Seven months into living in London and I already barely hear the "Mind the Gap" announcements and am basically immune to the horrible squeal between Paddington and Edgware Road stations.
But never mind: the tube isn't so bad, otherwise. And check out what we chanced upon!
(Ok, so this was actually two months ago, but I only remembered my plan to post this after I lost my good ol' Telus BlackBerry and discovered that these photos had somehow made it into my iPhoto anyway.)
The official Transport for London Lost Property Office!
That wasn't the cool part, though. In the windows were shelves of stuff that had been found, labelled with the year they were found and which station / bus. It was a true mishmash of stuff from different decades...
Check out the mobile phone from 1993. I'm pretty sure my dad had a similar one—perhaps an even bigger one! Apparently, someone also lost an IRON on the tube, back in 1934.
A top hat found at Euston station in 1951!
Here: a telephone lost at Camden station in 1936, and an amazing vintage Mamiya camera lost in Brixton in 1979. Immediately after seeing the camera, I noticed the "things in this window are not for sale" sign. Damn.
I have yet to lose anything on the tube in London (Elliot did lose a pair of gloves I gave him for Christmas a few years ago, though)—and I doubt much actually gets turned in these days... but what an interesting place nonetheless!
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