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The Watts Church Crawl (Part the 20th) Tower Hill - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the 20th) Tower Hill
Since it’s opening in 1884, the name Tower Hill has been applied to no less than three stations in this vicinity: The first Tower Hill (I), (on which the present Tower Hill... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Nineteenth) Aldgate - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Nineteenth) Aldgate
Continuing round we come to Aldgate: the only station which is passed through solely by the Circle line (it is also the terminus of the Metropolitan line). Of itself, it is a... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Eighteenth) Liverpool Street - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Eighteenth) Liverpool Street
Another very bustling, very busy station; the gateway to East Anglia. It has had something of a checkered history since its opening. It replaced an earlier station (Bishopsgate) in 1874, which... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Seventeenth) Moorgate - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Seventeenth) Moorgate
Service has been somewhat slow (it’s our busy time, after all), and here we finally are at Moorgate, which turns out to be an hotbed of Non-conformism, which looking at... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Sixteenth) Barbican - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Sixteenth) Barbican
There is, it must be said, something depressing about Barbican station. It was somewhat dilapidated (well, it was a bombsite until the 80s); there have also been one or two... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Fifteenth) Farringdon - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Fifteenth) Farringdon
Located in Clerkenwell, Islington, Farringdon station was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, when it was opened in 1863. At the present time, it is not a station of great importance,... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Fourteenth) Kings Cross St Pancras - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Fourteenth) Kings Cross St Pancras
Kings Cross St. Pancras We have come to what is unquestionably the zenith of the circle line, and what might be considered the epicentre of the tube: no station has... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the thirteenth) Euston Square - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the thirteenth) Euston Square
We continue yet further along the original part of the Underground, and arrive at Euston Square. And fairly unremarkable station, built in 1863 as “Gower Street”, and then changed in 1909... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Twelfth) Great Portland Street - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Twelfth) Great Portland Street
Beginning life as “Portland Road” in 1863, part of that first stretch of tube, the current station’s structure was built as a traffic island in 1930 and is registered as... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl, Part the eleventh: Baker Street - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl, Part the eleventh: Baker Street
There is much at Baker Street which is interesting to the discerning traveller, some of which we must rush over, other parts of which we shall linger on, partly because... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the tenth) Edgware Road - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the tenth) Edgware Road
Lots of history at the Edgware Road: it is one of the oldest tube stations, having been opened in 1863. There is a second station, which is a few minutes walk... Read more...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Ninth) Paddington - Watts & Co.
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Ninth) Paddington
We move along from Bayswater now, up to Paddington. The Circle line section is in very similar architecture to what we have seen before, with very clean, simple arches extending the length... Read more...