Notes from the Underground

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1 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

2 Chancery Lane Charing Cross Chesham Chigwell Chiswick Park Chorleywood Clapham Common Clapham North Clapham South Cockfosters Colindale Colliers Wood Covent Garden Croxley Dagenham East Dagenham Heathway Debden Dollis Hill Ealing Broadway Ealing Common Earls Court East Acton East Finchley East Ham East Putney Eastcote Edgware Edgware Road Elephant and Castle Elm Park Embankment Epping Euston Euston Square Fairlop Farringdon Finchley Central Finchley Road Finsbury Road Fulham Broadway Gants Hill Gloucester Road Golders Green Goldhawk Road Goodge Street Grange Hill Sceptre taken from the painting The Court of Chancery by Benjamin Ferrars David Gentleman artwork from Charing Cross Station Roger Crab, 17c haberdasher upon whom the Lewis Carroll s Mad Hatter was based Chigwell barrage balloons employed in WWII William Hogarth s dog Famous for the Chorleywood Bread Making Process The man from the Clapham Omnibus symbolised the common man Graham Greene, author of The Third Man was born here George Jennings invented the Monkey Closet or public lavatory Famous Fosters Beer advert with Paul Hogan Frigidaire had a factory in Colindale Henry VI was crowned at Merton Abbey Area famous for Punch and Judy shows Croxley Mill Ford Cortina Ford Anglia Home of the Postal Museum The colossus computer of Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill Home of actor Sid James Home of tennis ace and fashion label icon Fred Perry Kangaroo symbolising large Australian community Wormwood Scrubs prison Sculpture by Eric Aumonier of a kneeling archer Weathervane Marc Bolan lived in East Putney Highgrove House Stained glass window from the Hale Lane Synagogue Famous for its shisha bars Statue, which is a symbol of the area Elm leaves Sphinx guarding Cleopatra s Needle on the Victoria Embankment Epping Forest George Bernard Shaw has a theatre named after him on the Euston Road Charles Darwin lived near Euston Square Fairlop Airfield Memorial Smithfields Market porter Harry Beck s iconic Tube map is commemorated here Charles de Gaulle lived nearby in Frognal John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten was born in Finsbury Park Marco Pierre White s signature pig s trotters at Marco, Fulham Road Commemorative Russian style tube sign as LU advised Moscow Sir John Everett Millais s painting Bubbles Chollah bread representing large Jewish community Cooke s pie and mash shop The Post Office Tower Roland Browning from the long running television series Grange Hill

3 Great Portland Street Greenford Green Park Gunnersbury Hainault Hammersmith Hampstead Hangar Lane Harlesden Harrow & Wealdstone Harrow on the Hill Hatton Cross Heathrow 1, 2 and 3 Heathrow 4 Heathrow 5 Hendon Central High Barnet Highbury and Islington Highgate High Street Kensington Hillingdon Holborn Holland Park Holloway Road Hornchurch Hounslow Central Hounslow East Hounslow West Hyde Park Corner Ickenham Kennington Kensal Green Kensington (Olympia) Kentish Town Kenton Kew Gardens Kilburn Kilburn Park Kingsbury Kings Cross Knightsbridge Ladbroke Grove Lambeth North Lancaster Gate Latimer Road Leicester Square Stethoscope symbolising the doctors of nearby Harley Street London Motorcycle Centre Buckingham Palace is nearby Gothic boathouse from Gunnersbury Park Tube platform Home of artist Mary Feddon Sigmund Freud lived in Hampstead Twyford Abbey Jubilee Clock The Wealdstone School boy from Harrow School The Urban Farm Luggage symbolising long haul flights, medium haul flights and short haul flights Pilot symbolising the Hendon Aerodrome From the Cockney rhyming slang for hair The Highbury Clock Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetery Famous 1960s shop Biba was on High Street Kensington Home of penicillin discoverer Alexander Fleming Lewis chess piece from the British Museum A peacock of Holland Park Edward Lear lived in Holloway Hornchurch RAF base Classical house The Lawn Birthplace of musician Phil Collins Birthplace of actor Jack Wild Wellington Arch Swakeley s House Birthplace of Charlie Chaplin Charles Babbage s Analytical Engine precursor to the computer Classical Olympic sculpture Kentish Town was renowned for piano manufacturers and shops All Saints Church Tower Kew Gardens Japanese pagoda Ian Dury from band Kilburn and the High Roads Tricycle Theatre Jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine was born in Kingsbury Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni is buried under platform 9 of Kings Cross Station Soldier from the Knightsbridge Horse Guards From the cover of London Calling by The Clash The name comes from landing place for lambs Peter Pan sculpture from Kensington Gardens The Westway Chinese soup bowl to represent Soho and Chinatown

