The Morden Extension, conceived with a visual conformity to the platforms:

In order, heading south from Clapham South down to Morden:


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The seven stations between Clapham South and Morden were opened as a block as the Morden Extension in 1926 and were all designed by Charles Holden.   There's a deliberately modern feel to the architecture, and a uniformity to the look of the platforms with green, white and black tiling that we shall see repeated station to station on our journey ( Read more... )

Awake at six in the morning I lie in the pre-dawn gloaming listening to the irregular drip and splash of rain through guttering and downpipes.  A sky pearl grey and bleak, a damp-in-the-bones sort of day, of wet streets and people scurrying for shelter and pedestrians dodging the malice of taxicabs driving too fast through puddles.  Restless, I ( Read more... )

Travelling through last weekend all the poster boards had been stripped back, unintentionally making a Pollock-Braque mash-up of torn colours.  Accidental bricolage. Shabby, but then that suits the creaking system, and much nicer than being advertised at.


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Due to getting sucked back into the work mentality, we're late getting up to Camden to met
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...the last time I went through Waterloo for this project it was in a rush and I was busy being fascinated with playing on the Waterloo & City Line.  It amuses me as it's a whole Underground line with just two stops on it; Waterloo to Bank, Bank to Waterloo, back and forth, back and forth...

My last job before leaving London was as a Duty Manager ( Read more... )

The market at Borough is actually closer to London Bridge Station than Borough tube, but it's as good an excuse to collect the station as any.

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Years ago, while at Uni I lived over in New Cross, close to where I was studying at Goldsmiths College. Trains from New Cross mainline station go straight into London Bridge, so whenever paying for my studying by temping, chances were I'd end up travelling through the station. Like Waterloo, twice a day London Bridge sees a vast migration of ( Read more... )

On Saturday, L and I, despite being warm and comfy, and possessing of a large pile of Docty Who DVDs and takeout menus, dragged ourselves out into the weather to attend the Reclaim the Night march from Trafalgar Square up to the ULU Union. We were lazy and skipped out the beginning bit and just went straight to Goodge Street Tube (also nearest ( Read more... )

The Jubilee Line wants to be silver, but on printed maps this means it is grey. Which is appropriate as the building material of choice for the recent extension from Westminster is concrete. I love it though.


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