Notes from the Underground Station Reference Acton Town The Who were from Acton Aldgate No. 30 St Mary Axe – ‘affectionately known as The Gherkin’ Aldgate East Whitechapel Art Gallery Alperton Costume from Diwali celebrations Amersham Market Hall Angel Raphael angel Archway Vanished Banksy graffito Arnos Grove Arnos Grove station designed by Charles Holden Arsenal Arsenal Football Club icon Baker Street Sherlock Holmes Balham Book shop ‘My Back Pages’ named after Bob Dylan song Bank Bank of England as designed by Sir John Soanes Barbican Violin as the Barbican is the home of the London Symphony Orchestra Barking Dog barking Barkingside Fulwell Cross Library Barons Court Artist’s studio on the Talgarth Road Bayswater Marconi invents the wireless radio Becontree Home of the Becontree Brass Band Belsize Park Raleigh bike from Les Bicyclettes de Belsize Bermondsey Tank from corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk Bethnal Green ‘Muffin the Mule’ from the Museum of Childhood Blackfriars Statue from the Blackfriars pub Blackhorse Road Tile motif from Tube Station Bond Street Prada handbag Borough Cezanne’s pears from Borough Market Boston Manor 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 Brent Cross Trolley from the country’s first shopping mall Brixton David Bowie was born in Brixton Bromley-by-bow St Leonard’s Priory Buckhurst Hill Welcome to Buckhurst Hill sign Burnt Oak DJ and journalist Robert Elms was born in Burnt Oak Caledonian Road Housmans Radical Bookshop Camden Town Quintessential 1970’s punk Canada Water Canada Dry tonic water Canary Wharf Name came from connection with the Canary Islands rather than actual bird… Canning Town 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 Chalk Farm The Roundhouse Chancery Lane Sceptre taken from the painting ‘The Court of Chancery’ by Benjamin Ferrars Charing Cross 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 Chiswick Park William Hogarth’s dog Chorleywood Famous for the Chorleywood Bread Making Process Clapham 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 Cockfosters Famous Fosters Beer advert with Paul Hogan Colindale 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 Dagenham East Ford Cortina Dagenham Heathway Ford Anglia Debden Home of the Postal Museum Dollis Hill The colossus computer of Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill Ealing Broadway Home of actor Sid James Ealing Common Home of tennis ace and fashion label icon Fred Perry Earls Court Kangaroo symbolising large Australian community East Acton Wormwood Scrubs prison East Finchley Sculpture by Eric Aumonier of a kneeling archer East Ham Weathervane East Putney Marc Bolan lived in East Putney Eastcote Highgrove House Edgware Stained glass window from the Hale Lane Synagogue Edgware Road Famous for its shisha bars Elephant and Castle Statue, which is a symbol of the area Elm Park Elm leaves Embankment Sphinx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle on the Victoria Embankment Epping Epping Forest Euston George Bernard Shaw 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 Finchley Road Charles de Gaulle lived nearby in Frognal Finsbury Road John Lydon aka ‘Johnny Rotten’ was born in Finsbury Park Fulham 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 Golders Green 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 Greenford London Motorcycle Centre Green Park Buckingham Palace is nearby Gunnersbury Gothic boathouse from Gunnersbury Park Hainault Tube platform Hammersmith Home of artist Mary Feddon Hampstead Sigmund Freud lived in Hampstead Hangar Lane Twyford Abbey Harlesden Jubilee Clock Harrow & Wealdstone 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 Hendon Central Pilot symbolising the Hendon Aerodrome High Barnet From the Cockney rhyming slang for ‘hair’ Highbury and Islington The Highbury Clock Highgate Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetery High Street Kensington Famous 1960s shop Biba was on High Street Kensington Hillingdon Home of penicillin discoverer Alexander Fleming Holborn Lewis chess piece from the British Museum Holland Park A peacock of Holland Park Holloway Road Edward Lear lived in Holloway Hornchurch Hornchurch RAF base Hounslow Central Classical house ‘The Lawn’ Hounslow East Birthplace of musician Phil Collins Hounslow West Birthplace of actor Jack Wild Hyde Park Corner Wellington Arch Ickenham Swakeley’s House Kennington Birthplace of Charlie Chaplin Kensal Green Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine – precursor to the computer Kensington (Olympia) Classical Olympic sculpture Kentish Town Kentish Town was renowned for piano manufacturers and shops Kenton All Saints Church Tower Kew Gardens Kew 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 Knightsbridge Soldier from the Knightsbridge Horse Guards Ladbroke Grove From the cover of ‘London Calling’ by The Clash Lambeth North The name comes from landing place for lambs Lancaster Gate Peter Pan sculpture from Kensington Gardens Latimer Road The Westway Leicester Square Chinese soup bowl to represent Soho and Chinatown Leyton Leyton was heavily bombed by Zeppelins in WWI Leytonstone Alfred Hitchcock was born here Liverpool Street Richard Serra sculpture ‘Inside Fulcrum’ London Bridge The Canterbury Tales started at a tavern close to London Bridge Station Loughton ‘Rock Drill’ as Sculptor Jacob Epstein lived here Maida Vale Bradley Wiggins was born in Maida Vale Manor House Clissold House from Clissold Park Mansion House The Lord Mayor’s ceremonial carriage Marble Arch The location of the Tyburn Tree where public executions were held Marylebone Original location of the Marylebone Cricket Club Mile End Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture ‘House’ at 193 Grove Road, Mile End Mill Hill East University of London’s Observatory in Mill Hill Monument Pudding Lane was where the Great Fire of London began in 1666 Moorgate John Keats was born at the Swan and Hoop Inn, 199 Moorgate Moor Park Moor Park Golf Club Morden 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 Neasden Sculpture from the façade of the Neasden Temple Newbury Park Newbury Park North Acton Tim Burton’s Batman was filmed in the Acton Lane Power Station North Ealing North Ealing lamppost North Greenwich The O2 Centre North Harrow Lord Byron went to school at Harrow North Wembley Soul and R & B singer Maxine Nightingale was born here Northfields Architect Charles Holden’s Northfields Station Northolt ‘Northala Fields’ – four large man-made hills Northwick Park 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 Notting Hill Gate Home of the Notting Hill Carnival Oakwood Ancient ice well Old Street Tube train studios on a roof in nearby Shoreditch Osterley Osterley Park House Oval The Oval Gasomoter Oxford Circus Stanley Green, the Protein Man was a fixture of Oxford Street Paddington Home of Lord Baden Powell who started the Boy Scouts Park Royal Guiness factory Parsons Green The Fulham Pottery Perivale Entrance to the Hoover Building on Western Avenue Piccadilly Circus Alfred Gilbert’s statue of the Greek God Anteros popularly mistaken as Eros Pimlico Home of artist Aubrey Beardsley Pinner 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 Whiteleys Shopping Centre Ravenscourt Park 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 Richmond Park Rickmansworth Home of George Orwell Roding Valley Windmill Royal Oak Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed