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The effects of the fares freeze?

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100andthirty | 22.02.20 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Marylebone to Baker Street is a less than 10 minutes walk.

Tony Martin | 22.02.20 - 9:22 a.m. | #

Ah, I see the myth of Bannister being the forst to run a mile in under 4 minutes is being perpetuated ....
Parrott in 1770 (maybe) & Weller in 1796 (certainly) did it in the time.
BUT - They did it for MONEY - so it didn't count according to the snobs & "Healthy cols sports" bastards of the 1850's & since...
Wiki quote here.

Theo Wrist | 22.02.20 - 9:34 a.m. | #

Those wishing to make the most of a tourist free Bicester Village will find that there are still two direct trains an hour from Marylebone, though one still has to take account of the Bakerloo Line closure.

Centraluser | 22.02.20 - 11:02 a.m. | #

They runed the IWM its really not worth the bother to visit since the accountants took over running it for the benefit of the media types who just want to get visitor numbers up because no one ever wants to come back since it takes 2 hours to see everything. In the old days you could come every Saturday for a month and still not see every thing in the galleries!

Andrew Jarman | 22.02.20 - 12:14 p.m. | #

I was not aware of the Royal Academy of Music Museum, so thanks for that I shall try and make a visit, pity I have missed the Song and Dance musical theatre exhibit.

John | 22.02.20 - 2:44 p.m. | #

I visited the IWM recently and hadn't been for probably 40 odd years. They have ruined it IMO just like the kiddyfying of the Covent Garden LT museum. All for tourists and not the interested historian. Poor!!

Fred | 22.02.20 - 5:06 p.m. | #

Kilburn station on the Jubilee Line and Kilburn Park station sound as they should be fairly close together, but in fact they're almost a mile apart at opposite ends of Kilburn High Road.

Speaking as a local resident, there's not much to recommend Kilburn anyway, apart possibly the Kiln Theatre,(formerly the Tricycle Theatre) if that's your type of thing.

Richard | 22.02.20 - 6:40 p.m. | #

Anything with the words Imperial and War in its title, should be off limits to school kids. Just like sugar and fatty foods are. Teach them how bad both Empire & War really were, rather then glorifying the whole thing. WW1 was an imperial adventure for the U.K. and at the end of it the country came away with yet more colonies, but at what cost? Posing with torpedos.. bahh.

Steve | Homepage | 22.02.20 - 7:59 p.m. | #

I'm not sure how you are going to teach school children about the First World War and the British Empire without using the words "war" and "imperial", Steve, but good luck.

As for "glorifying war", that is not the impression I got from, for example, the IWM's holocaust exhibition.

Sadly, much of the current cabinet seem to have learned their history from the likes of "Our Island Story". But "Horrible Histories" seems to be doing a much better job for the current generation of youngsters.

Andrew | 22.02.20 - 8:38 p.m. | #

Andrew - Thanks for making my point..

What has the holocaust got to do with war..?

The Wannsee Conference didn't happen until January 1942. The Second World war began in September 1939.

The United Kingdom DID NOT dcelare war on Germany because of the oppression of the Jews, Gays or Gypsies. The misconception continues that the British were fighting against the holocaust.

It's time that the majority of school kids and some adults, actually learnt what really happened in WW2 and the holocaust and not be immersed in the the jingoistic victor's propaganda.

Steve | Homepage | 23.02.20 - 9:35 a.m. | #

Cambridge Avenue was far pleasanter to stroll up and down yesterday without the usual hordes fighting their way to and from Kilburn Park station.

Strabismus | 23.02.20 - 3:41 p.m. | #











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