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Above & Below London creates shoes using retro textiles reclaimed from the seat upholstery of 10 lines of underground tube and bus lines. The fabric for each shoe is hand selected and restored while leather used in the shoe’s production comes from landfill-bound wallets and car tires.Above & Below London creates shoes using retro textiles reclaimed from the seat... more
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London artists now have a sustainable solution for the dilemma of renting expensive studio space to work in. Furniture Designer Auro Foxcraft purchased four old Underground subway cars for 200 pounds each and mounted them to a rooftop to create some unique, affordable office space. Located on the roof of a brick warehouse in Shoreditch, London, the Village Underground, as it’s called, provides affordable studio space for artists at the cost of 15 pounds a week. The seats were removed and the cars were retrofitted to create the highly desirable and much needed studio space.London artists now have a sustainable solution for the dilemma of renting expensive... more
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The London Underground are lifting their ban on Tube station sponsorship. Perhaps one day we'll have companies actually changing the names of stations to match their brands - King's Crosse & Blackwells maybe, or Pledgeware Road.lThe London Underground are lifting their ban on Tube station sponsorship. Perhaps one... more
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Mysterious adverts featuring images of Barack Obama, David Cameron and the CERN particle collider on London Underground platforms have sparked debate among confused commuters and bloggers.
The adverts, which all have bold black backgrounds, started appearing at London Underground stations and on trains earlier this week, and were published in several national newspapers this morning. They contain no text, and there are few clues to what they are promoting.
At least six separate designs have been spotted around London: Barack Obama outside No 10 Downing Street, David Cameron walking past a statue of Winston Churchill, an overweight boy in swimming trunks, a golden football, a section of the Large Hadron Collider, and a stretching woman athlete.
Blogger Rick Lamb was one of the first to notice the posters and post pictures on the internet: “This is obviously a big outdoor campaign for someone, but they are keeping quiet about it and it is generating a decent amount of buzz around London,” he said. “My best guess at the moment is that it's for a news outlet, either a newspaper or TV News, or at a longer shot a new TV show.”
Have you seen one or more of the adverts? What do you think they are for? Do you like the idea of 'mystery advertisement' or does it seem rather pointless to you? Mysterious adverts featuring images of Barack Obama, David Cameron and the CERN... more
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Up to 20% of London Underground train drivers are sent on retraining courses each year because of unsafe driving, according to the BBC. About 700 drivers were sent on the courses each year since 2003 for wrongly going through red stop signals.
The figures, which were obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, include drivers who may have been on courses twice in the same year.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.Up to 20% of London Underground train drivers are sent on retraining courses each year... more
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The story of a young creatively minded man called Tom Foxcroft who was managed to get 4 decommissioned tube carriages and place them on the top of a railway viaduct in the heart of Shoreditch. The trains will be turned into artist's studios.The story of a young creatively minded man called Tom Foxcroft who was managed to get... more
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These are even more fun than the Samuel L. Jackson soundboard.
The lady who voiced London's Tube announcements has done some spoofs, and they're hilarious!These are even more fun than the Samuel L. Jackson soundboard.
The lady who voiced... more
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5 years ago
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The London Underground has sacked Emma Clarke; the woman whose voice is heard by millions of passengers riding the Tube each day. The BBC explains why...The London Underground has sacked Emma Clarke; the woman whose voice is heard by... more
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An Old Bailey jury has found the Metropolitan Police guilty of health and safety failures in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005.An Old Bailey jury has found the Metropolitan Police guilty of health and safety... more
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"Tube workers are under increasing pressure to end the industrial action that has thrown the London transport system into chaos, after Prime Minister Gordon Brown branded the strike "wholly unjustified" and urged them to get back to work.""Tube workers are under increasing pressure to end the industrial action that has... more
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