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01 Prologue – By conserving and explaining the capital city’s heritage, The ’s collections are a constant reminder that over 01 ’s Transport Museum offers people an understanding of the 02 Director’s summary the past two centuries, transport has been key to supporting capital’s past development and engages them in the debate about London’s position as a world city. Transport has been essential 04 The Museum at the future. We adopt the highest standards of curatorship and communication, and aim to be the world’s leading museum of to both promote and respond to the vitality and viability of 05 The Covent Garden Project urban transport. London. Understanding and assimilation of that transport 14 Stakeholder news London’s Transport Museum operates two sites, at Covent Garden heritage is a great challenge for a modern, civilised city. Our 16 A Museum for learning and Acton, offers online access to information and collections, Museum enables us to both look back and look forward at and manages the Safety and Citizenship Initiative for Transport for 18 Recent acquisitions London, to respect the influence of the past and to see the London. The Covent Garden site is currently closed for a £20m perennial importance of transport to this great city as it moves 19 Museum overview refurbishment and enlargement, reopening in late summer 2007. The new Museum will: further into the 21st Century. 20 The Friends of London’s Transport Museum 21 The Friends Corporate Members 2005–2006 Create a theatre for the 22 Museum staff 2006 public understanding of 24 The Museum Depot, Acton Town transport in the complex 25 Museum operating accounts 2003–2006

26 Museum programme 2003–2006 life and identity of London, Peter Hendy 28 Outside events 2003–2006 past, present and future. Commissioner of (TfL) Redefine the concept of a Review 2003–2006 Review | narrative history museum as a forum for information and debate about London’s

past, present and future. Museum Transport London’s 02 closed itsdoors. to visitorsuntilSeptember2005,achievinghighcustomer satisfactionratingsuntil it in Covent Garden. Despitethework thishasinvolved, theMuseummanagedtostay open foundations, bothconceptualandphysical,have beenlaidfortherefurbished Museum The three years April2003–March 2006have beenatimeofgreat upheavalasthe has beendocumentedbyour This once-in-a-lifetimeproject damaged roof slates. replace corroded cast-iron and before, andtodiscover and have notbeenabletoreach the roof andstructure thatwe allowed us toaccessareas of re-emerged. Highscaffolding removed, thehistoricbuilding As fittingsandfixtures were market hallbeganin earnest. back the building to a Victorian Then thebusinessofstripping redundant displays. followed byskiploadsof van loadsofexhibitswere were hauledofftoActon and Street ashistoricvehicles appearance inWellington low-loader madearegular haste inautumn2005.The demolished withalmostundue keeping up-to-date– were the smallhoursafterevents, technical faults,cleaningin since December1993–fixing nurtured for362days-a-year The olddisplays,whichwe had our spend. the maximumvaluefrom and questionedtoextract have beenreviewed, revised and designsdeveloped. Costs ideas testedonfocusgroups, and borrowed from others, selected from ourcollections and refined endlessly, objects Museum hasbeenwritten The storylineofthenew been through manyiterations. panels ontheroof –have hire spaces,photo-voltaic basement, shop,corporate the lecture theatre inthe structures –mezzaninefloor, detailed designsofthenew been ahive ofactivity. The Meanwhile theMuseumhas This Review features hiswork. around himturmoilreigned. discreetly intheshadows as sketching patientlyand We are indebtedtohim, the transformationprocess. us auniqueperspective on Decant Sketchbook hasgiven artist BruceRowling, whose own photographersandbythe

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03 London’s Transport Museum | Review 2003–2006 No museum can stand still – and certainly not a museum devoted to the dynamic story of London’s transport. The Museum opened in Covent Garden in 1980, and since then more than 5 million people have visited us. We had a major redisplay in 1993, opened the museum the Depot at Acton to the public in 1999, and have developed a 04 at covent garden London’s Transport Museum is a museum for everyone. website that 50,000 people and rising visit a month. 05 Between April 2003 and September 2005 when we closed for refurbishment, we welcomed almost 600,000 people from The Covent Garden Project is the next chapter in the story. A major part London, the UK and abroad through our doors. Half of these of the project is creating new displays to attract first-time visitors from visitors were female, and a third under 16. More than 25,000 London’s diverse populations, as well as appealing to people who school children visited us each year, while we go out to a already know and love London’s Transport Museum. We are also further 90,000 young people as part of our outreach programme. renovating our Grade II-listed Flower Market building, making it a better To achieve all this, the museum opened for seven days a week, environment for exhibits and visitors alike, while creating more space for 362 days-a-year. We try very hard to be accessible to all our project a theatre, larger shop and café. visitors, from wherever they come. Key elements: Our major refurbishment of the Covent Garden site will take • construction of a new mezzanine gallery over the existing train table this even further. We hope to attract at least a further 40,000 • creation of a new basement and mezzanines incorporating a 122-seat visitors a year when we reopen. So as well as working with theatre and a larger shop and café transport historians, designers, architects, disability and access • a new exhibition with 3000 square metres of new displays consultants and all the other people who go into making a new • radical improvement of the building’s environmental performance. museum, we have been talking to our visitors. We are proud to have consulted more than 10,000 people in the run-up to our redevelopment, which has helped us to determine how best to bring the story of London’s transport history alive.