4 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

5 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 the first ever iron bridge Bishop s Bridge Ruisip Home of cinematographer Oswald Morris who filmed Fiddler on the Roof Ruislip Gardens Actor Andy Serkis, Gollum from Lord of the Rings was born here Ruislip Manor Ruislip Manor Farm Russell Square Charles Dickens lived nearby at 48 Doughty Street St James s Park Rodin s The Burghers of Calais in Victoria Tower Gardens 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 Pitzhanger Manor 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 Amy Winehouse was born in Southgate Southwark William Shakespeare as the Shakespeare Globe Theatre is on Bankside Stamford Brook The Raven Public House Stanmore Roger Moore lived in Stanmore Stepney Green St Dunstan Church Stockwell 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 Swiss Cottage Cuckoo clock Temple Statue of two poor knights sharing a horse from in front of a 12c Templar Church Theydon Bois Theydon Bois Avenue of Trees Tooting Bec Taken from apocryphal story of tourists mistakenly being taken to Tooting Common during the Tutankhamen exhibition

6 Tooting Broadway Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Hale Totteridge & Whetstone Tower Hill Tufnell Park Turnham Green Turnpike Lane Upminster Upminster Bridge Upney Upton Park Uxbridge Vauxhall Victoria Walthamstow Central Wanstead Warren Street Warwick Avenue Waterloo Watford Wembley Central Wembley Park West Acton West Brompton West Finchley West Ham West Hampstead West Harrow West Kensington West Ruislip Westbourne Park Westminster White City Whitechapel Willesden Green Willesden Junction Wimbledon Wimbledon Park Wood Lane Woodford Woodside Park Wood Green Home of greyhound racetrack Wimbledon Stadium Portrait of local man on the Fitzrovia Mural Luke Howard invented the scientific classification for clouds Arsene Wenger, manager of Arsenal FC live in Totteridge One of the Tower s ravens Roofline of the Boston Towers tavern Battle of Turnham Green was fought here during the English Civil War Banksy graffito removed and sold in an American auction house Rev. William Derham accurately calculated the speed of sound Upminster Windmill Eastbury Manor Home of West Ham United FC John Rich the father of English pantomime lived here Tsar Nicholas I of Russia visited Vauxhall Queen Victoria William Morris James Pound discovers Saturn s satellites Rabbit Houseboat from Little Venice Napoleon Salters Gardens Almshouses The stadium of the home of English Football A football Home of actor Adam Faith, famous for his starring role in Budgie Wild Bill Cody s show came to Earl s Court Exhibition Centre Terry Thomas lived in West Finchley Weathervane Home of Winnie the Pooh author A A Milne Home of Roger Bannister, first man to break the 4-minute mile Home of racing car driver Stirling Moss Brian Connely, lead singe of the group Sweet lived here Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger s Trellick Tower Big Ben The marathon distance was set at the 1908 Olympics as the distance between White City Stadium and Windsor Castle 26 miles and 285 yards Gilbert and George live nearby in Spitalfields Home of the famous Spotted Dog public house Willesden Junction Library Uncle Bulgaria from The Wombles Strawberries, the favourite staple of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Historic home of the BBC Winston Churchill was the MP for Woodford Spike Milligan lived in Woodside Park Alexandra Park antenna

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