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Walking London: rivers and tubes
‘What a bounteous banquet of costly viands is spread before an ardent-minded, grateful-spirited Perambulator!’ Old Humphrey’s Walks In London ‘One must perambulate early and late in all weathers, to...
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How to take your appendix out on the Piccadilly Line
Advice (click to enlarge) from The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok, 1974.
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150 years of the London Underground
To mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, here is a piece I wrote for Time Out in 2007. It was, on the face of it, a stupid idea. Running trains, and steam trains at that, in tunnels...
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London’s strangest race: meeting the Tube Challenge
‘s It’s probably London’s strangest race. The Tube Challenge first took place in 1959 and since then hundreds of people have attempted to visit each of London’s 270 tube stations on the same day – it’s...
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British Undergound Press
Fans of the London underground should head to a small exhibition at the A22 Gallery on Laystall Road between Farringdon and Holborn (hey, let’s split the difference and call it Midtown). That’s not the...
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