please empty your brain below
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In Bristol, you'd come a cropper on route 4...
Colly | 10.04.21 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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A post of two parts. Each with enough intrinsic interest to stand alone. There is probably a graph theory name for the property you describe, but if there isn't then one could be coined.
Malcolm of Kent | 10.04.21 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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I (think I) know a tease when I see one.. so am looking forward to the remainder of the series.
Frank F | 10.04.21 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Thanks DG, I didn’t know any of this history. Maybe you walked past me yesterday, it’s part of my daily walk while I’m recovering from 7 months stuck in bed with cancer - in the past month averaging 10k steps.
I love Highbury Fields early in the day before it gets busy. Several regulars work out with personal trainers; group keep fit classes started this week outside the leisure centre (next to a well tended herb garden); dogs play running games while their owners chat; there are joggers, elderly walkers, cyclists & scooter riders; three magnolias have flowered in the last 2 weeks & there’s a small flock of starlings (black headed gulls too but they’re gone now until August).
The tennis courts & football pitches are busy & there’s a small queue at the pop up coffee stall which you probably saw outside the church by the clock tower.
From there it’s an easy walk east to Clissold Park or west to Paradise Park (with its city farm) or, on a bad day, back to Arsenal stadium to climb up & down some stairs & return home.
Toni | 10.04.21 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Lovely article DG
Spent the first 23 years of my life growing up around Highbury.
Ironically I moved out and it got trendy.
Terry Ash | 10.04.21 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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I’m thinking the A10 and U3 might also pose a problem bearing in mind the popularity of Heathrow Airport Central/Uxbridge Station as termini for other routes which in turn also terminate at popular destinations - eg Kingston Cromwell Road Bus Station (as you highlight), Ruislip Station and West Croydon.
Roger French | Homepage | 10.04.21 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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I am interested in the use of the word "obviously" in this sentence.... "
No, I'm not doing a long-running series reporting back from London bus termini, obviously I'm not." because it does rather seem like the sort of thing you might do
Ian | 10.04.21 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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If it’s not obvious, you haven’t thought carefully enough about the unrelenting time-consuming tediousness of a prolonged predetermined series.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.04.21 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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"it does also have a Greggs and a launderette" - the maids have to go somewhere for their lunch and to clean the duvet.
Scott | Homepage | 10.04.21 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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Such a series might be long, but not tedious: not tedious for us readers, as you have a way of writing that never fails to make the most superficially-unpromising topic charming and informative; possibly not tedious for you, either, if taken as a challenge.
I wonder whether you have the wrong way around the test presented by bus routes whose termini coincide: instead of trying to find work-arounds to make each route's report unique, could you not focus on the termini rather than on the routes, and celebrate the fact that a given terminus can boast many routes? That what be a shorter series, but I wonder - further - how much shorter it could then be?
Martin | 10.04.21 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Stop wondering. No.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.04.21 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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I imagine that only a handful of bus route termini are truly pretty, a larger amount are downright ugly, but the vast majority are pretty ugly! Cue for a league table of each of the 3 categories to take shape.
Bob S | 10.04.21 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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I was a bus driver at Victoria Garage for many years and often worked on route 19, sometimes if we were running late we would be given a curtailment to the Highbury Barn bus stand which was always much nicer than having to face the crowds at Finsbury park bus station.
fishislandskin | 10.04.21 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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Train termini would probably be easier - but no doubt you've done that already!
Cornish Cockney | 10.04.21 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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I will happily read anything DG cares to write as long as it has such choice phrases as "and at present lightly daffodilled."
Man of Kent | 10.04.21 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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Great stuff! An occasional series would be fine - no need for the fascinating to be the enemy of the super-comprehensive. I lived opposite the southern terminus of Route 2 for a year or so when it was in Myton Road...
cau1khead | 10.04.21 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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Grew up near Highbury Fields, and accompanied mother on shopping trips to "the Barn". The butchers still belongs to the same family, appropriately upgraded now. Used to be a typical sawdust on the floor shop, and I don't think they need ration books these days. Groceries were from Stevens & Steeds, in pre-supermarket times.
Keith | 10.04.21 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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The postulated sequence would be possible if the graph (termini, routes) had an orientation without a vertex of out-degree greater than 1. Which you have neatly demonstrated is not possible with TfL's actual bus routes today.
Malcolm of Kent | 10.04.21 - 3:09 p.m. | #
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No photo of the daffodils?
Leuconoe | 10.04.21 - 5:43 p.m. | #
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No photo of the daffodils.
(or the ride-on mower, sorry)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.04.21 - 5:46 p.m. | #
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My son used to go football training on Highbury Fields.
A few of us dads headed of to the Fromagerie for coffee (you can’t watch training for two hours every week).
Sitting there & in bowls Nigel Slater buying his cheese.
It was then we realised South Hackney had a way to go before it went full Islington.
John DLC | 10.04.21 - 8:54 p.m. | #
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Thamesmead bus terminus also has an adjacent clock tower. Any similarity with Highbury Fields ends there.
H SE18 | 10.04.21 - 9:49 p.m. | #
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I think the logic behind the red explanation is flawed. You would present the termini, not the routes. And termini are geographical locations, such as squares and street corners. Of course you would never repeat yourself, just move on to the next one.
Greg S | 11.04.21 - 12:50 a.m. | #
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Route 236, from inception until 1934 was also a 263, but never was allowed (not on blinds) to curtail at Highbury Barn until the early 1980s. Using Highbury New Park instead.
Fishislandskin also worked along with me as a driver on the 236.
IsarSteve | Homepage | 11.04.21 - 12:09 p.m. | #
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Hello DG,
the link "262" does not work. Obviously the linked page does not exist.
Michael Krause | 11.04.21 - 8:12 p.m. | #
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It's not Ars*n*l tube station, it's Gillespie Road to us locals. Arsenal is in Woolwich.
Johnny Topaz | 12.04.21 - 11:15 a.m. | #
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