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London and Underground
* London Underground anagram map
This department had been created by the museum to address objects in the collection that had begun to rapidly deteriorate as a result of being stored in the London Underground tunnels during the First World War.
In addition, some cities have separate rail-based mass transit systems ( including the extensive and historic London Underground ).
* A statue stands outside Malvern Court, south of South Kensington Underground Station, and just north of 7 Sydney Place, where he stayed when performing in London.
Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.
Beck's London Underground map is an iconic example.
The Jubilee line of the London Underground opened in 1979 from to as the first stage of an intended cross-town tube line beyond Charing Cross to south-east London.
One early example includes the anarcho-punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stenciling anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist messages around the London Underground system during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The signage in the London Underground is a classic design example of the modern era and used a typeface designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.
More than 50 were killed and 750 injured in three bombings on London Underground and another aboard a double decker bus near Russell Square in King's Cross.
Oyster cards ( the ticket-free system for London Underground ) are now given with wallets sponsored by IKEA who also sponsor the tube map.
* 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
The London Underground ( often shortened to the Underground ) is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom, serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
The earlier lines of the present London Underground network were built by various private companies.
The underground network became a separate entity in 1985, when the UK Government created London Underground Limited ( LUL ).

London and did
And please it did, in every sense of the word, for it had the audience shouting much of the time in a manner far from typical of London audiences.
Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.
They eloped to London but apparently did not marry.
From 1956 through 1958, he did his postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry.
Also in 1987, Bronski Beat and Somerville did a reunion concert for " International AIDS Day ", supported by New Order, at the Brixton Academy, London.
Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.
In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.
In 1765, Dr John Fewster published a paper in the London Medical Society entitled " Cow pox and its ability to prevent smallpox ", but he did not pursue the subject further.
It attempted to depict the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image, depicting ' navvies ' digging up a road, Heath Street in Hampstead, London, and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so.
This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained.
Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.
When Henry Compton, the Bishop of London, did not ban John Sharp from preaching after he gave an anti-Catholic sermon, James ordered his removal.
A particularly hot summer in London did not help ticket sales.
Hanover did not have to support a lavish court — its rulers were also kings of England and resided in London.
The solution was a narrow base of funding through the Rothschilds and the closed circles of the Bourse in Paris, so France did not develop the same kind of national stock exchange that flourished in London and New York.
19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.
Mellitus also returned to England, but the prevailing pagan mood did not allow him to return to London ; after Laurence's death, Mellitus became Archbishop of Canterbury.
The London County Council managed tram operations within the County of London, but its responsibility did not extend to the bus or tram routes that ran outside its area ; or to the railways, which also extended into neighbouring counties.
A Royal Commission on London Government in the 1920s did not permit the London County Council to extend its area of responsibility and an ad-hoc London Traffic Area was created to regulate motor traffic in the wider London region.

London and pass
To give another example, the validity of a pass on London Regional Transport services is until the end of the " transport day " -- that is to say, until 4: 30 am on the day after the " expiry " date stamped on the pass.
According to a survey by the University of London, one in ten people are now leaving their passwords in their wills to pass on this important information when they die.
Carroll studied science at University of London and graduated with a " precisely calculated minimum pass ".
In 1363, David went to London and agreed that should he die childless, the crown would pass to Edward ( his brother-in-law ) or one of his sons, with the Stone of Destiny being returned for their coronation as King of Scots.
From the mid-17th century, stagecoaches began to pass through Slough and Salt Hill, which became locations for the second stage to change horses on the journey out from London.
Heading into the final leg of the race, competitors pass The Tower of London on Tower Hill.
Several central London road bridges were built in the 19th century, most conspicuously Tower Bridge, the only Bascule bridge on the river, designed to allow ocean going ships to pass beneath it.
Walpole was also able to persuade Parliament to pass the Licensing Act of 1737 under which London theatres were regulated.
Early proposals for a flood control system were stymied by the need for a large opening in the barrier to allow for vessels from the London docks to pass through.
Its situation overlooks the pass through the hills taken by the Pilgrims ' Way, and also, presumably, once overlooked the ancient ford across the Wey, thus giving a key point of military control of this important East-West route way across the country ; just as Windsor Castle and the Tower of London once guarded the Thames.
Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was forced to decline and pass the honors to London.
Additionally National Rail's Lea Valley Lines also pass through Hackney, with stations at London Fields, Hackney Downs, Rectory Road, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, and Clapton.
The M25 ring-road around London passes Orpington to the South of the town and three A roads, the A208, A224 and A232 pass through the area.
" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.
Chiltern Railways share the railway track with London Underground and run services from Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway that pass through Amersham every day.
In London, William Dorrit, imprisoned as a debtor, has been a resident of Marshalsea debtor's prison for so long that his three children — snobbish Fanny, idle Edward ( known as Tip ), and Amy ( known as Little Dorrit ) — have all grown up there, though they are free to pass in and out of the prison as they please.
Frere has been accused of chicanery by taking deliberate advantage of the length of time it took for correspondence to pass between South Africa and London to conceal his intentions from his political masters or at least defer giving them the necessary information until it was too late for them to act.
Los Angeles continued to foster the most important scene around the Sunset Strip, with groups like London, which had originally formed as a glam rock band in the 1970s, and had seen future members of Mötley Crüe, Cinderella and Guns N ' Roses pass through its ranks, finally releasing their début album Non Stop Rock in 1985.
The main London to Colchester A12 trunk road which evolved from the Great East Road originally built by the Romans to connect London and Colchester, used to pass through the city but is now diverted around the east.
The new line would deviate at Bedford and would pass through a gap in the Chiltern Hills at Luton, reaching London by curving around Hampstead Heath to a point between King's Cross and Euston.
London bus routes 127, S1 pass the station and route 264 9mins walk to the station.
On June 19, 2006 the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment pointed to the building as an example of bad design, where badly-designed paving forces pedestrians into the bus lane as they try to pass the building and accounts for the highest level of pedestrian injuries in Central London.

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