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Shepherd’s Bush Market station may have been a more suitable suggestion for Shepherd’s Bush Market, although perhaps too obvious, and to be fair the market does stretch between the two stations equally.
Gosh, those were the days when London was packed full of university zoological museums!

Also the art gallery that is perfect for art lovers... this is a truly rubbish description of a unique gallery.

Going back to maybe 2001, I used to write area guides for BBC / TFL, which were printed as mini booklets and available for free at train stations. I used to visit the areas with my camera, talk to locals, find the best places to go, call up places to ask about wheelchair access (some were so cagey), and try to make the mini descriptions accurate but lively. It was a fun freelance job when I was in my early twenties. I truly hope I made a better stab at it than this leaflet!
You did, Jayne, as I mentioned in this 2013 post. A much better stab, thanks.
I am not even sure that it is true about the only remaining university museum of zoology - the Museum of Life Sciences by Guy's Hospital (King's College London) has an awesome hippo skull.
I went to the Grant Museum following a recommendation from ianVisits, small & compact but well worth a visit.
Museum of Brands is worth a visit, especially if you are of a certain age.
Dogs are banned from all of the interesting bits of Regent's Park, including Avenue Gardens where that fountain is, so the people in the picture are committing an offence.

Something for everyone, including scofflaws.
I must say that coming in from the east to visit the zoo we always used Great Portland Street. The walk is within Regents Park so was rather pleasant.

Ah the Museum of Brands - I’ve spent many hours there seeing how marketing used to be. You’re right I am of a certain age!!

For a major organisation this is pretty poor overall though but I’m afraid what I’ve come to expect from tfl.
My sister and I separately visited the Museum of Brands on a Saturday, and each of us met Robert Opie himself and chatted. Maybe he's often there on a Saturday. He was keen to know how we discovered the museum.

I asked him how many things he had, and he chose yoghurt pots as an example - 70,000...
And that was around 10 years ago.
As the Barbican actually employs curators - a real job title - to put together their Cinema programme, it doesn’t feel inappropriate to describe that programme as “curated” - more a statement of fact. Although, of course, the word is often used for motley collections of all kinds of other stuff which haven’t been curated in the slightest...
The Bow Road/Art Pavilion choice is utterly bewildering. Ignoring that the venue is (sadly) in no way a reliable place to visit for some art, I'm struggling to understand the resources that were referred to make that match. I'd hope a map was looked at or at least TfL's own app!

I'm spending too much time trying to work out the logic behind selecting Bow Road over the correct Mile End. I can only come up with Bow Road being next to Bow Church so linking in with the DLR sightseeing map. But you'd need to know that yourself already or look it up on a map at which point you would decide to go to Mile End station instead... Bewildering.
So, now we know that there are more yoghurt pots than animals. Who knew !! The money would be better spent on providing a service.
People who don't really get transport, or indeed geography? Oh it was never about that. It was all about targeting KPIs, customer segmentation, organisational pillars, 'builds' (of the non-construction about a Crossrail station variety), brand awareness and effortlessly invigorating the TfL image by encouraging the audience to live and breathe its values or some other marketing department waffle.
When I first moved to London in 2006, the Piccadilly Line had such in-car maps already. So it's obviously an even older idea.
Paddington Library seems an odd choice as there doesn't seem to be anything to suggest this library is special in any way. Presumably most people would just join whichever library was most convenient to where they live or go to school etc. rather than making a special trip on the H&C line.
Also the library in the illustration is the adult library, not the children's library.
And of course unless you are a local resident or worker you won't be able to take any books out of the library.
These posters appear to be earlier designs given a quick reissue to stimulate post-lockdown leisure travel. The District Line version carries the 2019 ‘District 150’ logo.
Bow Road station is closer to the Nunnery Gallery.

dg writes: That's on the DLR map (for Bow Church)










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