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	Aldwych tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aldwych tube station should not be confused with the Aldwych tramway station, which was a stop on the Kingsway tramway subway.
		Aldwych tube station is a disused station on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground and now forms part of King's College London.
		A restoration of the building's façade has revealed the original name of the station, long concealed by its subsequent alteration to "Aldwych".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldwych_tube_station (689 words)

	Aldwych - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the site of The London School of Economics, Bush House, the Aldwych and Duchess theatres, the Waldorf Hotel, the Indian high commision and nearby in the Strand is the now-disused Aldwych tube station.
		The Aldwych underground station appears in a level of Tomb Raider 3
		Aldwych is a place and road in the City of Westminster in London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldwych (204 words)

	Hidden City: Aldwych Tube Station
		Since even before it finally closed in 1994 "Aldwych" was for many years only open for weekday rush-hour services, it was often used by film-makers needing an authentic Underground station location, including Battle of Britain (1966), Death-Line (1972), Superman IV (1986), The Krays (1989), and Patriot Games (1992).
		The video for The Prodigy's Firestarter track was shot in the disused running tunnels between the station and "Holborn." The L-shaped building is situated at the junction of The Strand and Surrey Street, with the large portion in the latter.
		The terminus of a short and little-used Piccadilly line link to "Holborn", formed when two planned pre-LU lines were merged prior to the construction.
	www.cwgcuser.org.uk /personal/hiddenc/ats.htm (272 words)

	Virgin Radio - The Guide - Rock Pilgrimages - Rock Pilgrimages
		A disused tube station, Aldwych is regularly used for filming - and, in particular, has been used in two pop videos - The Prodigy's 'Firestarter', and Everlast's 'Black Jesus'.
		Since this is a disused station, you may wish to take a look around it.
		If you're looking for it now, the canopy has gone, and it says "Strand Station", which was the original name.
	virginradio.co.uk /theguide/rock_pilgrimages/place/aldwych_tube_station (239 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sleep like the Royals
		A daring experiment — One Aldwych, at the junction of Aldwych and the Strand where the West End meets The City, may be a monument to the Edwardian age outside but, within, it is a modernist's take on the 21st century.
		One Aldwych serves best those who like their hotels and staffs stripped of extravagance but not of style.
		The gym is superb, with each exercise station connected to a TV and fitted with headphones.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/cityguides/london/wheretostay.htm (1393 words)

	Fascinating facts you never knew about the London Underground
		The only tube station which shares the name of a well known pop group is All Saints (yeah I know it's on the Docklands Light Railway - but it's still on the tube map).
		Aldwych station (now closed) is featured on level 12 in the Tomb Raider game with Lara Croft killing rats.
		There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House and South Ealing.
	solo2.abac.com /themole/tubefacts.html (1231 words)

	Tube Spotting - Celebrities on the London Underground
		It features the tube in a big way, with weird characters who live in a strange underground world and some of them are even named after tube stations.
		The station closed in 1994 and the Aldwych is now a happening venue for all sorts of showbiz parties, raves like underLondonground and video shoots.
		For he now knows that underneath the London streets, deep in the abandoned stations that dot the tubes and in the most obscure sewer tunnels lies an underground culture that insists on anonymity from the surface world.
	solo2.abac.com /themole/tubecelebs.html (9782 words)

	Guardian Preview
		The Seed promoters are obviously well connected, for they've been allowed access to the disused Aldwych tube station for parties far more than any of their peers.
		Joining the Judge deckside will be fellow station regulars Fergie and Eddie Halliwell, while Lisa Lashes adds a tasty dash of glamour to the recipe and Germany's Scot Project and Robbie Butler provide the international and local flavours.
		And it's an advantage worth pressing home, as the venue is as exciting and mysterious as it sounds, and gives an extra frisson to a series of parties that are well organised and musically savvy enough anyway.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5060552-113636,00.html (674 words)

	Crystal Palace luxury display cases. Curio Cabinets for Swarovski Crystal in 24K goldplated
		Aldwych tramway station (not to be confused with Aldwych tube station) was a tram stop underneath Kingsway (a road in central London), part of the Kingsway tramway subway route.
		The Strand Underpass, opened in 1964, rises at its north end through the former location of the Aldwych tramway station but no signs of the former station remain visible on the surface or from the road tunnel.
		Services from Angel Islington to Aldwych commenced on 24 February 1906 and through services on 10 April 1908 from Highbury station to Tower Bridge and from Highbury station to Kennington Gate.
	www.display-cabinets.uk.com /news11/fleming.html (257 words)