No museum can 2003–2006 Review stand still, not | least a transport

museum Museum Transport London’s The Covent Garden Project We will use the What we hope to achieve and why The Museum has set six objectives The Museum believes that that raising our average visitor much-needed for the Covent Garden Project. the Covent Garden Project will satisfaction score by 5 points They are: help increase our visitors by to 85. 06 extra space to 40,000 people a year, 10,000 of 07 • to tell the story of London as them from overseas. It will make The Project will also allow us to an international city, seen the collections physically and improve the internal environment make a visit through the development of intellectually easier to access, and of the Museum, so we can bring its transport, past, present attract new people from more of our fragile collections a more enjoyable and future different backgrounds. It lets us onto display while saving energy • to make more imaginative use create a lively forum on the past, through passive climate control experience of the Museum’s designated present and future roles of public systems and alternative fuel collections , better sources. • be physically, intellectually reflecting the remit of Transport and culturally accessible to For London and make informed And finally, we believe it will make all visitors international comparisons. us financially more sustainable. • to promote learning about The Museum has forecast London, safety and citizenship The Project will increase the significant increases in retail • to create a unique, enjoyable overall floor area of the Museum income, admissions and corporate experience by a quarter. We hope to use this events as a result of this Project. • to sustain both the Museum much-needed extra space to building and organisation. make visiting a more enjoyable experience not only by improving We need to set objectives so we our displays but other facilities know where we are going and how such as the shop, café, education to measure our progress. rooms and private dining, thereby It lets us create a lively Review 2003–2006 Review | forum on the past, present and future roles of public transport in London London’s Transport Museum Museum Transport London’s The Covent Garden Project A better environment for everyone The new galleries will Improving the environment of the building was a major concern for us. There are many objects that the Museum cannot show because they are show how public vulnerable to the large swings in both temperature and humidity we 08 currently experience in our building. We were also anxious not to drive transport makes London 09 up running costs as we added 25 per cent to the floor space of the Museum. And like all responsible organisations, we are mindful of our duty to London’s environment at a time of climate change. a vital and viable city

The will reduce the Museum’s energy consumption and carbon emissions. This will be achieved by:

• adding insulation to reduce heat loss, and shading the roof to reduce light levels and heat gain • creating natural ventilation by putting photo-voltaic panels on the roof, which will generate up to 17% of our electrical needs.

The Energy Saving Trust (funded by the DTI) has provided a £120,000 grant towards the inclusion of the ‘solar’ panels. The London Climate Change Agency has approached the Museum to make it a high profile showcase for the use of photo-voltaic power generation and other low CO2 emission technology. The has expressed his The Covent Garden Project will usher in a new style of narrative history Other displays will allow visitors to encounter the world’s first support and in March City Council awarded planning museum, drawing together collections and mixed media which will underground steam and electric tube railways. It will introduce some We are mindful consent for the photo-voltaic scheme to proceed. acknowledge that people learn in different ways. The displays will tell surprising and influential people, as well as presenting an enormous the story of London’s transport through individuals and their scale model of London, which visitors can use to explore the city. experiences, exploring the influence of the past on both the present and The final galleries will look at the future of , and of our duty the future of our city. some future scenarios and visionary proposals.

to London’s The new Museum will include 3000 square metres of displays about the social history, growth and development of London and its transport over environment at the past 200 years, as well as comparisons with other ‘world’ cities. The Review 2003–2006 Review

opening gallery, the World City Gallery, will show how public transport |

allows cities such as London, New , Paris, Delhi, Shanghai and Tokyo a time of to stay on the move. climate change London’s Transport Museum Museum Transport London’s The Covent Garden Project A grand day out In autumn 2004, There’s more to a museum visit than new displays, even if they are the heart of the experience. Modern need good facilities, and the Museum visitors’ expectations of these keep rising. 10 selected Wates as 11 The Project includes a new shop spread over two floors, with an expanded range of the Museum’s world-famous gifts, posters, toys, models and souvenirs. There will be a smart café developed with the main contractor Searcy’s, serving coffee, lunches and suppers. The seating for the café, designed by Lumsden Partnership, will feature a reworking of a favourite old moquette seat fabric design.

The new Cubic Theatre in the basement, is a 122-seat lecture space You can come to shop for talks and conferences, while our education facilities will be and eat as well as visit substantially upgraded. the Museum Review 2003–2006 Review

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London’s Transport Museum Museum Transport London’s The Covent Garden Project

