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Mychael Barratt: Notes From the Underground

A full key to all 270 underground destinations and illustrations by printmaker Mychael Barratt

By Scott Phillips | 06 Sept 2013

Notes From the Underground

Notes from the Underground by Mychael Barratt

This year, in Honor of TFL's 150th Anniversary, engraver and Printmaker Mychael Barratt has produced a relief print and etching comprising four plates printed side by side in a manner reminiscent of an ancient folding map. The print represents every station on the London Tube Map. Listed below, is the full key for each station representation.

This edition is limited to 100 hand numbered and signed prints by the artist.

 

Notes From the Underground: Full Key

  Acton Town - The Who were from Acton   Aldgate - No. 30 St Mary Axe – ‘affectionately known as The Gherkin’   Aldgate East - Whitechapel Art Gallery   Alperton - Costume from Diwali celebrations   Amersham - Market Hall   Angel - Raphael angel   Archway - Vanished Banksy graffito   Arnos Grove - Arnos Grove station designed by Charles Holden   Arsenal - Arsenal Football Club icon   Baker Street - Sherlock Holmes   Balham - Book shop ‘My Back Pages’ named after Bob Dylan song   Bank - Bank of England as designed by Sir John Soanes   Barbican - Violin as the Barbican is the home of the London Symphony Orchestra   Barking - Dog barking   Barkingside - Fulwell Cross Library   Barons Court - Artist’s studio on the Talgarth Road   Bayswater - Marconi invents the wireless radio   Becontree - Home of the Becontree Brass Band   Belsize Park - Raleigh bike from Les Bicyclettes de Belsize   Bermondsey - Tank from corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk   Bethnal Green - ‘Muffin the Mule’ from the Museum of Childhood   Blackfriars - Statue from the Blackfriars pub   Blackhorse Road - Tile motif from Tube Station   Bond Street - Prada handbag   Borough - Cezanne’s pears from Borough Market   Boston Manor - Boston Manor House   Bounds Green - Rock group ‘UFO’ was formed in Bounds Green   Bow Road - Mahatma Ghandi stayed in Kingsley Hall in Bow in 1931   Brent Cross - Trolley from the country’s first shopping mall   Brixton - David Bowie was born in Brixton   Bromley-by-bow - St Leonard’s Priory   Buckhurst Hill - Welcome to Buckhurst Hill sign   Burnt Oak - DJ and journalist Robert Elms was born in Burnt Oak   Caledonian Road - Housmans Radical Bookshop   Camden Town - Quintessential 1970’s punk   Canada Water - Canada Dry tonic water   Canary Wharf - Name came from connection with the Canary Islands rather than actual bird…   Canning Town - Tin of sardines   Cannon Street - London Stone from 111 Cannon Street   Canons Park - Handel is made Composer in Residence at St Lawrence Whitchurch   Chalfont and Latimer - John Milton retired to Chalfont St Giles to complete Paradise Lost   Chalk Farm - The Roundhouse   Chancery Lane - Sceptre taken from the painting ‘The Court of Chancery’ by Benjamin Ferrars   Charing Cross - David Gentleman artwork from Charing Cross Station   Chesham - Roger Crab, 17c haberdasher upon whom the Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter was based   Chigwell - Chigwell barrage balloons employed in WWII   Chiswick Park - William Hogarth’s dog   Chorleywood - Famous for the Chorleywood Bread Making Process   Clapham Common - ‘The man from the Clapham Omnibus’ symbolised the common man   Clapham North - Graham Greene, author of The Third Man was born here   Clapham South - George Jennings invented the ‘Monkey Closet’ or public lavatory   Cockfosters - Famous Fosters Beer advert with Paul Hogan   Colindale - Frigidaire had a factory in Colindale   Colliers Wood - Henry VI was crowned at Merton Abbey   Covent Garden - Area famous for Punch and Judy shows   Croxley - Croxley Mill   Dagenham East - Ford Cortina   Dagenham Heathway - Ford Anglia   Debden - Home of the Postal Museum   Dollis Hill - The colossus computer of Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill   Ealing