	Guardian The rhino now standing on platform two
		If you're unlucky enough to be familiar with London's erratic Underground system, and view crossing the capital by Tube as an expedition on a par with tackling Everest, spare a thought for the few hundred brave souls who will be descending into the long-closed Aldwych station later this week.
		The Vertical Line is at the Aldwych Tube station, London WC2, from Thursday to Sunday.
		It also refers to the 15-metre drop down the shaft of the disused Aldwych station and McBurney's discovery, on his father's archaeological digs, that time can be perceived not just horizontally but also vertically.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3816459-110428,00.html (1198 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: London: Transport: Underground
		Tube Challenge - Details the rules of the tube challenge, which involves visiting all of the stations on the London Underground network in the quickest possible time.
		Stations which have since closed or have been renamed can be found on some.
		Tube Lines - Homepage of the company which provides maintenance services for trains and infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/London/Transport/Underground (1321 words)

	Closed London Underground stations - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The James Bond movie Die Another Day featured a disused tube station called Vauxhall Cross; the station is supposed to be on a disused branch of the Piccadilly Line (similar to Aldwych) that runs south of the river to Vauxhall Cross, in the vicinity of the MI6 building.
		BBC soap opera EastEnders created Walford East tube station [1], which replaces Bromley-by-Bow tube station on the EastEnders tube map, to allow the locals to escape "up West" for a night out.
		South Kentish Town tube station (Northern Line between Camden Town and Kentish Town)
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/List_of_closed_London_Underground_stations (899 words)

	Index of Pictures
		Aldwych tube station (closed since 1994)- tunnelvision art installation
	www.picdiary.com /london/tube (10 words)

	Alight here - Aldwych Tube Station
		The tube station was shut down in three different periods, 1915, 1960 and 1994, so that when you walk through the building the experience is of encountering different periods of history.
		For years I've been walking past Aldwych tube and have always been fascinated by it; this unused empty building in the middle of the busy city street.
		There are so many more variables when you are curating a show in a place like this, compared to organising a show in a pristine gallery space.
	www.mywestend.co.uk /westend/arts-tubeint.htm (459 words)

	Observer Down the Tubes
		Staging this underground meeting in the disused Aldwych Tube station confers some charm.
		Swathed in oracular pronouncements, smirking with the sexiness of an ill-defined criminality, unflaggingly wordy and relentlessly vague, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields must be one of the worst plays ever to be called a masterpiece.
		The audience moves from scene to scene: past smelly telephone kiosks, through the lift with its slatted wooden floor, under the old sign to the Temple exit.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4267029-102280,00.html (668 words)

	BBC - collective - stella screen '02
		Aldwych Tube Station, London, 03 and 04 October
		This year’s tour includes An American Werewolf In London, screened in a disused Tube station, while the old-school ghost story The Others will be screened in the forbidding graveyard of Todmorden Church.
		In what must have been a ragingly patriotic evening, Braveheart was shown at Stirling castle, replete with bagpipes and re-enacted battle scenes on the castle ramparts.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A839270 (377 words)

	Patriot Games
		The filmmakers also utilized Aldwych tube station for the movie's Underground scenes.
		The station, which was closed down in 1994, is often used for platform and station shots in films.
		The bookshop from which an IRA operative emerges was located in Burlington Arcade, off Piccadilly.
	www.compleatseanbean.com /patriot.html (929 words)

	p_eastenderswestenders.html
		People are always on the move in a Tube station and so toilets were not provided.
		At the start of the war, Herbert Morrison, the Minister for Home Security, was against using the Tube stations as public shelters.
		On September 21st 1940, the Aldwych branch of the Piccadilly line was closed from, the tracks were covered in concrete and sleeping places and toilets provided for the shelterers.
	www.holnet.org.uk /learningzone/londonatwar/shelter/p_eastenderswestenders.html (658 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Ultimate Guide to the London Underground - mark II
		They are: Aldwych (closed 1994), Blake Hall (1983), British Museum (1933), Brompton Road (1934), City Road (1922), Down Street (1932), Lords (1939), Marlborough Road (1939), Ongar and North Weald (1994)South Acton (1959), South Kentish Town (1924), St Mary's (1938), Uxbridge Road (1947), White City (1959) and York Road (1932).
		This station is characterised by an escalator of average length on which there will always be a gale force wind blowing no matter how calm the weather is elsewhere in the vicinity.
		The larger Chorleywood station is used to turn the trains, as is the Chalfont connection, while the regular shuttle train waits in a single siding at Chesham.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A408890 (7524 words)