The timetable The Project Team

The contractor The state of the building The Project is overseen by the Museum’s Director. It is managed by a In autumn 2004, the Museum selected Wates as the main contractor. As work has progressed Wates discovered that vital repairs to the Project Director and the extended management team of the Museum, Wates went on site in April 2005 to get ready, and formally took historic structure were required. These extra works, started in October with advisors and an external consultant team. The team is currently 12 possession on 24 October 2005. 2005, have added both time and costs to the Project. Although this is made up of: 13 unwelcome, the works provide a once in a life-time opportunity to repair The archaeology the listed structure. Museum team Construction Advice During the excavation of the basement starting in April 2005, the Director Jim Evans (Epsilon Management Museum carried out an archaeological excavation of the site. The Covent Developing displays Sam Mullins Services) Garden area was part of Middle Saxon London, or Lundenwic, around The exhibition has reached final scheme design, and tendering started in Director’s PA Fundraising 600-800AD. For centuries the area remained undeveloped, until it July 2006. Fraser Randall was appointed in July 2005 as the Exhibition Liz Collins Judy Niner (Development passed into the estate of the first Earl of Bedford, who had served Henry Contracts Manager. The Museum team, working with Ralph Appelbaum Project Director/Head of Design Partners) VIII. The Bedford family developed the site as an exclusive residential Associates, has been researching, designing and developing content for and Displays Audience Research quarter and promoted the fruit and flower market. The excavation the new Museum for three years. Supporters and partners have also Belinda Betts Susie Fisher (Susie Fisher unearthed 17th and 18th century structures, pots, bottles and a contributed, and extensive public research has informed the new Project Coordinator Associates) possible bath house, as well as a number of cremation urns, beads and displays. Outline script and photo research are almost complete and Julie Vince (April 2004) Legal Advice Structural Engineers Editorial panel two burials from the middle Saxon period. A report on the findings is graphic art-working has commenced. Project Assistant Richard Cooke (Hammonds) Buro Happold The panel, chaired by Belinda due shortly. Vicki Goodfellow (October 2005) Exhibition Content Retail and Café Design Betts, is the final decision-making The opening Head of Business and Stephen Feber Lumsden Design Partnership body on the exhibition content, The Museum closes The building work will be completed by January 2007. The exhibition fit- Performance Design Gallery Curator Building Contractor style and approach. It includes The last public open day for the Museum was 4 September 2005. out will take approximately six months, with the Museum reopening to Chris Gilbert (March 2005) David Worthington Wates Construction Limited many of the Museum team and The Museum team started a five-week decant of the collections to the public in late summer 2007. Head of Systems and (Conran Design Partnership) the following: the Depot. Infrastructure Specialist consultants Rob Lansdown Design team Access 2D Curator Head Curator Architects All Clear Designs David Bownes Oliver Green Avery Associates Architects Lighting Registrar/Content Coordinator Head of Learning Exhibition Designers DHA Design Martin Harrison-Putnam Julia Fielding (May 2006) Ralph Appelbaum Associates Acoustic Lifelong Learning Manager Head of Marketing (London) Sandy Brown Associates John Claire Ingham Artwork Production Sound Consultant Education Officer (Schools) Retail Manager/Art Co-ordinator London’s Transport Museum Martin Pilton Sound Design Heather Review 2003–2006 Review Michael Walton Design Team Building Regulations Librarian | Project Management Approved Inspector Services Caroline Warhurst Advisors to London’s Drivers Jonas Building Conservation Stakeholder Relations Executive Transport Museum Quantity Surveyors Donald Insall Associates Justine Cooper Project Development Walfords Café and Shop Designers Geoffrey Marsh (Adrian Ellis Environmental and M&E Lumsden Design Partnership Associates) Consultants Café Contractor Max Fordham Searcys Museum Transport London’s ‘ has a great history The Museum’s list of supporters is drawn from across the transport as borne out by the old museum and we’re industry. We would like to thank all our partners:

here to ensure it has a great future too. Heritage Lottery Fund Biffaward Landfill Tax Tomorrow’s museum will look forward as well Transport for London Credit scheme 14 The Friends of London’s EvoBus (UK) Ltd An important role for London’s as back at the transport challenges faced by Transport Museum Peek Traffic Ltd Transport Museum is to act as the capital and I’m pleased to see Metronet Tube Lines Ltd National Express Group plc a forum for the transport supporting the project.’ Metronet Rail Alexander Dennis Ltd Garfield Weston Foundation Ltd Andrew Lezala, Chief Executive, Metronet Rail industry. It is also the place Museums and Galleries Conran Design Group where the public can learn Improvement Fund FirstGroup plc Viacom Outdoor Ltd Hammonds about plans for the future, in Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd Hyder Consulting plc galleries that demonstrate the The Museum has raised a further £3.6m from sponsors, trusts and ‘Tube Lines is working on the largest upgrade programme ever seen on the Tube. We are Other stakeholder activities Network Rail London Central/London General foundations. Tube Lines and Metronet Rail, the Museum’s Principal delighted to partner with London’s Transport Museum and welcome an involvement with Luke Rees-Pulley Trust (Go-Ahead) new investment in transport Sponsors, have given nearly £1m and are our largest commercial In 2004 the Museum worked with and Bombardier Parsons Brinckerhoff Ltd McNicholas plc sponsors. Trusts and foundations have pledged a further £700,000. its major project to transform the Covent Garden site. As Principal Sponsor, we are already Transportation on a design initiative with London schools. Viacom SAP UK Ltd -a member of since 2000. Viacom Outdoor has sponsored the Museum’s new Viacom Outdoor working closely with the Museum on new displays which will take a fresh and exciting look Outdoor has collaborated with the Museum on three projects funded Toyota (GB) plc ComfortDelGro Gallery and Cubic Transportation Systems the new 1220-seat Cubic at what will be happening in the future for transport in the Capital, including our own by the Arts and Business New Partners scheme. The Copyrighting Goes Axon Group plc Ringway Group Ltd The £20m+ Covent Garden Project would not have been possible Theatre. The Luke Rees-Pulley Trust is funding elements aimed at Underground competition encouraged 150 young professional Capita Stagecoach in London without the support of many partners in the transport industry. children. On top of that, the Friends of the Museum, made up of 68 visions for delivering an outstanding Tube for London.’ copyrighters to optimise use of cross-track Underground poster sites, Corus Transdev plc We are very grateful for their help. corporate partners, have given £700,000. Terry Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, Tube Lines winning an award at Viacom for its best initiative of 2005. In 2006, two Energy Saving Trust Volvo Ltd poster design competitions challenged 200 students across London to EDS Ltd Wrightbus Ltd 20 £1.72 million In July 2003 the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) awarded the Project Tube Lines, Metronet Rail, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Toyota, Capita, Corus Network Rail is sponsoring SAP UK, Axon Group, Peek In total we have successfully create artwork for an advertising campaign launching the new Museum. 4-Rail £9.47m in two stages. Transport for London (TfL) immediately and EDS have become Future Partners, working with the Museum on a content in three galleries to Traffic, McNicholas and secured more than £13m for the £3.03 million pledged a further £5.1m if the Museum raised an additional £5m new 18-month exhibition Visions for London’s Future, which will launch enable the Museum to represent Ringway Group have provided Project and TfL’s support has Stakeholders and sponsors ‘Cubic Transportation Systems has been from industry, trusts and foundations. the Museum in summer 2007. all areas of public transport sponsorship that supports the taken this to £18.1m. A Covent £0.7 million providing ticketing systems to London within London, including the entire redevelopment project. Garden dinner and auction will be The Friends of London’s Transport Museum main-line rail story. Many of the Conran Design Group, Hammonds held on 20 September, at the £5.1 million Transport for 30 years. Through the Transport for London country’s top bus operators and and 4-Rail have offered in-kind Floral Hall at the Royal Opera (pledged on the provision the Museum raises introduction of the system, manufacturers have become support to the Project. David House, as part of an ongoing the remainder from industry) 10 equipment and gating, Cubic has initiated a Content Partners, supporting Worthington, the Managing fundraising programme. £9.45 million the development of historic Director of Conran Design Group, Heritage Lottery Fund grant change in how people travel around London. content and acting as advisors is the Curator of the new Design We are proud to support the Museum and for the industry in the Museum’s Gallery and his company is in particular the Cubic Theatre and the new contemporary and futures currently designing the Museum’s galleries. World City gallery. activities it will enable in the future.’

0 Marcus Platts, Finance Director, Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd Funds already raised Funding still required ‘The new London’s Transport Museum will be state of the art and, like much of the transport system itself, something for the world to look up to. Viacom Outdoor is delighted to sponsor the Museum’s new Gallery and associate ourselves with the rich design heritage of the collection as we feel advertising imagery is fundamental to the whole look and feel of London’s transport system. We are currently involved in several joint educational initiatives which stimulate young people’s creativity and interest in advertising, art and design. We look forward to using the Museum’s new corporate hospitality space to host regular events and competitions.’ Mike Baker, European Marketing Director, Viacom Outdoor Ltd 16 17

Learning and education are at the heart of London’s Transport Museum. We are conscious that different people learn in different ways, so we constantly need to develop new ways to present our collections and knowledge. Recent developments include:

• The Museum Library – which holds the most comprehensive collection about transport development in London, including its social history. It is used by everyone from design students to people researching their family histories. It had a major revamp in early 2006 making it easier to use and a more pleasant to work in. We are constantly • Family sessions in local libraries – families have enjoyed discovering the history of London’s transport using objects such as developing new ways to ticket machines, hats, maps and photographs. We have also run craft sessions, teaching children to build model vehicles similar to those present our collections in our collection. Other activities have included reminiscence sessions at homes for the elderly using a handling collection as well as books and knowledge and photographs.

• TfL Safety and Citizenship – based at London’s Transport Museum, • New sessions at the Museum’s Depot – for Key Stage Two this TfL scheme promotes safe travel on and around the public (7-11 year old) schoolchildren launched in early 2006. These transport network. Children are especially vulnerable to transport combine object handling and costumed interpreters, giving accidents. The team has developed a programme aimed primarily at children a unique take on our historic collections. 11-year-old children to prepare them for independent travel. It also works with a number of secondary schools to address existing • In total, 15,016 pupils from 479 schools attended education transport problems. A website has been created (www.tfl.gov.uk sessions at the Museum. The Resource Desk dealt with 6,600 Review 2003–2006 Review

citizenship) to provide activities for children as well as materials for enquiries in the period. The Safety and Citizenship Team worked |

