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Station Reference

Acton Town The Who were from Acton Aldgate No. 30 St Mary Axe – ‘affectionately known as The Gherkin’ Aldgate East Art Gallery Costume from Diwali celebrations Amersham Market Hall Angel Raphael angel Archway Vanished Banksy graffito Arnos Grove station designed by Charles Holden Arsenal Arsenal Football Club icon Baker Street Sherlock Holmes Book shop ‘My Back Pages’ named after Bob Dylan song Bank Bank of as designed by Sir John Soanes Barbican Violin as the Barbican is the home of the Symphony Orchestra Barking Dog barking Barkingside Fulwell Cross Library Barons Court Artist’s studio on the Talgarth Road Bayswater Marconi invents the wireless radio Home of the Becontree Brass Band Belsize Park Raleigh bike from Les Bicyclettes de Belsize Tank from corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk ‘Muffin the Mule’ from the Museum of Childhood Blackfriars Statue from the Blackfriars Blackhorse Road Tile motif from Tube Station Bond Street Prada handbag Borough Cezanne’s pears from Borough Market Boston Manor House Bounds Green Rock group ‘UFO’ was formed in Bounds Green Bow Road Mahatma Ghandi stayed in Kingsley Hall in Bow in 1931 Trolley from the country’s first shopping mall David Bowie was born in Brixton -by-bow St Leonard’s Priory Buckhurst Hill Welcome to Buckhurst Hill sign DJ and journalist Robert Elms was born in Burnt Oak Caledonian Road Housmans Radical Bookshop Quintessential 1970’s punk Canada Dry tonic water Name came from connection with the Canary Islands rather than actual bird… Tin of sardines Cannon Street London Stone from 111 Cannon Street Canons Park Handel is made Composer in Residence at St Lawrence Whitchurch Chalfont and Latimer John Milton retired to Chalfont St Giles to complete Paradise Lost The Sceptre taken from the painting ‘The Court of Chancery’ by Benjamin Ferrars David Gentleman artwork from Charing Cross Station Chesham Roger Crab, 17c haberdasher upon whom the Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter was based Chigwell Chigwell barrage balloons employed in WWII Park ’s dog Chorleywood Famous for the Chorleywood Bread Making Process Common ‘The man from the Clapham Omnibus’ symbolised the common man Clapham North Graham Greene, author of The Third Man was born here Clapham South George Jennings invented the ‘Monkey Closet’ or public lavatory Famous Fosters Beer advert with Paul Hogan Frigidaire had a factory in Colindale Colliers Wood Henry VI was crowned at Merton Abbey Covent Garden Area famous for Punch and Judy shows Croxley Croxley Mill East Ford Cortina Dagenham Heathway Ford Anglia Debden Home of the Postal Museum The colossus computer of was built in Dollis Hill Broadway Home of actor Sid James Home of tennis ace and fashion label icon Fred Perry Earls Court Kangaroo symbolising large Australian community prison East by of a kneeling archer Weathervane East Marc Bolan lived in East Putney Eastcote Highgrove House Stained glass window from Lane Synagogue Famous for its shisha bars Statue, which is a symbol of the area Elm Park Elm leaves Embankment Sphinx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle on the Victoria Embankment Epping Euston has a theatre named after him on the Euston Road Euston Square Charles Darwin lived near Euston Square Fairlop Fairlop Airfield Memorial Farringdon Smithfields Market porter Finchley Central Harry Beck’s iconic Tube map is commemorated here Charles de Gaulle lived nearby in Frognal Finsbury Road John Lydon aka ‘Johnny Rotten’ was born in Broadway Marco Pierre White’s signature pig’s trotters at ‘Marco’, Fulham Road Gants Hill Commemorative Russian style tube sign as LU advised Moscow Gloucester Road Sir John Everett Millais’s painting Bubbles Chollah bread representing large Jewish community Goldhawk Road Cooke’s pie and mash shop Goodge Street The Post Office Tower Grange Hill Roland Browning from the long running television series Grange Hill Great Portland Street Stethoscope symbolising the doctors of nearby Harley Street London Motorcycle Centre Buckingham Palace is nearby Gothic