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  Wills Week writes: Did you know that there are no less that forty-six abandoned tube stations on the London Underground network. The easiest to spot is on the Central Line on the left hand side (going East and up-hill) about 200 yards after Holborn station. Within a few seconds of leaving Holborn, you’ll race through ‘British Museum’. If you cup your hands (I’ve done it) you’ll just see the old station platform and even a WW2 air-raid shelter poster. It’s awesome, although not quite as spectacular as the rumour that’s been circulating for years – that it’s been preserved since the day it closed before the war, complete with all the original advertising posters etc. If only someone had the foresight to have pickled that! Further information on Wills week and  London's Abandoned Tube Stations

This is an interesting life - I wonder why it is not better known. Seems like a nice bloke! Adam Worth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good news, if this happens, but it really should be mandatory for the purchaser to keep it open Fire Brigade Museum could stay in Southwark Bridge Road [20 April 2014]

Thanks, Karin for pointing this one out! - It contains a video of Vonnegut teaching. To Tell Your Story, Take a Page from Kurt Vonnegut​ - Andrea Ovans - Harvard Business Review

Very good advice from a master story-teller. Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story | Brain Pickings

Society of Antuquities reports in Salon:   Doubts cast on Offa’s Dyke, Richard III and the Holy Grail Offa’s Dyke may not have been built by the eighth-century ruler of Mercia after all, according to our Fellow Paul Belford, Director of the Clwyd—Powys Archaeological Trust, who announced last week the ‘tremendously exciting discovery’ that parts were constructed between AD 430 and 652 (Offa ruled from AD 757 to 796). The Clwyd—Powys Archaeological Trust carried out excavations on a stretch of the dyke along the Shropshire border near the town of Chirk. The dated material came from a layer of re-deposited turf underneath the bank, laid down as part of the construction process. Before we rush to rename the dyke, Paul Belford made it clear that, even if parts of the dyke system were in place before Offa’s time, ‘it is likely that he would have consolidated the existing network into what we now call Offa’s Dyke’. Paul added: ‘It is now clear that it was not the wor...