teachers. From April 2006 the service will work with all 11-year-old directly with an audience of 142,000 children. children in every year (approximately 113,000 children). London’s Transport Museum Museum Transport London’s Collections are what make museums unique. At London’s Transport Museum we were lucky to acquire a number of acquisitions significant objects to add to our collections in 2003-06. 18 19 When the new museum opens in 2007 there will be more than twice as • ’s 1951 proposal for the redesign of the Paris Metro map, The senior management team is responsible for strategic planning many objects from the collections on display at Covent Garden. based on the same principles as his classic London Underground and day-to-day operations at the Museum, in line with policies and Acquisitions help us to tell new stories and develop themes that the old diagram of 1933. plans approved by the TfL Board. museum was unable to explore in the past. • A 1930s Tri-ang dolls house which will help to show the way inter-war suburban housing development was shaped by transport. These The Museum is Registered and is an active member of the London Museums The Museum is reviewing its collecting policy in 2006 as part of its model houses were made by Lines Brothers, which opened the Hub, Association of Independent Museums, Museums Association and submission for the new Accreditation scheme run by the Museums biggest toy factory in the world near Morden in the 1920s. British Association of Friends of Museums. Libraries and Archives Council. • A detailed model of a London taxi converted to haul a water tender for the London Fire Brigade during the Blitz, donated to the Museum Members of staff are also active within the Covent Garden Area Trust, the Among the new pieces that will be on display are: in 2004. Covent Garden Community Liaison Group, the Transport Trust, the 24 Hour • A poster proof: Waterloo Station - Peace, by Helen Madeline McKie, • A poster promoting the new branch to Watford, Museum, the Museum Prize Trust, the Campaign for Museums, the UK 1948 (see below). opened in 1925, fills a rare gap in the museum’s archive. Registrars Group, Museums Computer Group, London Museums Librarians and Archives Council, International Association of Transport Museums, Association of British Transport and Engineering Museums, West London Museums Group, and a number of specialist subject networks, such as the Special Subject Network for Inland Transport, London Underground Railway Society and other transport-related associations, societies and trusts.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded a Collaborative Doctoral Award for a doctoral student to produce a thesis entitled Negotiating Urban Space: Public Transport, Migrant Strategies and Gender in London 1950-2005, a partnership between London’s Transport Museum and the geography department of King’s College London. Review 2003–2006 Review | London’s Transport Museum offers people an understanding of the capital’s past development and engages them in

the debate about the future Museum Transport London’s The Friends Corporate Members 2005–2006

DIAMOND BEX Contracts Bombardier Transportation UK Birse Metro CCS Group Group EDF Energy Powerlink ClearChannel UK 20 Metronet Rail Ernst & Young 21 PA Consulting Group Field Fisher Waterhouse Westinghouse Rail Systems Fifth Dimension Associates Freight Transport Association The Friends group is a registered charitable trust which provides GOLD PLUS Gee Construction the Museum with sponsorship funding and volunteer help, as well Capgemini Go-Ahead Group as allowing members to explore their interest in public transport. Deloitte Goldman Sachs International FirstGroup UK Bus Halcrow Group The Museum is fortunate in having an enthusiastic and supportive F P Herting & Son KPMG Friends’ organisation of about 1600 individual members. Around 68 Herbert Smith Lounsdale Electric transport and transport-related companies are members of the Nuttall Finchpalm LTI (London Taxis International) Corporate Friends (see opposite). The Friends group is the third largest Vehicles financial supporter of the Museum’s redisplay project, pledging GOLD Manatt Phelps & Phillips £700,000 in instalments over four years. ALSTOM Transport – Metro Trains Mane Rail AMEC SPIE Rail Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw In May 2005, the Friends were delighted to see their past investment in Angel Trains Millcroft Services plc the restoration of the Museum’s 1931 LT Scooter single-decker win four Arriva Morgan Est Rail major trophies on its debut appearance in the HCVS London-to-Brighton Cadbury Trebor Bassett Multiplex Constructions (UK) commercial vehicle run. The Friends have also secured a Project Planning Citylink Telecommunications Otis Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to investigate the feasibility of Cubic Transportation Systems Pemberwell Services restoring four of the Museum’s Q-stock District Line cars (dating from The Friends are Eversheds SGS Technology Project Services the 1920s-30s) to operational condition. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Siemens the largest donors Stagecoach in London The Friends also provide volunteer support to the Museum, helping to HSBC Thames Water conserve, restore and maintain items in the Museum’s collections. In to the Museum’s Hyder Consulting UK Tone Scaffolding February 2006, a dedicated, band of volunteers completed a four-year Parsons Brinckerhoff Washington Group International project to catalogue and conserve the Museum’s black-and-white photo redisplay project, St Paul Travelers Insurance Wayfarer Transit Systems Review 2003–2006 Review

collection. The Friends’ total donation of time and expertise amounts to telent communications YJL Infrastructure |

more than 10,000 hours in a year, equal to an additional six members of pledging £700,000 in Tube Lines staff. At a special event in December 2004, 30 Friends were presented HONORARY with certificates marking ten and, in four cases, 20 years of individual instalments over SILVER 4-Rail Scientific Services (Silver) voluntary effort. ABOUT Associated Newspapers (Diamond) four years Advantage Technical Consulting Viacom Outdoor (Gold) Members benefit from an active programme of meetings and visits, and Aon Capital Transport (Silver) an informative newsletter covering Friends’ activities and matters of Ashurst Felton Associates (Silver) Museum Transport London’s transport interest. 22 23