	LONDON TRANSPORT
		During the conversion Aldwych station was destroyed but Holborn tram station remains intact in an unused portion of the tunnel.
		This tram underpass originally connected a subterranean station at Holborn, and ran the length of Kingsway via a station at Aldwych before rising to the surface under Waterloo Bridge.
		Both stations were rebuilt at the same time and finished in marble and stone with electric lighting.
	www.derelictlondon.com /id7.htm (1631 words)

	flavourpill LONDON
		It's also a rare chance to party in one of London's more unusual venues; since being decommissioned ten years ago, Aldwych tube station has been a spooky location for the likes of Superman IV, ITV's The Bill and BBC reality drama Spy.
		In a renovated power station amid the Shoreditch Triangle's eclecticism there exists a circus school, which by night becomes a performance space where gravity cheaters deliver dropped-jaw, edge-of-seat excitement to a diverse, cocktail-sipping crowd.
		Elsewhere, dance music reconnects with its underground roots — quite literally — in a disused tube station, and the city's young film talent gets exposed.
	london.flavourpill.net /mailer/issue55 (2879 words)

	tube station - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include tube station: acton town tube station, aldgate east tube station, aldgate tube station, aldwych tube station, amersham tube station, more...
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "tube station" is defined.
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word tube station:
	www.onelook.com /?w=tube+station (94 words)

	What's happening in British Theatre - Production News for 2nd September, 2001
		Interestingly, the tube station occupies the same site as the old Royal Strand Theatre, which was demolished in 1905.
		The station has been closed since 1994 and has been used for filming in the past, but this is the first time a live thatre performance has been given.
		It will be a promenade production, startin g at the Strand entrance and finishing by the Surrey Street entrance.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/library/soft/blwh-090201.htm (432 words)

	Productions - Complicite
		A site-specific production for the disused Aldwych tube station, London in February 1999.
		'An underground folly built at the end of the last century, the Strand Station's two platforms simultaneously serviced an under-subscribed shuttle between Holborn and the Aldwych.
		Part theatrical event, part archaeological dig, The Vertical Line was an oratorio of faces, voices, darkness and light; a one-off excavation for small groups down 122 spiral steps into the bowels of the disused Strand tube station, where a sequence of audio-visual installations culminated in a live performance.
	www.complicite.org /productions/detail.html?id=6 (273 words)

	Socially Challenged
		With live performances at the underlondonground show at aldwych tube station and the colony party skoptic tunes will be available very soon on socially challanged with the release of a mini-album on CD.
		Cold fusion mafia have had a number of releases in the last few years.
		Skoptic appeared most recently on the abstract knights show on groovetech.
	www.btinternet.com /~skoptic/sociallychallenged/about.html (139 words)

	V&A - Image
		Many of the smaller and more portable items were taken to the bomb-proof stores in the basement of the Museum, to Montacute House, or to the Aldwych Tube station which it shared with the British Museum.
		A photographer came round to the Museum to mark the event, keen he said to prove that the Museum was preparing for war and looking after its treasures hence we have the photos of the sandbagging taking place.
		As can be seen in this picture a team of men were using sandbags to protect objects against enemy bombs.
	www.vam.ac.uk /images/image/13163-popup.html (185 words)

	Sounds Underground: news
		We discovered in December that for reasons connected with Health and Safety, we would be unable to hold concerts in the Aldwych (disused) Tube station.
		London Underground have banned the use of the station until further notice.
		So Sounds Underground is now above ground, and on the look out for exciting places to hold concerts in in the future.
	www.soundsunderground.org /news.html (117 words)

	offtowork - Case Study
		This event took place on 10th February 2004 at The Old Aldwych Tube Station on the Strand.
		The client was expecting up to 350 guests and as well as drink and light food service they also needed a cloakroom to be set-up and run.
		In February this year a large corporate client called us regarding an important launch event they were planning.
	www.offtowork.co.uk /casestudy.asp (746 words)

	news
		Playing in Aldwych tube station friday the 29th november.
		Cursor Miner on XFm - John Kennedy will be playing tracks recorded at the barfly xposure night.
	www.cursorminer.com /cmnews.htm (392 words)

	Print Article: Tsubi goes underground
		Local label Tsubi made its international debut on Saturday at London Fashion Week, showing at the disused Aldwych Tube station.
		The off-schedule exhibition featured a series of artistic installations (pictured right) - similar in concept to the kooky label's Australian Fashion Week show in May - such as models standing in a room surrounded by hanging origami-style paper cranes and a girl sitting on a toilet surrounded by piles of fashion-labelled toilet paper.
		Key looks included a denim boiler suit gathered at the knees much like knickerbockers, a denim dress with a red zip front reminiscent of a '40s nurse's uniform and a St Tropez-inspired Liberty print bustier with matching low-waist wide-leg trousers.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/09/16/1032054759372.html (743 words)

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