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Brothel creeper. A pair of "double sole" creeper shoes. Brothel creepers, sometimes shortened to creepers, are a style of shoe that has thick crepe soles, often in combination with suede uppers. This style of footwear became fashionable in the years following World War II, seeing resurgences of popularity at various times since then.
Secrets of the London Underground is a British factual documentary series presented by railway historian Tim Dunn and London Transport Museum's Engagement Manager Siddy Holloway, co-developer of 'Hidden London', the museum's programme of tours that gives visitors access to disused and historical parts of the network.
Reference is a made to a fictional deep-level air-raid shelter at Holland Park tube station in Ben Aaronovitch ’s novel Whispers Under Ground, third in the Rivers of London series. In the penultimate mission of the video game Watch Dogs: Legion, the Stockwell deep-level shelter is featured as the hideout of the main antagonist, Zero Day.
Box office. £ 1.7 million. Creep is a 2004 horror film written and directed by Christopher Smith. The film follows a woman locked in the London Underground overnight. She later finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below. The film was first shown at the Frankfurt Fantasy Film festival in Germany on 10 ...
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour. Three terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground ...
v. t. e. The history of the London Underground began in the 19th century with the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, worked with the District Railway to complete London's Circle line in 1884.
The UK's underground movement was focused on the Ladbroke Grove / Notting Hill area of London, which Mick Farren said "was an enclave of freaks, immigrants and bohemians long before the hippies got there". It had been depicted in Colin MacInnes ' novel Absolute Beginners, about street culture at the time of the Notting Hill Riots in the 1950s.
e. The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. [ 5] The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, opening on 10 January 1863 as the ...