Director Retail & Merchandise Manager Curator (film & photographs) Design & Displays Manager Multimedia Developer Head of Learning TfL Safety & Library & Information Sam Mullins Mike Walton Simon Murphy Sau-Fun Mok Charles Dodgson Julia Fielding Citizenship Manager Services Manager Director’s Personal Assistant Senior Retail Assistants Curator (photographs) Design Studio Manager Lifelong Learning Manager Chris Nix Caroline Warhurst Liz Collins Tara Burnell Hugh Robertson Suzanne Davies Depot Manager John Bull Education Liaison Officer Librarian Museum Communications John Vince Curator Designer Richard Bench Schools Officer Rebecca Wakeman Helen Kent Assistant Retail Assistants (multimedia collections) Sylvia Martin Depot Assistant Heather Johnston Carron Littlejohn Bunny Soteriou David Bashi Anna Rotondaro Alick Matthew Interpretation Officer Office Support Manager Head of Security Sam Harrison Curator Display Team Supervisor Annette McCartney Sonia Bruce & Operations Chairman of the Friends of John Skinner (photographs & ephemera) Paul Leary Head of Marketing Interpretation & Technical Assistant Allan Brooker London’s Transport Museum Timothy Shields Display Assistant Claire Ingham Education Assistant (Safety & Citizenship) Security Operations Ian Arthurton Head Curator Curator Michael Beagley Media Relations Executive Felicity Premru Barry Price Supervisor Corporate Friends Liaison Oliver Green (Photos and Ephemera) Louise Lee Volunteer Coordinator Administrative Assistant Stephen Seymour Assistant Senior Curator Guy Howard-Evans Head of Systems Stakeholder Joanne Howe Jarrod Flack Security Operatives Review 2003–2006 Review

Becky Lee David Bownes DCF Project Curator & Infrastructure Relations Executive School Liaison Officers Aaron Gordon | Senior Curator (vehicles) Claire Dobbin Rob Lansdown Justine Cooper Information Team Supervisor Peter Challis Sarah Hicks Head of Business & Bob Bird Network Systems Manager Marketing & Janette Palmer Heather Doyle Mike Jaffa Performance Curator Project Director/ Bryan Wills Group Coordinator Museum Communications Chad Dunham Jim Knight Chris Gilbert Jonathan Riddell Head of Design & Displays Network Support Analyst Dawn Ross Assistant Nivashnie Padayachee Gary Stanbury Finance Manager Curator (collections care) Belinda Betts Neil Ellliott Events & Corporate Hannah Moss Luke Reynolds Gerald Underhill Terry Noonan Robert Excell Project Co-ordinator Communications Support Relations Executive Information Assistants Lindsey Whitehead Finance Trainee Collections Registrar Julie Vince Assistant Emily Mitchell Gerald Armin William Wybrew

Rufus Johnstone Martin Harrison-Putnam Project Assistant Paul Trumble Michael Dipre Museum Transport London’s Victoria Goodfellow Michael Kitchen Lesley Sullivan 24 Financial Year ending see note (1) 31.03.06 31.03.05 31.03.04 31.03.03 Notes to operating accounts 25 Visitor Nos (000’s) 97.5 255.9 215.5 196.4 Note 1 As the publicly accessible store for our heritage collection, the £000’s £000’s £000’s £000’s The Museum was closed to the public in Museum Depot in Acton preserves architectural fragments and Income September 2005 for refurbishment works and will not re-open until late summer models, artwork, enamel signs, engineering drawings, maps, Admissions 250 682 565 551 2007. However a retail presence was moquette fabric, oral history recordings, photographic negatives, Retail 1213 1429 1354 1296 maintained via rental of a smaller unit in Commercial and Licensing (7) 0 391 404 363 Covent Garden. rolling stock, posters, printed transport ephemera, uniforms Private Hire 35 127 54 106 and vehicles. Sponsorship 22 186 80 122 Note 2 Other Income 155 190 82 224 The deficit represents the net cost of providing the Museum service including The Depot with its large, open, humidity-controlled environment cares Total income 1675 3005 2539 2662 provision of the Transport For London for almost 98% of the Museum’s 400,000 items. It was opened in 1999 statutory function with regard to elements of its heritage collection. with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund. It offers 6500 square Less Cost of Sales 1233 1213 1049 977 metres of storage space for the Museum’s reserve collection half-an- Trading Expenses 178 76 52 489 Note 3 hour from Covent Garden. The net deficit is equivalent to the agreed Total 1411 1289 1101 1466 revenue grant provided through TfL by the GLA. The Depot is a treasure trove of London’s transport heritage. It has Contribution to operating expenses 264 1716 1438 1196

regular themed open weekends, as well as viewings arranged as part of Note 4 Operating Expenses In arriving at the deficit in Transport for our popular guided tour programme. The Depot is the focus for the Museum Operations 1321 1931 1399 1254 London group annual accounts the Museum’s invaluable volunteer force who provide assistance in Collections Management 692 603 555 539 depreciation charge is included. conservation and restoration, cataloguing, guided tours and research. Marketing 423 422 347 196 Administration 882 935 972 695 Note 5 The Covent Garden project consists of Building Accommodation Costs 879 1087 1252 1395 The Depot is also currently providing temporary accommodation for capital works to completely refurbish and Total operating expenses 4197 4978 4525 4079 refit the entire Museum. The project is most of the Museum’s collections from Covent Garden, while it is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, TfL and other 3rd party sponsors. closed for its major redevelopment project. Deficit on Operations(2) -3933 -3262 -3087 -2883 The Depot Functions undertaken on Note 6 behalf of TfL Group (6) 650 755 605 329 This represents the revenue cost of is a treasure trove functions managed by the Museum on Net Deficit (3) -4583 -4017 -3692 -3212 behalf of TfL. This includes the protection

