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Post by c5 on Jan 24, 2007 18:25:13 GMT
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Post by Ben on Jan 24, 2007 18:34:52 GMT
Are the stations supposed to be near the schools? If so then the whole map is rather innaccurate  A pity |
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Post by c5 on Jan 24, 2007 18:37:30 GMT
Are the stations supposed to be near the schools? If so then the whole map is rather innaccurate A pity No, mine was sarf of the river and a few miles from the nearest tube station. It is not geograpically correct, other wise what about the schools in poor old Kingston, Sutton, Croydon, Bromey, Bexley etc etc |
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Post by Ben on Jan 24, 2007 18:39:44 GMT
And why has Sir Alan Sugar got his own station!?!!  |
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Post by Oracle on Jan 24, 2007 18:39:59 GMT
The Green School is nowhere near say Osterley, at Busch Corner, and yet Isleworth & Syon, ex ISLEWORTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, mu old alma mater, is not that far from Osterley.
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Post by Chris W on Jan 24, 2007 18:45:53 GMT
That is SO NOT accurate. An example - the Sanders Draper School, so-called/named after a WW2 American fighter pilot who steered his stricken aircraft away from crashing into a school in Hornchurch is located at Hainault according to the map  Also my old school, Chigwell (on the High Road), is called "Emerson Park School"... errrmmm how can I put this - thats about 12 miles out - the nearest tube station is again Hornchurch (just not as close as Sanders Draper School). "All Saints Catholic School & Technology College" definitely doesn't exist (or at least I never heard of it), and whose ever heard of an educational establishment called "Ross Kemp" in Dagenham  Methinks this is a wind up |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2007 18:46:57 GMT
Mine was a lot of miles from a tube station...............................
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Post by c5 on Jan 24, 2007 18:46:59 GMT
And why has Sir Alan Sugar got his own station!?!! It's one of them City Acadamies. I wen to one of Maggie T's versions that had a lot of work paid for my a wealthy carpet shop owner. It was good for the first 2 years then the Principal left and was replaced by an upper class woman from an all girls school in Windsor and it went downhill from there There are now about 6 other Acadamies bearing the same name. Never mind, I didn't do too bad in the end! |
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Post by Ben on Jan 24, 2007 18:58:01 GMT
Greenford High has had to make do with a zone one location when its further out than Ealing Broadway. As for my school, Douay, its portrayed as being the 'end of the line' or 'the last stop'  Actually looking at the northwest, it all appears to be very scrambled |
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Post by version3point1 on Jan 24, 2007 19:15:55 GMT
I found mine! Shame how a 'rival' girls school got the station closest to us.  |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 24, 2007 19:27:35 GMT
Well my school is not there, its closed down! ;D I am trying to work out the logic here of this ere map, principally, schools are not near their respective stations, eg Camden girls school is given Chalk Farm!! Its nowhere near it! |
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Post by amershamsi on Jan 24, 2007 20:42:32 GMT
Camden girls school is given Chalk Farm!! sounds to be one of the closest! My old one wouldn't be on there, as 1)it's not in the Magic Kendom (though lots of students from inside Greater London go there) and 2)it selects by ability (though they do seem to have some that select by wealth, which is even less socialist, but aren't on the "we need to abolish" list that Labour has). The day after I got my GCSE results (2002), the Standard had us top on the list of London schools by GCSE pass rate, so blatently it's a successful (that what the 'map' was showing, hence the omissions, that and Londoners who went to state school and are 'famous') London school. And it would have made a much better Amersham, than whoever it is there, seeing as it's just up the road from the station. Actually, does anyone know who the people who replace Amersham and Chesham are? Googling leaves a blank, just get links to the map. Bet there's a few others like that! |
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Post by Chris M on Jan 24, 2007 20:55:05 GMT
Apparently some of the names are pupils who have done very well in their [presumably very recent] GCSE exams...
My school is about 100 miles too far west to be on there.
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Post by Colin on Jan 25, 2007 1:16:24 GMT
Well it is connected to the genuine Department For Education and Skills website - and THIS PAGE explains it all; especially this bit: |
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Post by suncloud on Jan 26, 2007 0:08:43 GMT
Found mine, it was at least the right side of London...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2007 6:22:20 GMT
Well it is connected to the genuine Department For Education and Skills website - and THIS PAGE explains it all; especially this bit: Presumably this explains why Archway is labelled "Harry Beck". He lived in Highgate and would have caught the tube from there to 55 Broadway. |
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Post by Chris M on Jan 26, 2007 9:24:12 GMT
Except I thought Tufnell Park was his local station? Isn't that where his plaque is?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2007 15:52:45 GMT
I am on the west end of the central line. However my local station (sudbury hill) Has a school that i have never ever heard of!  |
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Post by towerman on Jan 26, 2007 19:49:06 GMT
They couldn't carry on when I left school,they closed it!!!
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Post by Colin on Jan 27, 2007 2:48:03 GMT
I have a feeling this map was never intended to be accurate, but just a way of recognising some successful schools and people in a unique way |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2007 4:43:07 GMT
Except I thought Tufnell Park was his local station? Isn't that where his plaque is? I'm not sure. I just have a recollection of a book (possibly Tube maps after Beck) which suggested that, as he lived in Highgate, he might have got the idea for the tube map from the LNER's very abstract diagrams of its suburban network displayed in its carriages, which he would have seen travelling by LNER from Highgate to the City via Finsbury Park. |
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Post by Chris M on Jan 27, 2007 11:26:32 GMT
From Wikipedia:
If that is correct, then it seems we're both wrong!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2007 12:04:27 GMT
East Finchley has been replaced by Christs College. I would hazard a guess and say that Christs College is closer to Finchley central!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2007 13:42:02 GMT
no villiers high school, that was my secondary school in southall. yep more often than not i'd be held as a political prisoner for 30 minutes to an hour after school!
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Post by Ben on Jan 27, 2007 14:58:32 GMT
Maybe Colins right. Its quite ammusing to see school names as stations, ever so roughly near where they should technically be. The map compared to a standard one has a number of little quirks to fit 'station' names, for example the Tower area.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2007 12:18:49 GMT
From Wikipedia: If that is correct, then it seems we're both wrong! Interesting, given that Finchley Central was not a tube station when Beck first started producing his maps.... |
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Post by stanmorek on Jan 28, 2007 12:37:32 GMT
My school Claremont High is down as Kenton whereas its actually much closer to Kingsbury. I grew up in Kenton where St Gregory RC ought to be. For the record, ex-England footballer Stuart Pearce went to me school as did the child actor who played Danny from Grange Hill. Mr Motivator's children were also pupils. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2007 23:22:38 GMT
Well, my secondary school was a long long way from a tube station... was even further out that the z6 border!
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Post by james3797 on Jan 29, 2007 3:52:21 GMT
FOA Chris W
"All Saints Catholic School & Technology College" definitely doesn't exist (or at least I never heard of it)"
Hi ya im a Dagenham lad and it does exist Well from 2005!!! it was All Saints and it was Next door to Robert Clack, BUT The Technology Departments merged! Thus All Saints Catholic School & Technology College
Oh By The Way Eastbrook Comp(my Old School!!!!!) is Nearer! From the station!!!!
James!
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Post by sm on Jan 30, 2007 14:28:11 GMT
my station is Keira Knightly... nice
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