Broadway - Home of actor Sid James   Ealing Common - Home of tennis ace and fashion label icon Fred Perry   Earls Court - Kangaroo symbolising large Australian community   East Acton - Wormwood Scrubs prison   East Finchley - Sculpture by Eric Aumonier of a kneeling archer   East Ham - Weathervane   East Putney - Marc Bolan lived in East Putney   Eastcote - Highgrove House   Edgware - Stained glass window from the Hale Lane Synagogue   Edgware Road - Famous for its shisha bars   Elephant and Castle - Statue, which is a symbol of the area   Elm Park - Elm leaves   Embankment - Sphinx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle on the Victoria Embankment   Epping - Epping Forest   Euston - George Bernard Shaw has a theatre named after him on the Euston Road   Euston Square - Charles Darwin lived near Euston Square   Fairlop - Fairlop Airfield Memorial   Farringdon - Smithfields Market porter   Finchley Central - Harry Beck’s iconic Tube map is commemorated here   Finchley Road - Charles de Gaulle lived nearby in Frognal   Finsbury Road - John Lydon aka ‘Johnny Rotten’ was born in Finsbury Park   Fulham Broadway - Marco Pierre White’s signature pig’s trotters at ‘Marco’, Fulham Road   Gants Hill - Commemorative Russian style tube sign as LU advised Moscow   Gloucester Road - Sir John Everett Millais’s painting Bubbles   Golders Green - Chollah bread representing large Jewish community   Goldhawk Road - Cooke’s pie and mash shop   Goodge Street - The Post Office Tower   Grange Hill - Roland Browning from the long running television series Grange Hill   Great Portland Street - Stethoscope symbolising the doctors of nearby Harley Street   Greenford - London Motorcycle Centre   Green Park - Buckingham Palace is nearby   Gunnersbury - Gothic boathouse from Gunnersbury Park   Hainault - Tube platform   Hammersmith - Home of artist Mary Feddon   Hampstead - Sigmund Freud lived in Hampstead   Hangar Lane - Twyford Abbey   Harlesden - Jubilee Clock   Harrow & Wealdstone - The ‘Wealdstone’   Harrow on the Hill - School boy from Harrow School   Hatton Cross - The Urban Farm   Heathrow 1, 2 and 3 - Luggage symbolising long haul flights,   Heathrow 4 - medium haul flights   Heathrow 5 - and short haul flights   Hendon Central - Pilot symbolising the Hendon Aerodrome   High Barnet - From the Cockney rhyming slang for ‘hair’   Highbury and Islington - The Highbury Clock   Highgate - Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetery   High Street Kensington - Famous 1960s shop Biba was on High Street Kensington   Hillingdon - Home of penicillin discoverer Alexander Fleming   Holborn - Lewis chess piece from the British Museum   Holland Park - A peacock of Holland Park   Holloway Road - Edward Lear lived in Holloway   Hornchurch - Hornchurch RAF base   Hounslow Central - Classical house ‘The Lawn’   Hounslow East - Birthplace of musician Phil Collins   Hounslow West - Birthplace of actor Jack Wild   Hyde Park Corner - Wellington Arch   Ickenham - Swakeley’s House   Kennington - Charlie Chaplin live in Kennington as a child (although he was born in Walworth)   Kensal Green - Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine – precursor to the computer   Kensington (Olympia) - Classical Olympic sculpture   Kentish Town - Kentish Town was renowned for piano manufacturers and shops   Kenton - All Saints Church Tower   Kew Gardens - Kew Gardens Japanese pagoda   Kilburn - Ian Dury from band ‘Kilburn and the High Roads’   Kilburn Park - Tricycle Theatre   Kingsbury - Jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine was born in Kingsbury   Kings Cross - Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni is buried under platform 9 of Kings Cross Station   Knightsbridge - Soldier from the Knightsbridge Horse Guards   Ladbroke Grove - From the cover of ‘London Calling’ by The Clash   Lambeth North - The name comes from landing place for lambs   Lancaster Gate - Peter Pan sculpture from Kensington Gardens   Latimer Road - The Westway   Leicester Square - Chinese