Hampstead & Highgate

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You don't find something like this parked at Waterloo very often.
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Mornington Crescent station has been wonderfully restored after years of neglect and near-closure.
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Incidentally, flash photography on the Underground is forbidden for very good reasons. All the photos of the Underground here were taken using available light.
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Camden Town. Change here for the High Barnet branch, London Zoo, and the offices of Hotblack Desiato, estate agent.
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Pub at Archway.
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Detail of the Dick Whittington stone on Highgate Hill, from where Whittington is said to have heard the bells of London calling him back. Nowadays he'd just hear traffic, but at least he could take the Tube back to town.
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The Whittington connection is...
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...widely commemorated...
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...in the area.
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Places to store tin boxes with wheels are a big political issue in London.
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View across London from Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath. The BT Tower is in the foreground, with the BBC's Crystal Palace transmitter tower in the background on the left, and NTL (formerly the IBA)'s Croydon transmitter on the right.
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Docklands and the Dome...
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...and the Erotic Gherkin.
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Crystal Palace tower at full zoom (optical plus digital). Lecture on antenna arrays to follow, or maybe not.
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Hampstead Heath station on the North London Line - designed to look like a public toilet as well as smell like one.
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Original CCE&HR Yerkes-era tilework at Belsize Park station.