Sunday 26 October 2008

#815 - Learn the secrets of Westminster Bridge Road

Timeout says:
First look at No.100, a block of posh flats now inhabited by bankers, Japanese businessmen and Kevin Spacey. It used to be the headquarters of MI6 and is alleged to have secret prison cells and a secret passage to nearby Lambeth North tube station

Dave did:




Timeout says:
Now head a few yards north on the other side of the road. Nestled between a Spar and a Chicken Palace, No.121 has a terracotta, mildly Gothic frontage that shields the remains of one of London's strangest railway stations - the Waterloo terminus of the Necropolis Railway, which took coffins from London to a Surrey graveyard. The brainchild of the London Necropolis Company, from 1885 'the stiffs express' would take corpses daily to their final resting place in Brookwood Cemetery.

Dave did:



126 down...874 Things to go!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hello there.

My friend pointed me to yous site. How did you get on with doing the 1000 things. I did '101 things' (which was a shortened version of the 1000 things as printed in time out.

Link here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robot_in_catford/sets/72157600207556710/

Drop me a line if you want any tips. Would love to hear how you are getting on with it (that's i you are still at it)

Cheers
Adam