Tag Archives: underground
Greenwich Tunnel, from the hip
Greenwich tunnel, November 1999 Too busy to scrape anything very interesting off the walls of the internets today, and off out later, so here’s something from one of the dustier corners of the hard drive. I took this picture whilst … more…
Ackroyd: Disappearances can be deceptive
Peter Ackroyd, on the pretext of reviewing Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances, stories of vanishings in London — strikingly, he barely mentions the book, and offers no opinion at all as to its quality — expatiates nevertheless on … more…
The enigma of Liverpool’s labyrinth
The enigma of Liverpool’s labyrinth I remember being told about these tunnels as a child. There was some suggestion that they were used to transport slaves around the city – a claim which has been denied, or at least disputed, … more…
Underneath
Underneath A rather lovely and atmospheric graphic novelette – novelette is my word of the day, since checking out the Hugo award site this morning – set in abandoned rail tunnels under the streets of New York, by Emme Stone. … more…
London blog map
I don’t remember if I blogged the nycbloggers map-guide a couple of weeks ago, possibly I did. Anyway, the redoubtable Cal Henderson has put together an equivalent for London which you can find here. I don’t know how many blogs … more…
London Underground Tube Station Maps
A collection of London Underground Tube Station Maps – actually a lot of these images are more graphical depictions of the layout of various tube stations in three dimensions, and some of them are disturbingly reminiscent of the horrendous dreams … more…
NYC blogging map
Well this is different – a blogs overview in which New York bloggers are mapped onto, well, a map, actually, of the NYC subway. Someone could do this for London, no doubt – but does it really matter exactly where … more…
London tube map, first derivative
Interesting new take on the London tube map from QuickMap – haven’t worked out what’s going on with it yet, except that there’s some reference both to geographical distances and frequency of service… also, the map includes overground rail services, … more…