There are many coat of arms on the walls of this building, these are the representative shields of each country that had students reside here during its first years. Quite a number of these are former Commonwealth countries, and perhaps more surprising, there are some countries that no longer exist. These shields at the International […]
Today is the anniversary of the topping out of the BT (or Telecom) Tower and for some its still known as the Post Office Tower. Besides the images showing early designs for the tower itself, the structure was going to be known as the Museum Radio Tower. The rather grandiose name came from the fact […]
Being the second part on how Euston got a new tube entrance. This post features the actual work to build the new entrance itself. In the first part we looked at the long term preparation works – with a substantial part of that work involving the filling in of the old taxi rank entrance building […]
Tower Bridge’s one-two-five (125th) anniversary is upon us and this post discusses the bridge’s ‘one thro’ five’ – a subject that’s never been written about! What’s that then? Its the furthest Tower Bridge can be seen from central London. Inevitably its a view straight down the the river through five main Thames crossings. The one […]
Being the one about Euston’s new tube entrance and its a special two-part article. The entrance has been open nearly two months and a look is taken at how construction of the new entrance came about. A large part of it is actually work for HS2 thus any ‘improvements’ is essentially a misnomer. The old […]
There are many coat of arms on the walls of this building, these are the representative shields of each country that had students reside here during its first years. Quite a number of these are former Commonwealth countries, and perhaps more surprising, there are some countries that no longer exist. These shields at the International […]
Today is the anniversary of the topping out of the BT (or Telecom) Tower and for some its still known as the Post Office Tower. Besides the images showing early designs for the tower itself, the structure was going to be known as the Museum Radio Tower. The rather grandiose name came from the fact […]
Being the second part on how Euston got a new tube entrance. This post features the actual work to build the new entrance itself. In the first part we looked at the long term preparation works – with a substantial part of that work involving the filling in of the old taxi rank entrance building […]
Tower Bridge’s one-two-five (125th) anniversary is upon us and this post discusses the bridge’s ‘one thro’ five’ – a subject that’s never been written about! What’s that then? Its the furthest Tower Bridge can be seen from central London. Inevitably its a view straight down the the river through five main Thames crossings. The one […]
The famous (since 2004) bridge was dismantled and taken to Portsmouth where it currently resides at Fort Cumberland in Eastney. Few know its there. It seems the stored remains are not even labelled as Brunel’s bridge. At the time of its dismantling there was every promise it would be stored for a short while and […]
The Coventry Canal opened on this day in 1769, that’s 250 years ago. Its architect, James Brindley, worked on the scheme for a few months before being sacked. It must be the only occasion which this most notable engineering genius was told he was no longer wanted. Despite that the first part of the canal […]
The Coventry Canal was one of the country’s earliest waterways to be opened following the success of the Bridgewater Canal. The section from Coventry to Atherstone was opened in 1769, and the rest of the canal followed as time went on eventually bringing it a total of 27 miles to Fradley junction (not forgetting the […]
Does anyone ever wonder where all the docks around Canary Wharf get their water? The liquid stuff doesn’t grow on trees like the money does lol! Seriously, there has always been some form of pumping in these docks (as in the other London Docks such as St Katherine’s and Royal Victoria and all the others […]
Over three weekends in August 2019 some of the ‘Go Boats’ on London’s canal system became Good Hemp Boats – and this is what this is all about! Over these three weekends people were able to hire a Good Hemp Boat, along with a steerer, free food and drinks. Labelled on Twitter under the hashtag […]
Every year our railway stations have xmas trees (or Eiffel Towers if they so wish!) But what were those decorations in these stations past Christmases like? Austere. Boring? I think you’ll find things were often far bigger than what can be seen nowadays… We start with a major London terminus that no longer exists, excepting […]
The mysterious Helch continues to spread his word across London and the south of England. I did a small run on the trains/tube and found other examples of Helch’s work. I have posted these here. This fresh quest began because I wanted to capture the huge work which has been on the side of a […]
They haven’t closed Euston station – not yet! The HS2 machine is still marching on relentless however as reported sometime back it all depends on the Oakervee report. They were not actually planning on closing the station completely! Nevertheless things have met their end regardless and one of the bigger victims of HS2 was the […]
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