please empty your brain below
MMMMMMMMMMagnificent!

NLW | 25.04.17 - 7:02 a.m. | #

Marvelous!

Martin | 25.04.17 - 7:09 a.m. | #

Mhmmagical!

Geofftech | 25.04.17 - 7:16 a.m. | #

Mmmmmade mmmy day!

(Seriously though, this was a lovely antidote to your more serious posts over the last couple of days. Thank you!)

Amused | 25.04.17 - 7:40 a.m. | #

A while back I flew into London for a short visit. I got the coach from Stansted to Liverpool Street - and as we came under the flyover there it was - the most famous landmark of East London - Bus Stop M!!! The highlight of my trip by far.

Jonathan | 25.04.17 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Great read. The stop before the tunnel is quite something.

Kevin | 25.04.17 - 7:50 a.m. | #

Mmmmmmmmattessons.

Andrew | 25.04.17 - 7:51 a.m. | #

Bert will enjoy this post.

Frank F | 25.04.17 - 7:57 a.m. | #

Clearly time for a survey of the most and least used bus stop signifiers. Is there a bus stop Z anywhere in London?

Autolycus | Homepage | 25.04.17 - 8:14 a.m. | #

Bus stops with empathy!

Sara | 25.04.17 - 8:25 a.m. | #

Bus Stop M-eta

EonLeader | 25.04.17 - 8:53 a.m. | #

Autolycus: Loads. Closest to our stop M probably Windmill Lane, Stratford

scrumpy | 25.04.17 - 9:03 a.m. | #

Bus stop M’s of London, unite!….You have nothing to lose but your insignificance.

Michael | 25.04.17 - 9:05 a.m. | #

Bus stop double m.
Such a treat

Louise | 25.04.17 - 9:14 a.m. | #

Splendid collection!

I think, considerig its history, the first 'bus-stop M in your collection should be 'infamous' rather than 'famous'?

John U.K. | 25.04.17 - 9:15 a.m. | #

Ridiculously happy to read today's post!!

Cornish Cockney | 25.04.17 - 9:28 a.m. | #

Mmmarvellous! More posts like this one please! It made my day!

Adam | 25.04.17 - 10:05 a.m. | #

Over fifty years after its demise, the LCC crests still linger on, I see. How many more are there around?

Appreciate it's difficult to photograph the plaque at the Blackwall tunnel from the pavement. Google Street View managed to get a better angle on it from the fast lane.
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Looks like it could do with some cleaning, but given its proximity to one of the busiest roads in London, that's hardly surprising.

timbo | 25.04.17 - 10:09 a.m. | #

The first M photo shows more stupidity of putting the cycle lane between the bus stop island and the pavement - the litter bin is on the pavement, so as can be seen the waiting passengers throw their cups and cans across the cycle lane in an attempt to hit the bin, and the poor sodding cyclists have to cycle through the ensuing litter.

Joho | 25.04.17 - 10:31 a.m. | #

There is a rather distorted photo of the plaque here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackwall_tunnel_plaque.jpg

Looks to me like Father Thames in the middle, Industry to his left and Art to his right, and a rather neat image of men pushing little wagons along a track in a tunnel under the inscription. It seems the plaque was removed from the northern gatehouse when it was demolished to make way for the second tunnel in 1959. The southern gatehouse remains and is now listed.

Andrew | 25.04.17 - 10:41 a.m. | #

That was a waste of four hours work.

Mark | 25.04.17 - 11:21 a.m. | #

@Mark
Money back if not satisfied

| 25.04.17 - 12:01 p.m. | #

One of my earliest London memories is a long wait at the Blackwall Tunnel bus stop M on a cold wet weekday afternoon, thinking this must be the most desolate place in London.

langdon | 25.04.17 - 12:12 p.m. | #

Andrew: that plaque picture is amazing. And to think that its partner, if you are right, got thrown in a skip.

The inscription over the southbound tunnel, starring Desmond Plummer, is not quite so wonderful.

Malcolm | 25.04.17 - 12:46 p.m. | #

>>I'm starting at Tower Hamlets' most famous Bus Stop M...

I see from the photo that the usual lazy dirty bastards who can't be bopthered to put their rubbish in a rubbish bin have been about. Britain seems overrun with these selfish halfwits.

| 25.04.17 - 2:04 p.m. | #

Malcolm - perhaps I was not clear: this is the plaque that was removed from the gatehouse at the north end of the tunnel before it was demolished, and moved here. I'm not aware of a plaque being thrown in a skip.

Andrew | 25.04.17 - 2:19 p.m. | #

Andrew: I see. Afraid it was me being obtuse rather than any lack of clarity in your comment. Should not detract from it being a lovely item.

Malcolm | 25.04.17 - 4:07 p.m. | #

My flat and street name has made it onto the hallowed pages of diamond geezer.

Oh and the darling row bus stop has been shut for ages.

Lumma | 25.04.17 - 4:50 p.m. | #

@ Langdon - there are a few stops on the A406 which possibly come close in the desolation, noise and "gassed by fumes" stakes to Stop M at the Blackwall Tunnel. Perhaps a new theme for DG to explore - London's "most ghastly to wait at" bus stops?

I nominate High Road South Woodford (route 123), Ravenside / Eley Trading Estates (routes 34/444) and East End Road (route 232) as candidates. All horrible noisy and rather isolated places to both access and wait at.

PC | 25.04.17 - 5:22 p.m. | #

@PC, I agree about the stops for the 123 in South Woodford, the approaches are very isolated and on the westbound side the ramp (down to the stop) is surrounded by trees, but I think the scenery is a bit better to look at than the Blackwall Tunnel stop

amber | 25.04.17 - 8:48 p.m. | #

But of the many bus stops DG, are there any in Tower Hamlets?

dg writes; That's another post :)

Mike D | 25.04.17 - 9:39 p.m. | #

Mmmmmmmortified to realise I have a bus stop M just round the corner from me, and I'd never noticed before!
Lovely post today, Classic DG stuff.

IslandDweller | 25.04.17 - 10:41 p.m. | #

Last Friday I waited at Bus Stop M for the Blackwall Tunnel (the second stop described in this post). I didn't remember reading this post about it. I was struck by how well hidden the bus stop is. But when I saw that it was an M, I guessed that there might be a dg post about it somewhere. The post was easier to find than the bus stop.

I'd never been through the tunnel before, so I had quite an exciting bus ride.

JonathanC | 27.03.18 - 11:33 a.m. | #











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