soup bowl to represent Soho and Chinatown   Leyton - Leyton was heavily bombed by Zeppelins in WWI   Leytonstone - Alfred Hitchcock was born here   Liverpool Street - Richard Serra sculpture ‘Inside Fulcrum’   London Bridge - The Canterbury Tales started at a tavern close to London Bridge Station   Loughton - ‘Rock Drill’ as Sculptor Jacob Epstein lived here   Maida Vale - Bradley Wiggins was born in Maida Vale   Manor House - Clissold House from Clissold Park   Mansion House - The Lord Mayor’s ceremonial carriage   Marble Arch - The location of the Tyburn Tree where public executions were held   Marylebone - Original location of the Marylebone Cricket Club   Mile End - Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture ‘House’ at 193 Grove Road, Mile End   Mill Hill - East University of London’s Observatory in Mill Hill   Monument - Pudding Lane was where the Great Fire of London began in 1666   Moorgate - John Keats was born at the Swan and Hoop Inn, 199 Moorgate   Moor Park - Moor Park Golf Club   Morden - Joseph Bazalgette, designer of the London Sewer Network lived here   Mornington Crescent - Willie Rushton invented the game ‘Mornington Crescent’ on the radio show I’m sorry I haven’t a clue   Neasden - Sculpture from the façade of the Neasden Temple   Newbury Park - Newbury Park   North Acton - Tim Burton’s Batman was filmed in the Acton Lane Power Station   North Ealing - North Ealing lamppost   North Greenwich - The O2 Centre   North Harrow - Lord Byron went to school at Harrow   North Wembley - Soul and R & B singer Maxine Nightingale was born here   Northfields - Architect Charles Holden’s Northfields Station   Northolt - ‘Northala Fields’ – four large man-made hills   Northwick Park - Ambulance symbolising Northwick Park Hospital   Northwood - Director Derek Jarman lived here   Northwood Hills - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury cleared Northwood Hills of trees   Notting Hill Gate - Home of the Notting Hill Carnival   Oakwood - Ancient ice well   Old Street - Tube train studios on a roof in nearby Shoreditch   Osterley - Osterley Park House   Oval - The Oval Gasomoter   Oxford Circus - Stanley Green, the Protein Man was a fixture of Oxford Street   Paddington - Home of Lord Baden Powell who started the Boy Scouts   Park Royal - Guiness factory   Parsons Green - The Fulham Pottery   Perivale - Entrance to the Hoover Building on Western Avenue   Piccadilly Circus - Alfred Gilbert’s statue of the Greek God Anteros popularly mistaken as Eros   Pimlico - Home of artist Aubrey Beardsley   Pinner - Elton John (Reginald Dwight) was born in Pinner   Plaistow - Dick Turpin   Preston Road - Sign from the Preston Tavern   Putney Bridge - Cardinal Wolsey crossed the river at Putney in 1529   Queen’s Park - Queen’s Park Library   Queensbury - Station is on Honeypot Lane   Queensway - Whiteleys Shopping Centre   Ravenscourt Park - Ravenscourt Park Café once the stable block of Ravenscourt House   Rayner’s Lane -Grosvenor Cinema now converted to a Zoroastrian Centre   Redbridge - Redbridge Town Hall   Regent’s Park - Home of London Zoo   Richmond - Deer from Richmond Park   Rickmansworth - Home of George Orwell   Roding Valley - Windmill   Royal Oak - Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed the first ever iron bridge ‘Bishop’s Bridge’   Ruisip - Home of cinematographer Oswald Morris who filmed ‘Fiddler on the Roof’   Ruislip Gardens - Actor Andy Serkis, ‘Gollum’ from Lord of the Rings was born here   Ruislip Manor - Ruislip Manor Farm   Russell Square - Charles Dickens lived nearby at 48 Doughty Street   St James’s Park - Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais in Victoria Tower Gardens   St John’s Wood - The Beatles from the album cover of Abbey Road   St Paul’s - St Pauls Cathedral   Seven Sisters - The musician Dave Clark was from Seven Sisters   Shepherds Bush - Steptoe and Son was filmed and based in Shepherds Bush   Shepherd’s Bush Market - Sign from Shepherds Bush Market   Sloane Square - Venus fountain in Sloane