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I bet this has come up in pub quizzes but a question in the Times general knowledge crossword today - one of six London Underground stations named after pubs (5,4) I haven't looked it up by I'm guessing Burnt Oak. What the other five are I don't know.
Five and then three letters so i can only think of Royal Oak or Burnt Oak too but will go with Royal Oak as i used to go to school near there and my best mate at the time lived around the corner and I’m sure it was named after a local pub.
Not the answer to the crossword clue (wrong number of letters and the Tube is named after the district), but it brought this to mind: "According to the Dictionary of London Place Names (2001), Swiss Cottage is named after an inn called The Swiss Tavern that was built in 1804 in the style of a Swiss chalet on the site of a former tollgate keeper's cottage, and later renamed Swiss Inn and in the early 20th century Swiss Cottage."
My favourite fact is to do with the original tiling on the station platforms. Most stations were built at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. When completed each station had a unique tile design on the platforms also using different colour schemes. This was done because at the time there were so many people that could not read so people identified stations by tile design rather than name.
My favourite fact is to do with the original tiling on the station platforms. Most stations were built at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. When completed each station had a unique tile design on the platforms also using different colour schemes. This was done because at the time there were so many people that could not read so people identified stations by tile design rather than name.
So too with pubs and their signs depicting bulls, cows, deers etc. Lucky they kept that going….
My favourite fact is to do with the original tiling on the station platforms. Most stations were built at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. When completed each station had a unique tile design on the platforms also using different colour schemes. This was done because at the time there were so many people that could not read so people identified stations by tile design rather than name.
This very scheme persists in one station only on the network and that is Fulham Broadway. Every fortnight or so, hordes of illiterate mouth-breathers descend upon this station in a migratory wave sociologists cannot understand. Some have evolved enough to roar "CHELTH" sporadically and for no apparent reason.
For a time, even pictures of club captains, leaders and legends in full kit confused the horde, so these were augmented with a man-made odour of corruption and failure to indicate it was time to disembark.
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