It’s been over 80 years since the Bethnal Green tube disaster and it’s still an incident that invokes a lot of emotion for Londoners. It was the worst case of civilian loss in all of the Second World War when 300 people were crushed (173 of them killed) trying to get into the station for shelter. How it could have ...
Happy 160th birthday to the London Underground! đ The Metropolitan Railway opened between Paddington and Farringdon Street to the public on January 10th 1863, and in the coming years it was carriages like these that were changing the world. The influence of the system in London alone is huge, with all the rival companies that ended up jumping on board, ...
It’s been over 90 years since Arsenal became the only football club in the world to have a station named after them and it’s an incredible bit of branding that hasn’t been matched. Visionary manager Herbert Chapman convinced the Underground Group to rename Gillespie Road station to Arsenal (Highbury Hill) in a stroke of marketing genius. Initially he was met ...
The streaming service has finally announced that it will allow users on iOS and Android devices to download their favourite Films and TV Shows to their devices to use without WiFi or Data. Netflix fans have been waiting for this for many years, since other streaming services like All 4 and BBC iPlayer have had their own ‘Offline Mode’ for a number ...