boathouse from Hainault Tube platform Home of artist Mary Feddon Sigmund Freud lived in Hampstead Hangar Lane Twyford Abbey Jubilee Clock Harrow & The ‘Wealdstone’ Harrow on the Hill School boy from Harrow School Hatton Cross The Urban Farm Heathrow 1, 2 and 3 Luggage symbolising long haul flights, Heathrow 4 medium haul flights Heathrow 5 and short haul flights Central Pilot symbolising the Hendon Aerodrome High Barnet From the rhyming slang for ‘hair’ and The Highbury Clock Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetery High Street Famous 1960s shop Biba was on High Street Kensington Home of penicillin discoverer Alexander Fleming Lewis chess piece from the A peacock of Holland Park Holloway Road Edward Lear lived in Holloway Hornchurch RAF base Central Classical house ‘The Lawn’ Hounslow East Birthplace of musician Phil Collins Hounslow West Birthplace of actor Jack Wild Hyde Park Corner Swakeley’s House Birthplace of Charlie Chaplin Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine – precursor to the computer Kensington (Olympia) Classical Olympic sculpture Kentish Town was renowned for piano manufacturers and shops Kenton All Saints Church Tower Gardens Japanese pagoda Kilburn Ian Dury from band ‘Kilburn and the High Roads’ Kilburn Park Tricycle Theatre Kingsbury Jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine was born in Kingsbury Kings Cross Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni is buried under platform 9 of Kings Cross Station Soldier from the Knightsbridge Horse Guards Ladbroke Grove From the cover of ‘London Calling’ by The Clash North The name comes from landing place for lambs Lancaster Gate Peter Pan sculpture from Latimer Road The Chinese soup bowl to represent and Chinatown Leyton was heavily bombed by Zeppelins in WWI Leytonstone Alfred Hitchcock was born here Street Richard Serra sculpture ‘Inside ’ The Tales started at a tavern close to London Bridge Station ‘Rock Drill’ as Sculptor lived here Maida Vale Bradley Wiggins was born in Maida Vale Manor House Clissold House from Mansion House The Lord Mayor’s ceremonial carriage The location of the Tyburn Tree where public executions were held Original location of the Marylebone Cricket Club Mile End Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture ‘House’ at 193 Grove Road, Mile End East ’s Observatory in Mill Hill Monument Pudding Lane was where the began in 1666 Moorgate John Keats was born at the Swan and Hoop Inn, 199 Moorgate Moor Park Moor Park Golf Club Joseph Bazalgette, designer of the London Sewer Network lived here Mornington Crescent Willie Rushton invented the game ‘Mornington Crescent’ on the radio show I’m sorry I haven’t a clue Sculpture from the façade of the Neasden Temple Newbury Park Newbury Park Tim Burton’s Batman was filmed in the Acton Lane Power Station North Ealing North Ealing lamppost North Centre North Harrow Lord Byron went to school at Harrow North Soul and R & B singer Maxine Nightingale was born here Northfields Architect Charles Holden’s Northfields Station ‘’ – four large man-made hills Ambulance symbolising Northwick Park Hospital Northwood Director Derek Jarman lived here Northwood Hills Robert Cecil, 1 st Earl of Salisbury cleared Northwood Hills of trees Gate Home of the Notting Hill Carnival Oakwood Ancient ice well Old Street Tube train studios on a roof in nearby Osterley House Oval Gasomoter Circus Stanley Green, the Protein Man was a fixture of Home of Lord Baden Powell who started the Boy Scouts Guiness factory The Fulham Pottery Entrance to the on Western Avenue Circus Alfred Gilbert’s statue of the Greek God Anteros popularly mistaken as Eros Home of artist Aubrey Beardsley Elton John (Reginald Dwight) was born in Pinner Plaistow Dick Turpin Preston Road Sign from the Preston Tavern Putney Bridge Cardinal Wolsey crossed the river at Putney in 1529 Queen’s Park Queen’s Park Library Queensbury Tube Station is on Honeypot Lane Queensway Shopping Centre Ravenscourt Park Café once the stable block of Ravenscourt House Rayner’s Lane Grosvenor Cinema now converted to a Zoroastrian Centre Redbridge Redbridge Town