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travelling-my-little-pony · 1 year

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Here is Fluttershy outside the closed Strand Tube Station. It was built in 1907, was renamed Aldwych Tube Station, and was closed down in 1994. (The cost of replacing the lifts was considered too expensive for the relatively low number of passengers using the station.)

In London, England.

#My Little Pony #g4 #fluttershy #strand station #tube #underground #london underground #aldwych station #london #england

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carbone14 · 1 year

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Des londoniens réfugiés dans la station de métro Aldwych assistent à un concert organisé par l’Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) pendant le Blitz – Londres – 1940

L'Entertainments National Service Association est une organisation créée en 1939 par les acteurs Basil Dean et Leslie Henson pour divertir le personnel des forces armées britanniques pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.

#WWII #Bataille d'Angleterre #Battle of Britain #Blitz #Métro #Métro londonien #London underground #Civils #Entertainments National Service Association #ENSA #Aldwych station #Londres #London #Angleterre #England #1940

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catilinas · 1 year

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rip to my hopes and dreams of visiting the (absolutely not local) nuclear power station (they are no longer doing tours) :-(

#BUT my hopes and dreams of visiting the abandoned aldwych ghost station LIVE (they are doing More tours timing it around school is no longer #a problem)#let me IN #beeps

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softcthulhuwu · 3 months

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with Sam getting his response department forms this week it's gotten me thinking

Specifically about MAG100 and "John Smith's" encounter with supposed secret government facility accessed via a tube station - we have confirmation from the season 3 q&a that all the episode 100 statements are still real, so we know for certain this guy encountered *something* down there

whether it was an actual facility of a fear-scape nightmare zone bending of real space is another matter, but we do know in TMA the original copy of Trevor Herbert's statement was taken under a government and law enforcement contract with the teeth bag also nowhere to be found, and they gotta have put those somewhere

So, y'know, secret govt. facilities are not out of the question, and now in TMAGP we're working for the government in the civil service department of spooky shit, so maybe we'll see Sam taking a trip to Aldwych Tube Station (or hear of somewhere like it)

#the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tmagp

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georgesgazetteer · 5 months

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Favourite QUIRKY Lockwood & Co (BOOK) locations

If you've only seen the TV series, you may be confused by these sites! Lambeth sewers, Sloane Square tube station (with pipe carrying the Westbourne River), Hanover Square (Mrs Winterbottom) with its water channel to prevent ghosts. "Some house-owners build open channels outside their front doors and divert the rainwater along them" from TEG Glossary, and the tube station which used to serve The Strand. It was actually known as Aldwych.

#lockwood and co #anthony lockwood #bring back lockwood and co #georgesgazetteer #save lockwood and co #george karim #lucy carlyle #savelockwoodandco #locklyle #LockwoodLocations

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cassandra-acton · 6 months

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@mobscene-starters Location: Aldwych Tube Station, Spencer's Hallowe'en Party.

It hadn't taken long for her to shed Regina's brace. Not conducive for Cassandra Acton levels of drunk, apparently. Who'd have guessed.

Spencer's parties were always her favourite kind, and even though she could've done without Diana Sehgal lurking, at least her presence meant there would be a solid lid on all of the underground shenanigans. No press, no photos, no Westminster Insider... Perfect, considering she was hoping to be spectacularly messy on one of the rare occasions where she could do so without feeling guilty.

"Just a heads up, if you're not here to either dance with me, or pour alcohol directly into my mouth, then fuck off."

#mobstarter #event: halloween2023

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lararutherford · 6 months

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@mobscene-starters Location: Aldwych Tube Station, Spencer's Hallowe'en Party.

Taking a breather when she'd been out of the game for so long was necessary.

Lara had left Camilla somewhere down in the tunnels, and sought out the relative calmness of the former ticket hall; the steady thrum of the bass from downstairs the only reminder that this was a rager at all. It was a chance for a smoke break, a moment alone from those seeking her out for what must've felt the first time in an age, and some peace to ponder some of the...costume choices for the evening. One questionable group that seemed to have all come together, in particular.

