Kew

[pvcdiva]

Jumping on the spotlight bandwagon, here I am joining this comm even though as of April 2005 I don't actually live in London anymore. I've added my 'hello' to the requested comments, but thought I'd put up an actual suggestion as well.

I do pop back to the Big Smoke on a regular basis, and am heading up this weekend.  SInce leaving the City I came

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[emmelinemay]

I would LOVE to join you, what an amazing idea! But i can't this weekend :( Do post when your next adventure is though, because i love the idea!

I really do have a Wrong fascination with the no longer existant tube stations.

This website is full of Interesting - http://www.underground-history.co.uk/front.php

[pvcdiva]

oh, me too. Maybe it's too much Neverwhere at an impressionable age...

It's quite hard now to get access to the abandoned stations, but by various nefarious means I am working on it! Maybe if the project gets enough attention I'll be able to swing permission.

I'll be up again in late March, so I'll plan out new tubewhore adventures to co-incide with that trip up to, and would LOVE company. A friend of mine has a film in the London Queer Film Festival at the NFT and he's taking me to the screening as his arm candy - no way I'm missing that! Will probably take a few more pics to collect Waterloo - have fond memories of the area as used to manage the IMAX cinema there

[emmelinemay]

my friend lourens has seen a whole bunch of them as he's worked for LU quite a few times. I used to try and get him to smuggle me in as a clipboard, but we never managed it :(

If you DO get permission, i would BEG to go with you.

Don't know if you've made it up the far end of the jubilee line, but canary wharf is CRAZY, it's cavernous on the inside, but on the outside sort of looks like teletubbies.

Gloucester Road is pretty good, there's often random art exhibitions there.

I love all those crazy tunnels around waterloo - i have loads of photos of the blue lights and random shots of the poems which i keep meaning to turn into Something Else but haven't got round to it yet.

[pvcdiva]

how funny you should mention Canary Wharf...

I was determined to get that one on a recent trip as a friend of mine wrote a Doctor Who book recently set around CW with me (or my namesake at least) as the Chief Baddie - yes! I got to be a Doctor Who Villain, even if only in print. So, naturally I had to stomp around in big boots and a pvc catsuit...

http://tubewhore.livejournal.com/5324.html

[peacockpunk]

Tubewhore is a fantastic journal! What emmelinemay said - seconded!

[pvcdiva]

woo hoo! thank you....

We shall have to organise a picnic underground somewhere. Had one on platform four of CHaring Cross station once. Station staff were baffled but indulgent especially when I handed round strawberry tartlets and clotted cream - suspect in today's terrorist alert sensitive times staff wouldn't be quite so accomodating even with fancy patesserie on offer...

I posted very briefly on tubewhore this evening to say I've made up some postcards based on one of the images I've made from Holborn tube. I'll mail you one if you'd like...emai laddy over on the tubewhore lj

[emmelinemay]

an underground picnic!!! i'm so down for that.

[peacockpunk]

So long as there's no wires sticking out of your Semtex Fancies, I'm sure you'll be just fine.

Yes, an email would be most handsome.

peacoqpunk@googlemail.com

[miss_soap]

I'd be up for some of this. Alas I'm away all next week, back in London 3rd March.

[star_threads]

I live in Richmond and I would absolutely love to meet up with you for the Orchid festival in Kew. I wanted to go last year but I was unable to make it.
FYI: The UK Govt are about to propose restrictions on photography in public places which could make street photography and documentary photography against the law. There's a petition on the Downing St website against
the Government's proposals to restrict the use of photography in public
areas.
Heres the link to the petition! Sign it and pass it on to everyone!
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/

[mlle_petal]

Err, read the guy's website-
(http://www.phooto.co.uk/rights.shtml)...it's not as imminent as people are making it sound - the guy is only anticipating such a law being tabled based on some vague proposal for photographers to have ID cards, and the govt still has nothing to do with it... I'm not signing because it's misleading and a bit scaremongering! (If that is indeed a verb at all...)

If I'm not working on the weekend I'd love to come look at flowers! I'll pop by your tubewhore journal, anyway :)

[emmelinemay]

the majority of the petitions on that website are a load of rubbish anyway!

A mix of hearsay, hysteria and downright sillyness!

[pvcdiva]

brilliant! - we're aiming to be there for around lunchtime, but I need to stop off at richmond first and 'collect' it...then with Kew station I'll have completed the bottom spur of that branch.

I'm away from my home email, but leave a comment here as to where would be best to meet you, otherwise, I have bright pink hair and glasses (loads of pics of me over at tubewhore ). I'm going Victorian, so look for the gal in the paisley bustle. Oh, and in RL I'm Sue.

[olfactoryshiver]

I have been to the Orchid Festival and it's absolutely brilliant. A day away from the bustle without having to travel too far. I would really recommend going on a walking tour. They're free and you definitely learn a lot.