Hall Regent’s Park Home of London Zoo Richmond Deer from Rickmansworth Home of Roding Valley Windmill Royal Oak Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed the first ever iron bridge ‘Bishop’s Bridge’ Ruisip Home of cinematographer Oswald Morris who filmed ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Gardens Actor Andy Serkis, ‘Gollum’ from Lord of the Rings was born here Ruislip Manor Ruislip Manor Farm Russell Square lived nearby at 48 Doughty Street St James’s Park Rodin’s The Burghers of in St John’s Wood The Beatles from the album cover of Abbey Road St Paul’s St Pauls Cathedral Seven Sisters The musician Dave Clark was from Seven Sisters Shepherds Bush Steptoe and Son was filmed and based in Shepherds Bush Shepherd’s Bush Market Sign from Shepherds Bush Market Sloane Square Venus fountain in Sloane Square Snaresbrook Swan from Eagle Pond South Ealing House and Gallery South Kensington Dodo from the Natural History Museum South Harrow Home of politician Screaming Lord Sutch South Kenton Cricketer Denis Compton was from Kenton South Ruislip Mary Bankes-Hawtry was a Royalist figure during the English Civil War South Wimbledon Home of the Wimbledon College of Art South Woodford Head of the Suffragette movement Sylvia Pankhurst lived here Southfields Home of the author George Eliot Southgate The singer Winehouse was born in Southgate William Shakespeare as the Shakespeare Globe Theatre is on Bankside Stamford Brook The Raven Public House Roger Moore lived in Stanmore Green St Dunstan Church Vincent van Gogh lived briefly in Stockwell Stonebridge Park McVities Biscuit Factory was here Stratford Mo Farah winning the 10,000 metre gold medal at the 2012 Olympics Sudbury Hill Dev Patel, star of Slumdog Millionaire was born in Sudbury Sudbury Town Express Dairy Cuckoo clock Temple Statue of two poor sharing a horse from in front of a 12c Templar Church Theydon Bois Theydon Bois Avenue of Trees Bec Taken from apocryphal story of tourists mistakenly being taken to Tooting Common during the Tutankhamen exhibition Tooting Broadway Home of greyhound racetrack ‘Wimbledon Stadium’ Court Road Portrait of local man on the Fitzrovia Mural Luke Howard invented the scientific classification for clouds & Whetstone Arsene Wenger, manager of Arsenal FC live in Totteridge Tower Hill One of the Tower’s ravens Tufnell Park Roofline of the Boston Towers tavern Battle of Turnham Green was fought here during the English Civil War Turnpike Lane Banksy graffito removed and sold in an American auction house Rev. William Derham accurately calculated the speed of sound Upminster Bridge Upminster Windmill Upney Eastbury Manor Upton Park Home of United FC John Rich the father of English pantomime lived here Tsar Nicholas I of Russia visited Vauxhall Victoria Queen Victoria Central William Morris James Pound discovers Saturn’s satellites Warren Street Rabbit Warwick Avenue Houseboat from Little Venice Waterloo Napoleon Watford Salters Gardens Almshouses Wembley Central The stadium of the home of English Football A football Home of actor Faith, famous for his starring role in Budgie Wild Bill Cody’s show came to Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre West Finchley Terry Thomas lived in West Finchley West Ham Weathervane Home of Winnie the Pooh author A A Milne West Harrow Home of Roger Bannister, first man to break the 4-minute mile Home of racing car driver Stirling Moss West Ruislip Brian Connely, lead singe of the group ‘Sweet’ lived here Westbourne Park Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger’s

White City The marathon distance was set at the 1908 Olympics as the distance between White City Stadium and Windsor Castle – 26 miles and 285 yards Whitechapel Gilbert and George live nearby in Spitalfields Green Home of the famous Spotted Dog public house Willesden Junction Willesden Junction Library Wimbledon Uncle Bulgaria from The Wombles Strawberries, the favourite staple of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Wood Lane Historic home of the BBC Woodford was the MP for Woodford Spike Milligan lived in Woodside Park Alexandra Park antenna