Website An Individual Look At London.

[adrian]

Whilst trying to settle a discussion about the origin of words ending in -ize I stumbled across the following website.

www.metadyne.co.uk/Research.htm

Which has published a rather eclectic look at the minutae of London, many being related to the London Underground.

I rather liked the phrase in the article about numbering LU Platforms,

The obscure subject of platform numbering should not detain anybody for very long.

Or what about a photographic record of parish boundary markers in London? Or a detailed study of the Automatic Junction Working on the London Underground?

Hopefully it maybe of interest to some.

p.s. It's not an Americanism

 

[Buckjumper]

Or the info that Aldgate's 1st signal Box had 55 levers (49 working, 3 spare, 3 spaces) in 1907...Aldgate being the basis for the far future segment of BF that will be the Metropolitan station.

Fascinating site, thanks.