Open-top buses get caught up in traffic in Whitehall in 1913 caused by a Suffregette procession in Trafalgar Square: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfhm1XOdYk&feature=PlayList&p=2189B4FCA011C2A1&index=3

... Or Hammersmith/Hammersmith? Or Shepherds Bush/Shepherds Bush, or Paddington/Paddington, or Edgware Road/Edgware Road... Mind you, I still think they should go back to calling Charing Cross (Bakerloo) Trafalgar Square...But that'd create another Bank/Monument situation. ;-) Cheers, Barry

... London and thought that it would be a Good Idea to take a bus which went round the south side of Trafalgar Square. In years gone by, it would have gone around the north side. I got out and walked. But I had to... the door. Yes, that's particularly stupid. While closing the north side of the square might make sense, not letting people off the bus is just dumb, and the lights ...

...London and thought that it would be a Good Idea to take a bus which went round the south side of Trafalgar Square. In years gone by, it would have gone around the north side. I got out and walked. But I had... open the door. Yes, that's particularly stupid. While closing the north side of the square might make sense, not letting people off the bus is just dumb, and the lights definitely...

... driving through the extra congestion. Heh. Recently I was in central London and thought that it would be a Good Idea to take a bus which went round the south side of Trafalgar Square. In years gone by, it would have gone around the north side. I got out and walked. But I had to wait until it got to a bus stop because the driver ...

....co.uk> wrote: (There was a tourist route with a preserved bus in 1980 when the LT Museum first opened, was that the 100? I remember seeing that in Trafalgar Square on my first ever visit to London Easter 1980.) I still think of it as running from Barking to Beckton Gas Works. Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be....

... in, no doubt! (There was a tourist route with a preserved bus in 1980 when the LT Museum first opened, was that the 100? I remember seeing that in Trafalgar Square on my first ever visit to London Easter 1980.) -- Ian Jelf, MITG Birmingham, UK Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England http://www....

Molesworth wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7468750.stm More than 2,400 people will occupy Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth over 100 days as part of a living artwork. Antony Gormley won the opportunity to showcase The One and the Other on the plinth, as did Yinka Shonibare with Nelson's Ship in a ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7468750.stm More than 2,400 people will occupy Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth over 100 days as part of a living artwork. Antony Gormley won the opportunity to showcase The One and the Other on the plinth, as did Yinka Shonibare with Nelson's Ship in a Bottle. Mr Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle will...

...of current over-consumption of resources. Is that the sort of cherry picking that allows an ass to claim that the presence of fossil hippopotamus bones in Trafalgar Square indicates a "local" effect? Wrong again, Filth. What it indicates is that it used to be near the equator. Oh really? You...