Square   Snaresbrook - Swan from Eagle Pond   South Ealing - Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery   South Kensington - Dodo from the Natural History Museum   South Harrow - Home of politician Screaming Lord Sutch   South Kenton - Cricketer Denis Compton was from Kenton   South Ruislip - Mary Bankes-Hawtry was a Royalist figure during the English Civil War   South Wimbledon - Home of the Wimbledon College of Art   South Woodford - Head of the Suffragette movement Sylvia Pankhurst lived here   Southfields - Home of the author George Eliot   Southgate - The singer Amy Winehouse was born in Southgate   Southwark - William Shakespeare as the Shakespeare Globe Theatre is on Bankside   Stamford Brook - The Raven Public House   Stanmore - Roger Moore lived in Stanmore   Stepney Green - St Dunstan Church   Stockwell - Vincent van Gogh lived briefly in Stockwell   Stonebridge Park - McVities Biscuit Factory was here   Stratford - Mo Farah winning the 10,000 metre gold medal at the 2012 Olympics   Sudbury Hill - Dev Patel, star of Slumdog Millionaire was born in Sudbury   Sudbury - Town Express Dairy   Swiss Cottage - Cuckoo clock   Temple - Statue of two poor knights sharing a horse from in front of a 12c Templar Church   Theydon Bois - Theydon Bois Avenue of Trees   Tooting Bec - Taken from apocryphal story of tourists mistakenly being taken to Tooting Common during the Tutankhamen exhibition   Tooting Broadway - Home of greyhound racetrack ‘Wimbledon Stadium’   Tottenham Court Road - Portrait of local man on the Fitzrovia Mural   Tottenham Hale - Luke Howard invented the scientific classification for clouds   Totteridge & Whetstone - Arsene Wenger, manager of Arsenal FC live in Totteridge   Tower Hill - One of the Tower’s ravens   Tufnell Park - Roofline of the Boston Towers tavern   Turnham Green - Battle of Turnham Green was fought here during the English Civil War   Turnpike Lane - Banksy graffito removed and sold in an American auction house   Upminster - Rev. William Derham accurately calculated the speed of sound   Upminster Bridge - Upminster Windmill   Upney - Eastbury Manor   Upton Park - Home of West Ham United FC   Uxbridge - John Rich the father of English pantomime lived here   Vauxhall - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia visited Vauxhall   Victoria - Queen Victoria   Walthamstow Central - William Morris   Wanstead - James Pound discovers Saturn’s satellites   Warren Street - Rabbit   Warwick Avenue - Houseboat from Little Venice   Waterloo - Napoleon   Watford - Salters Gardens Almshouses   Wembley Central - The stadium of the home of English Football   Wembley Park - A football   West Acton - Home of actor Adam Faith, famous for his starring role in Budgie   West Brompton - Wild Bill Cody’s show came to Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre   West Finchley - Terry Thomas lived in West Finchley   West Ham - Weathervane   West Hampstead - Home of Winnie the Pooh author A A Milne   West Harrow - Home of Roger Bannister, first man to break the 4-minute mile   West Kensington - Home of racing car driver Stirling Moss   West Ruislip - Brian Connely, lead singe of the group ‘Sweet’ lived here   Westbourne Park - Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower   Westminster - Big Ben   White City - The marathon distance was set at the 1908 Olympics as the distance between   White City Stadium - and Windsor Castle – 26 miles and 285 yards   Whitechapel - Gilbert and George live nearby in Spitalfields   Willesden Green - Home of the famous Spotted Dog public house   Willesden Junction - Willesden Junction Library   Wimbledon - Uncle Bulgaria from The Wombles   Wimbledon Park - Strawberries, the favourite staple of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament   Wood Lane - Historic home of the BBC   Woodford - Winston Churchill was the MP for Woodford   Woodside Park - Spike Milligan lived in Woodside Park   Wood Green - Alexandra Park antenna    

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