When somebody had taken to the seat opposite, the Rutherford had been hoping it was another vague acquaintance trying to attract her company with alcohol. To her disappointment, there were no obvious offerings in sight:

"Need a light?"

#mobstarter #event: halloween2023

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cpahlow · 2 years

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Had to share this @weheartit

Queen Elizabeth II's love of corgis is being celebrated as part of her platinum jubilee with a trail of giant statues of the dogs set up throughout London.

The trail, called The Queen & Her Corgis, comprises 19 giant corgi statues located in public spaces, gardens, stations, lobbies and windows across the Heritage Quarter. This stretches from Victoria Station to the Royal Courts of Justice near Aldwych.

#corgi statue #london #platinum jubilee

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busygirlgcttagc · 2 years

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she’s off to fight sophia leigh

damn the aldwych ghost station got hands

#tr3 update: im at aldwich #time to relieve the level that made me terrified of subways fnfdgam #also i can get one (1) tomb raider legends icon. just one.#[ ☥ ] ] ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏғ ʙᴜʟʟᴇᴛs | • | ooc [ [ ☥ ]#[ ☥ ] ] ɪ'ᴠᴇ ɢᴏᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋᴇʏs ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴊᴇᴇᴘ | • | crack [ [ ☥ ]

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londiniumlundene · 2 years

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Lost London: Walking the Covent Garden Drainage Ditches

With apologies for the slightly unappealing title – the watercourses that drained the area we now know as Covent Garden may not have ever been rivers or streams, hence it feels inappropriate to definitively categorise these as lost rivers. However, they definitely carried water to the Thames, may once have been streams that have been rechannelled, and still exist in a culverted form, with some small traces to be found at street level.

This is a walk in three parts, starting and finishing at the Thames, following first the Bloomsbury Ditch, followed by the Cock and Pye Ditch, and finally the St Martin’s parish sewer.

Part 1: The Bloomsbury Ditch

This drainage channel, also referred to in some sources as the Southampton Sewer, took water from the Cock and Pye Ditch and other surrounding marshy areas between Covent Garden and the Thames. Its outfall is no longer visible, having been channelled into the main sewer of the Victoria Embankment, which was completed in 1870. The closest one can get to it nowadays is Temple Place, the original line of the riverbank. A good place to start the walk is the rooftop section of Victoria Embankment Gardens, above Temple tube station; this has recently been transformed into an outdoor art space, but it also provides a good view out over the Thames.

Leaving the Thames behind (for now), the route of the Bloomsbury Ditch can be traced along Strand Lane, a dead-end road that cuts between buildings of King’s College London’s Strand campus. Strand Lane climbs steadily upwards, bringing the walker to the fake “Roman” baths (previously featured on this blog), which are supposedly managed by the National Trust, though have never seemed to be in particularly good condition on any of my previous visits. The (gated) steps up to Surrey Street by the baths show how much lower Strand Lane is, suggesting this was indeed once the drainage valley.

Doubling back and then around to Surrey Street (due to the aforementioned dead end and gated steps), passing the closed Aldwych station, and crossing the Strand by St Mary-le-Strand church, the best way forward here is Melbourne Place, as the ditch runs under Bush House, which formerly belonged to the BBC, and is now also inhabited by King’s College. The route then takes the walker across Aldwych, which was recently changed over to two-way traffic, the latest chapter in the saga of transport improvements associated with Aldwych and adjoining Kingsway.

Getting back on track, the course of the Bloomsbury Ditch can be picked up again along Drury Lane, which rises gradually uphill towards Covent Garden. Drury Lane is probably best known for its theatres and/or as the erstwhile residence of a muffin man, though this walk passes a few other places of interest, including the former burial ground of St John’s Church (now a children’s playground) and the Peabody Building, once the Lambert and Butler tobacco factory.

