Be sure to breathe in that polluted air.I love the Underground and always travel on it when I visit London.
Trains, lifts, escalators, stations, maps, loads of my favourite things all at once.
It's difficult not to, that's true.
Various old TV shows were filmed around the derelict Docklands. You can find The Professionals or The Sweeney charging around there in Ford Granadas on YouTube and UK Gold.
I do sometimes watch some old episodes of TV shows just for the nostalgia of seeing how the place used to look. It is almost impossible to believe that it is the same city. But I do not know about the Wapping jibs - Churchill's funeral being a little before my time! What did they do? Dip?Various old TV shows were filmed around the derelict Docklands. You can find The Professionals or The Sweeney charging around there in Ford Granadas on YouTube and UK Gold.
I bet you know what the Wapping jibs did during Churchill's funeral.
Yup, 36 jibs all dipped together in salute as Churchill's coffin was carried by aboard a survey vessel called Havengore.
All I really remember is that my mother HATED Churchill, so he was never mentioned in our house. I may well have seen something about the funeral subsequently of course.
Good on yer ma.
Just back from a visit to London. I went on a behind the scenes tour of Charing Cross, which was ok. But like an idiot I neglected to ask about any ghost stories. Damn and blast.I love the Underground and always travel on it when I visit London.
Trains, lifts, escalators, stations, maps, loads of my favourite things all at once.
There's always something to spoil your day.
They were paid to do it apparently.
Yup, they didn't work weekends so as the funeral was on a Saturday they were brought in to do it.
ooh, it's got Down Street, Dover Street and Brompton (Road) too, all closed stations on the Piccadilly line that disappered in 1932-3. Designed by Fred Stingemore (always enjoyed his name
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I’m not convinced by the Terris one. I think they’ve just made it fit. I did start a thread about if so called famous ghosts where who they are claimed to be or just normal people.ooh, it's got Down Street, Dover Street and Brompton (Road) too, all closed stations on. the Piccadilly line. Designed by Fred Stingemore (always enjoyed his name
My work relates to the history of the Underground. We were looking for credible-ish Tube ghost stories around 2017-8, but none of them were very compelling, and none have named witnesses or specific dates (except maybe Gary Numan, will have to read that story.) The William Terris thing doesn't really make sense - he died 10 yrs before Covent Garden station opened, and the Adelphi Theatre where he was killed is not very close.
I hid.
It's an effect Gordon has on women.
I went to school with the great nephew of Harry Beck. My best mate he was. I think “Uncle Harry” died in the early 1970’s so I didn’t get to meet him but did get to meet his younger brother – my school mates Grandad.
Beck died in 1974. His last published map was 1960, but he continued tinkering and drawing up ideas for improvements for ages afterwards, cutting out pieces and arranging them on his living room floor. He's sometimes portrayed as a map obsessive, but he had a wide range of other interests. Since 2001 all tube maps have a bit of text at the bottom, saying they are based on his original design.
On the other hand, he also wanted to recruit the remains of the Wehrmacht in 1945 to continue Operation Barbarossa.
In my recent trip where it was practical to do so I always took a bus rather than the tube, to allow me to experience things rather than be stuck in a soulless cylinder seeing nothing.
In my youth, I travelled about on the Underground all-day-long, five day's a week as a messenger boy! Got to know London very well back then, quite a number of times I innocently walked into 'non-train users areas,' and seeing deserted underground stations completely empty, eerie and void of anything except old tiles on the walls, and posters from yester-year.
I actually enjoy London - it's a huge change from my locality with its very small population so you see the same people every day (when you see anyone at all), so I appreciate the whole culture-change. It's actually refreshing to be able to walk down a street and not be engaged in conversation with people you know every few steps. The anonymity is pleasant, as is things being open 24 hours and lots of alternative ways of passing the time with galleries and museums and suchlike.
Yes - there is that side to it of course. But my time there was when I was young and money ~ or lack of it was an issue, so no chance for shows and the like, as when I finished work it was catch the train (above ground), and head for home.
I hate shows. I only go to free stuff (or museums and galleries). There's just so much to SEE, as opposed to my locality, where we've got a couple of museums of rural life, but they all involve driving miles to get to. You can't wake up on a Sunday morning and think 'I fancy a bit of people watching, an ice cream by the river and a pop into an art gallery for a poke around.' Not without getting into the car and going to look for all those things. In London I can walk out and it's there.
Sounds like heaven to me. Once I retire I hope I never have to visit London ever again.
