 diamond geezer
Sunday, December 29, 2024
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
 Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to its radio masts [photos]
Crewe: The delights of the railway town were worth half a day... [photos]
Stafford: ...whereas this historic market town could have sustained me for longer [photos]
Littlehampton to Shoreham: A glorious shingly walk along the urban shores of the Brighton and Hove Built-up Area
Marston Vale line: Earlier this year you could ride this minor railway through Bedfordshire for just £1 so I did [photos]
Basingstoke: Sightseeing in the Hampshire new town (and a NT mansion at The Vyne) [photos]
Hunstanton: The summer seaside in west Norfolk, Sandringham-ish
Ashdown Forest: A walk to the original Poohsticks Bridge (and on to Uckfield)
Hayling Island: England's 7th largest offshore island (plus a bit of Havant) [photos]
Redditch: Home to Paolozzi mosaics and the National Needle Museum [photos]
...and also: Langley Vale Wood, Sharpenhoe Clappers, Ruby Tuesday Drive, Croxley on TV, East Anglian pylons, Birmingham, postcards from Norwich
Major series
Monopoly: Go, Old Kent Road [the rest of the Monopoly board] Mayfair
One Stop Beyond: list, Denham, Iver, Hinchley Wood, Theobalds Grove, Kempton Park, Moor Park, Dunton Green, Carpenders Park
A Nice Walk: London Commonwealth Walkway, very close Starbucks, Twickenham Riverside, Suburban Circuit, Brockley Three Peaks, Heathrow T2 to T3, Rail & Heritage Loop, Campden Hill, Ted Lasso, Beddington Farmlands
Local
E3: nearest supermarkets, local news, Bow roundabout roadworks, headbutter
E15/E20: QEOP+10, Carpenters Road reopens, Gibbins Road entrance, City Mill walkway, Everyman cinema
Tower Hamlets: Eden Dock
Wider London
London: non-London universities, former airfields, toilet symbols, prisons, power stations, Afghanistan, buildings from 20 centuries, wind turbines, churches on housing estates, Gail's, Open House, farewell Evening Standard, housing solutions
London superlatives: largest common, least extreme points, cheapest visitor attractions, longest walks under things, longest and shortest High Streets, extreme roundabouts, shortests
Museums/art: art, 200 rooms of art, The Secret Life of the Home, City Wall at Vine Street, Rooms Through Time, Redbridge Museum, more art, National Gallery security measures
Central: The Charterhouse, City Bridges poet in residence, 10 centuries in 1 day, London Heritage Quarter, BT Tower
East: exiting Noak Hill, the news from Barking and Dagenham, Hog Hill, random Remembrance, five small B&D parks
Northwest: Battle of Barnet, Energen Close, Northwood's boundary, Frith Manor, Rayners Lane, Wood End
West: Hounslow High Street, Ealing's extremities
Southwest: Random Borough - Merton revisited, Cheam Charter Fair, Summerstown, Wimbledon Park, Old Malden, Mansfield Park
South: 24 pubs on the A24, exclaves of Sutton, retracing Terry and June, The Wrythe, three constituencies, Pig Farm Alley, Kingsdown Avenue air crash
Southeast: 24 things in SE24, Old Bexley and Sidcup, High Street Downe, Poverest, random Bexley footpath, Canada Water boardwalk, Woolwich McDonald's
Rivers: River Wogebourne, Thames Path, Burnt Oak Brook, Thames draw-off
Walks: Green Chain 12, The Green Link Walk, World Cup of London Walks, London's waymarked walks
Banksy: tree, animals, more animals
Transport
 TfL FOI requests: April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Anorak corner: tube, bus, rail
Tube: Tube 160 Treasure Hunt, most and least popular journeys, the Smudge of Remembrance, unrepeated zone 1 challenge
Tube lines: Metropolitan line extension, Jubilee line extension 25, Bakerloo 40
Tube stations: announcements, Canary Wharf 25, Paddington - new entrance, Southwark 25, Westminster 25
Tube map: circular tube map, splitting lines, splitting Hackney, National Rail symbol, exhibition, Taylor Swift, toilets map, a history, the 2016 tube map, Crossrail map typo, December 2024 reprint
Tube fares: 2024 fares, Off Peak Fridays, Push Your Luck, 2025 fares
Overground: the new names, line name histories, water fountains, new vinyls, unlaunched, phased introduction, factfile, on the Liberty line, renaming history
DLR: Pudding Mill Lane
Crossrail: depth of stations
Rail: Transport freedom, Class 701, 70min Flex, Euston's departure board, Bourneview crossing
Bus: the bus rescheduler, the most terminal terminus, least used bus stop, busiest bus stop, Routemaster 70, London's sightseeing buses, Lower Lea Valley Bus Review, Sullivan withdraws, Cromwell Road bus station
Superloop: SL5, SL3, SL2, Bakerloop, Superloop 2
Bus routes: 24, 497, 455, S2, 439, 59, 346, 146, 157, 167, 177, 187, 197, 310, 549, W14, free buses, 358, K4
River: Waverley
Dangleway: cutback in hours
Bikes: hire bikes
Streets: B2024, polygonal streets, Mayday Road, High Streets, Advent Way, Eversleigh Road
Roads: shop signs, numberplate pairs, longest countdowns, unnecessary buttons, numberplate games
Quizzes: anniversaries, St Patrick's Day, mystery tour, freshwater fish, Birmingham stations
Time and space: "in the shadow of", temperature records, Leap Day, gaps between Easters, rapid bank holidays, mid-summer, 1999 eclipse
Maps & geography: unvisited counties, consecutive postcodes, the centre of London, on three OS maps, local council reorganisation
Mayoral election: Green policies, the candidates, Sadiq's manifesto, results
General election: First steps for change, Stratford and Bow, leaflets, results, all downhill from here
The blog: 6th best day, The Count, non-chronological, dg Q&A
Unblogged: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, April 1994, September 1994, December 1994
And... the end of the world, My Saturday, 9 birthdays, greens, London Airports Race, the Wombles, sex, football, wrong, Breaking News alerts, the Royal Mail experiment, single life, food consumption
» My ten favourite photos of the year
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