mrwaverly

The classic 'Brixton Briefcase'.

Top Secret until very recently. Now part of a nature reserve.

Spooky! We had some of those in Berlin during the cold war, when some metro lines crossed GDR territory...those were boarded up and guarded, and trains obviously didn't stop.

The LU has so many because originally, lots of smaller rival companies ran their own trains on their own lines. Of course, there were intersections, and common areas of track, but when the entire system was unified by London Transport, it could be seen that there were stations ludicrously close to each other, and some that were only used for a short time each day, or by very few passengers (Blake Hall, a station outside London holds this dubious record - 16 passengers a day), so the decision was made to close awkward stations. During the second world war, some stations were opened as bomb shelters, and control centres for various essential services. To the east of London, a stretch of new stations were converted into a huge underground factory, making aircraft parts. Even stranger, there is a station that was built, but due to a vigourous campaign by residents, never connected to the surface (until about 20 years ago). This was North End, or 'Bull & Bush' (a local pub), high up on Hampstead Heath. It would have been the deepest station on the entire network - 221 feet. Sorry, but I love this sort of stuff.👍😄

This is Captain Kit Draper, ex Mars Gravity Probe 1. I named him after the lead character from the 1964 movie 'Robinson Crusoe On Mars'. A great fun movie. And one of my favourites.

Unseen when I took the shot with my brand new HTC1. My attention was on the odd-looking moon. I was walking to the shops to get beer, if I remember correctly.👍😄

One of my all time favourite movies. Directed by Robert Fuest, who also worked on the wonderfully odd TV series 'The Avengers'. It shows. And it stars the great Vincent Price, who enjoyed making it immensely. It shows. It is great macabre fun. If you have never seen it, I urge you to. And the sequel is excellent, as well.

I loved ladybird books ❤️

So do I - but some of them were so po - faced, they need a boot in the toches. I hate physically defacing books - I'll never be as good at it as Joe Orton & Kenneth Halliwell were, but the computer, used after a few drinks, and malice aforethought, can do it virtually. This cover just cried out to me. I'm searching for one so that I can use Mr. McCloud's "Half a million pound hole" quote, which, oddly enough, you can get as a t-shirt.