Canal Street

fact:

Better known as Anal Street from continual vandalizing since establishment in 1904.

Holland Park

Fact:

Many a protitute has been known to migrate into this park.

New Cross/New Cross Gate

Fact:

These two stations are actually only one place. New Cross Gate was added on the maps to (in a London Underground spokesman's words) "confuse bloody students".

Cockfosters

Fact:

Place of thriving homosexual activity.

"when walking in to find one of your friends has just screwed three males consecutively in one night"


"JESUS CHRIST YOU REALLY ARE A COCKFOSTER AREN'T YOU"

Golders Green

Fact:

Amy Winehouse didn't have her bat mitzvah here.

Putney Bridge

Fact:

Due to a clerical error Putney Bridge wasn't built over the Thames as planned but was needlessly built two miles north of the river.

another interesting fact about swiss cottage is that it has the highest proportion of rapes in all of london.

Chancery Lane

Fact:

Chancery Lane is a corruption of its original name 'Chance Your Eye Lane' which referred to the popular London game of taking turns to throw a knife at each others eyes from a distance of three meters.

Is that actually true? I really wouldn't have thought that about Swiss Cottage.

well now you've got me wondering whether it was st john's wood, but either way it's same. apparently it's because a lot of women go jogging around there assuming because it's a quiet & wealthy residential area that it's safer than going jogging in hackney wick, or some such place.

Ah, good point that's probably why. And yeah St John's Wood and Swiss Cottage are the same. I think St John's Wood's name gives it away ie John ain't no saint.

Mile End.

Fact:

London's first Hell's Angel chapter was founded here, called "Satan's Raleigh Choppers".

maybe it's his ghost that's doing all the raping, because he's stuck for eternity with a hard on

Leicester Square

Fact:

Commonly referred to as "Lie-chester Square" by Americans.

Chalk Farm

Fact: so called because primary school teachers used to breed their blackboard writing implements here during the war.

Ha! I've just noticed something. Goldhawk Road is right by Ravenscourt Park. They sure do like their bird referrences in those parts.

Victoria

Fact:

If you pay close attention to the architecture of the entrance to this station you will notice that it is subtley modelled on Queen Victoria's vagina.

Fuck, I've just also noticed that there are two stations called Shepherd's Bush.

Yeah, the victims have been giving the same description for the last fifty years: fat man in cassock. Crime Watch didn't get far.

South Kensington

Fact:

Despite having some of the highest property prices in the whole of London, no one actually lives in Kensington.