking tour guide like myself can see the benefits of sitting in a tube train and making your way from A-B, or in this case A-B-A as you go full circle on the aptly named Circle Line. If you were to just sit on the train and do the loop it would… Continue reading Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 3)
Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 2)
Even a London walking tour guide like myself can see the benefits of sitting in a tube train and making your way from A-B, or in this case A-B-A as you go full circle on the aptly named Circle Line. If you were to just sit on the train and do the loop it would… Continue reading Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 2)
Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 1)
Even a London walking tour guide like myself can see the benefits of sitting in a tube train and making your way from A-B, or in this case A-B-A as you go full circle on the aptly named Circle Line. If you were to just sit on the train and do the loop it would… Continue reading Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 1)
Reversed
One word Sunday
To trains for Harrow and Uxbridge
Six word Saturday Taken during the last tour of TFL’s offices at 55 Broadway, soon to become a luxury hotel.
Station to Station (Part 2)
Continuing with the toponyms while travelling the Northern Line eastern section. Stockwell: Recorded as Stokewell in 1188. The name can be interpreted as “The stream with a footbridge consisting of a tree trunk” from the Old English Stock (trunk) and Wella (Stream) Up until the 1860s Stockwell was still a small rural village. The station… Continue reading Station to Station (Part 2)
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