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The Tube Map


The Great Bear

"The Great Bear" is an artwork by Simon Patterson from 1992. It's the London Underground Tube map, but the artist has used each line to represent groups of people, from saints to explorers, so each station is a famous person. The comedian Spike Milligan is included – he had a cameo role in "Monty Python's Life Of Brian".

Thames Tunnel

The Brunel Museum organises floodlit tours of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel aboard east London line Tube trains. It was the first tunnel to be built under a river anywhere in the world.

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My favourite Icon of England has to be the Cornish Pasty.

Ian Baldry

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