Sources are vague on where the Bloomsbury Ditch and Cock and Pye Ditch meet (some even treat them as the same ditch). However, a good place to stop with this leg of the walk would seem to be outside the Gillian Lynne Theatre, looking across to a dark alley that leads into the heart of Covent Garden…

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travelling-my-little-pony · 1 year

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Twilight Sparkle is looking at the place where there used to be a house, where the astrologer William Lilly lived.

(The site now has a closed tube station on it - it was once The Strand tube station, then Aldwych, then closed.)

In London, England.

#My Little Pony #g4 #Twilight Sparkle #william lilly #astrologer #astrology #london #england

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0zzysaurus · 1 year

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If I start writing cats fanfic again, what would y’all be interested in? (Its stuff ive posted about before)

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thetrueparanormal · 3 months

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Aldwych Underground Station, originally called Strand Station, is located in Central London, England. The station first opened in 1907, and despite only being open until 1994, it has quite an active history ranging from being used as air raid shelter to being used multiple times as a film set. In the paranormal community, the station is best known as being investigated by the Most Haunted team back in 2002. The station is referred to as a 'ghost station', but that simply refers to the fact it is no longer in active use.

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afactaday · 8 months

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#aFactADay2021

#296: during WW2, lots of the London Underground stations were converted into various other things. obviously many were used as bomb shelters and whotnot but there were some other uses.

Earl's Court and the entire stretch between Leytonstone and Gants hill (about 2.5 miles) was used to produce aircraft.

Goodge Street was a base for General Eisenhower.

South Kensington was used as a signalling school, a huge store cupboard, AND a time-delay bomb research centre.

Brompton Road (closed in 1934, temporarily reopened), was used to house the anti-aircraft division, with offices and everything.

Aldwych (closed 1994) and Holborn were used to store artifacts for the British Museum. a newspaper offered some money to anyone who would sleep a night with the mummies.

Chancery Lane had an air raid shelter built underneath it! in the 70s, it was converted into a telephone exchange with its own restaurant.

the entire electricity grid for Southeast England was controlled from the lift shaft in St. Paul's station.

#afactaday #aFactADay2021 #fact of the day #fotd296 #this post was auto-posted by flanbot

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fabiansteinhauer · 1 year

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MultipliCity und CompliCity

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Die Metapher ist ein Bus.

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The 68 bus route itself starts at Euston bus station and the burial site and memorial for Matthew Flinders. It proceeds through Bloomsbury, taking in the British Museum, most of the colleges of the University of London, the Inns of Court and the High Court, the old commercial heart of Imperial London and the Australian High Commission at Aldwych. Across the River Thames, depending on ambition and patience, it passes by the major cultural centre of Southbank, the Imperial War Museum and destinations further south. There are emblems and places enough on this route to suggest that jurisprudents have been at work in London and one might take up a responsibility to pattern the Enduring Civilisation and Encounters exhibitions into London and its jurisprudence.

Despite the somewhat erratic routines of arriving by bus from South London, a jurisprudent could hardly excuse themself arriving at the British Museum without some sense of the conduct of lawful relations.

However travel on the 68 Bus should not be undertaken without resources. My own were an English translation of Montaigne’s Essays (1987) and Paul Carter’s Meeting Places (2013). They both touch on the forms of unofficial training in the persona of the diplomat and jurisprudent, and they both worry about how to meet well. On the return trip I read the subtly discordant exhibition catalogue, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation (Sculthorpe 2015) for the same purpose.

#MulitipliCity #complicity #the art of association #shaun mcveigh #protokoll #die metapher ist ein bus

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sheltiechicago · 2 years

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Crossness Pumping Station’s main pump room

Unseen London

Architectural photographer Peter Dazeley was granted access to some of London’s secret and underground locations, from the bell tower of Big Ben to the pump room of Abbey Mill. A collection of 50 of these secret spots are compiled into a new book, Unseen London (Frances Lincoln, 2014).

Aldwych disused Underground Station. Aldwych was always a dead-end and part has been disused since 1917.

Royal Naval College, Skittle Alley.

Midlands Bank Vault used in the movie "Goldfinger."

#peter dazeley #photographer #london #england #architecture #architectural photography #unseen london #photo series #culture

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