of TfL intellectual property rights up to 2003–2006 Review | Depreciation (4) 403 519 570 564 31/03/2005, Safety and Citizenship and of London’s programmes. Covent Garden Project (5) In addition there were capital costs of £416k incurred against the Safety and Income -3608 -1200 0 0 Citizenship programme. transport heritage Expenditure 3766 828 573 0 Net total 158 -372 573 0 Note 7 The commercial and licensing department was transferred to TfL central at the end of financial year 2004/05. Museum Transport London’s Exhibitions since events annually in May, interpreting the Poetry alive Poetry alive Word on the street Lifelong learning study days 24 Hour London: BBC London photo national theme of Museums and Galleries 21 October 2003 22 June 2004 20 June 2005 and courses competition Month. In 2005 these included interactive Diwali storytelling History afloat Piccadilly style Adult Learners’ Week 16 April-8 June 2003 artefact sessions to celebrate the theme 29 October 2003 7 July 2004 22 June 2005 15-21 May 2004: A diverse range of 26 27 Children’s Underground exhibition ‘Objects of Desire’ at Public Bus bits A design for life Piccadilly style Open most hours participatory activities to introduce you to the 2 July-28 September 2003 Library and Central Library. 30 October 2003 13 July 2004 29 June 2005 Museum’s vast and unique transport collections. Artworks for all Word journeys Let’s all go down the Strand History afloat 15 October 2003-4 January 2004 In 2004 there were live poetry performances 25 November 2003 21 July 2004 13 July 2005 Word journeys SAA illustration awards 2004 throughout 2004’s programme as resident Trickett & Webb: designing transport art Trains, and traffic Green Line 75th anniversary 24 May 2005: Poetry writing and performance 28 January-14 March 2004 poet Abe Gibson celebrated the golden age 1 December 2003 18 August 2004 summer outing workshop for adults. Spring exhibition of London’s electric trams with performances Mind the doors, please! History afloat 17 July 2005 31 March-6 June 2004 of his latest work. 5 December 2003 8 September 2004 ‘London’s high street’ Transport women at war StreetWise summer exhibition Yes, I am a public servant – and so Street star, designed for purpose: 21 July 2005 3 November 2005: Study day at The Women’s 30 June-31 October 2004 Between 29 August and 4 September 2005 is the Prime Minister! the Routemaster ‘The Great Square of Venue’: Library, Old Castle Street, E1. Bloomin’ marvellous exhibition the Museum celebrated its final week before 31 January 2004 13 September 2004 Covent Garden central and east 17 November 2004-29 May 2005 closure with a Bob the Builder Week, which Betjeman’s Metro-land: “a city clerk Yes, I am a public servant – and so is 10 August 2005 Depot tours SAA illustration awards 2005 offered the chance to meet Bob and become turned countryman again” the Prime Minister! tour Tours provide a unique insight into the 26 January-6 March 2005 involved in a series of Bob the Builder themed 16 February 2004 26 September 2004 18 August 2005 Museum’s extensive collections and access to The word Underground exhibition activities throughout the Museum “He draws a lot, but he won’t speak!” London’s transport at war Metro-land walk collections not normally on display to the 7-30 June 2005 2 February 2004 9&10 October 2004 1 September 2005 public. They usually take place at 11.00 and It’s your city! Lectures, conferences and tours You’re a poet – do you know it? Every day except Christmas Taxis, tubes and Jews 14.00 on the last Friday of every month (except 13 July-21 August 2005 London through a lens 21 February 2004 8 December 2004 8 September 2005 December). During closure the Museum has 28 April 2003 London’s Transport in miniature open London’s transport in miniature at The subterranean railway also operated Depot tours on the last Saturday Events and activities The most famous map in the world weekend at the Depot, Acton the Depot, Acton 13 September 2005 of every month. There is always something on at the Museum 6 May 2003 6&7 March 2004 26&27 February 2005 Journeys of the heart for families. During term-time, younger A pictorial history of the A history of the London cab trade The voices of New Babylon 4 October 2005 Tours for visually impaired visitors visitors can participate in colouring activities metropolitan railway 22 March 2004 18 April 2005 Migration and modernity Gallery touch tours suitable for all ages are or gallery trails at weekends. A bumper activity 12 May 2003 Royal Society of Arts (RSA) tales 11 October 2005 available regularly for visitors with visual programme is available in school holidays, Fitness for purpose 250th anniversary 8 May 2005 Family weekend at the Depot, Acton impairments or learning difficulties both at the including numerous craft workshops. Annually 20 May 2003 1 May-31 October 2004 ‘The Great Square of Venus’: 22&23 October 2005 Museum. These tours include special access to in August the Museum holds a Be Safe! Week “Refrain from affectation Metro maps of the world Covent Garden central and west Keeping London moving – vehicles not usually accessible to the public. with activities themed to teaching young and conceited airs…” 5 May 2004 2 June 2005 transport staff at war people how to use public transport safely. 