London Transport Museum Acton Depot Open Day

There was an open day at the Acton Depot of the Transport Museum this weekend. This is where they store all the stuff that they don't have room for at the main museum in Covent Garden. It's a vast shed, just filled with London Transport stuff, from signals, to signage, to architectural models, to buses, trains and trams. The trains, trams and buses were alright, but I loved all the original signs, hung up in narrow corridors. I wonder how much they'd all fetch on ebay.

The Angel, Islington

Not a road as such, but an area, named after a coaching inn on this site, dating back from before the fire of London. The area is mainly famous for being where my local Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencer are.

And following on from the tank found near Old Kent Road, here's another tank, found at the end of Torrens Street, right next to the Angel tube station.

Kings Cross Station

Kings Cross has just reopened after a bit of a refit. Looking quite spanky, but I can imagine it getting pretty dusty in some of the organically formed crevices about. Note, I edited this post to put in photos of the new refit, which was opened a week or so after this post.

Parkland Walk

Took a cycle down the Parkland Walk between Highgate and Finsbury Park. Some nice old school graffiti. And a lot of bushes and stuff. Trees. Grass. The walk follows an old LNER railway line between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace.

This sculpture, of a "spriggan", inspired Stephen King to write his short story "Crouch End"

More Boats

Following on from all the boats of the last couple of days, here are some bigger boats, a grain transporter, the Jolie Birse, turning around in a small dock, and the royal yacht Brittania.

Springvalley Gardens

Just off a wee road in Morningside, Edinburgh, is a Wild West street. Created, i think, by a timber merchant as a piece of advertising, or something, it is actually quite impressive.

It would have been nice if "SpaceLab" had gotten into the spirit of things with their signage like "Scotweb" up the stairs did.