15 September 2003 175 years of the London bus 75th Anniversary of Green Line 9 November 2005 British Sign Language Review 2003–2006 Review | Funding the Underground: a history at the Depot, Acton coaches at the Depot, Acton Metro maps and architecture of the world interpreted tours The Museum launched the Museum and 22 September 2003 5&6 June 2004 4&5 June 2004 22 November 2005 Regular Depot guided tours are also available Galleries Month at the London’s Transport Sun a-shine, rain a-fall – Discover Metro-land Canal cruise London’s transport in miniature at the with British Sign language interpreters. If a BSL Museum on 5 May 2004, the year of the celebrating Black History Month 10 June 2004 12 June 2005 Depot, Acton interpreter is required for any tours or talks at 200th anniversary of the steam locomotive, October 2003 Word on the street, Cabbages and kings – 4&5 March 2006 the Museum, this can be arranged on booking 175 years of the bus and 50 years of the London Transport in the 1930s open typography’s contribution to the story of Covent Garden Tunnels, transport and trains tickets for these events. Routemaster. The national theme for 2004 weekend at the Depot, Acton the language of architecture 15 June 2005 at was Travel and Travelling. The Museum has 4&5 October 2003 21 June 2004 28 March 2006 Museum Transport London’s Date Event Vehicle Event description 26 September Showbus at Duxford VA115, RM1 Major bus & coach rally at 17 October Northfleet BN61 Local public trips organised by Country Bus Rallies 28 2003 31 October Cobham Museum open day FRM1 Registered bus service from Cobham Bus Museum 6 April Cobham Museum open day RM1, K424 & S742 Special event with all available 1920s London 22 November Design Council RM1 Reception in courtyard at Buckingham Palace 4 May London to Brighton run RCL2229 Historic commercial vehicle run 26 November RATP visit FRM1 Tour of central & city sights 17&18 May Depot open weekend Open topper & RT 4712 Special service – Depot to Kew Pumping Museum 14 June Arriva RT4712 2005 29 June North Weald RT4712 Enthusiast rally 28 January Last day of Routemaster on route 36 RM1 Commemorative run 27 July Worthing Rally and running day RT4712 3 April Cobham Museum open day RM1 Registered route: Cobham Bus Museum, Wisley 2 August Fulwell Garage Open Day A1 Diddler & Q1 , 1 May London to Brighton Run LT1076 (VA115) Historic commercial vehicle run 89Q, RM1, GS64, RCL2229, 4&5 June 75th Anniversary of Green Line Open weekend RT4712, VA115 coaches at the Depot Acton 17 August Pump House Museum, Walthamstow RT4712 AEC bus rally 25 June Waterden Road Garage open day RCL2229, MBA 582, BN61 1st Anniversary of bendy bus garage 13 September Garage open day RCL2229 10 July Country Bus Rallies GS64 Knockholt. Recreating local 1950/60s services 13-15 September EATM Carlton Colville RCL2229 End of season event featuring London vehicles 31 July Worthing Festival RM1 Charity event. Public trips to Lancing 4 October Depot open day Visiting from 1930s 10&11 September EATM Carlton Colville BN61 London Trolleybuses weekend 5 October Depot open day 1938TS Public runs from Ealing Common to Uxbridge 16 October Country Bus Rallies BN61, RCL2229 Northfleet. Green Line anniversary theme 22&23 October 2005 Family Weekend at the Depot Acton Open weekend 2004 30 October Tribute to Routemaster day RM1 Cobham Bus Museum special event 11 April Cobham Museum open day RM1 VA115 Registered bus service: Cobham and Wisley 2 May London to Brighton run T219 (VA115 as tender) Historic commercial vehicle run 2006 8 May Pump House Museum, Walthamstow RM1 AEC bus rally 15 January St Albans public running day BN61 Country bus rally 4 June Last Routemaster day on route 8 RM1 Stagecoach East London commemorative run 4&5 March Open weekend, London’s Transport 5&6 June Depot open weekend RM1 + others Special service-Depot to Kew Steam Museum in Miniature at the Depot Acton 20 June Friends run on 1938TS 1938TS Two afternoon runs Ealing to Uxbridge 26 June Holloway Garage open day RM1, T219 Holloway Garage open to the public 2 July Last Routemaster day on route 7 RM1 FirstBus commemorative run 4 July Uxbridge Met. Centenary 1938TS Two special runs: Uxbridge to 24&25 July Routemaster 50th event RM1, FRM1, RCL2229, Spectacular Routemaster buses from the in Finsbury Park T219 & K424 London’s Transport Museums’ collection.

21 August Hounslow Garage Open Day VA115 Public open day 3 September Last Routemaster day on route 73 RM1 & FRM1 Arriva commemorative run 11&12 September EATM Carlton Colville RM1 End of year London event 25 September 75th years of Omnibus Society K424, RM1, FRM1 Commemorative run from West Brompton to Covent Garden London’s Transport Museum is being transformed as part of the Transport for London Investment Programme

The Heritage Lottery Fund has generously Illustrations given £9.47m to London’s Transport The Museum is grateful to Museum towards its Covent Garden Project Bruce Rowling for his agreement to allow the reproduction of The Friends is a registered charitable trust. images from his Decant It raises money for the Museum, provides Sketchbook series in this review. The Friends of volunteers and helps Members to develop London’s Transport Museum their interest in urban passenger transport. Design The Friends is one of the biggest supporters London’s Transport Museum of the Covent Garden Project Photography Tube Lines is a Principal Sponsor of TfL (Source: London’s Transport the Museum’s redevelopment, and the Museum) largest commercial sponsor of the Covent Garden Project

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