"Bruce" wrote in message

"Recliner" wrote:
In case you missed the announcements, there are currently two small
exhibitions in London that may be of interest:

1. The V&A, in conjunction with RIBA, has "Underground Journeys:
Charles Holden's Designs for London Transport". It features
original sketches, drawings and models from about 80 years ago from
Charles Holden's architectural firm. You can see how the station
design style changed from the Northern Line to the Piccadilly Line
extension. It includes quite a few proposals that never happened, as
well as those, like Sudbury Town, that did.

Be warned that it's on the fourth floor (Room 128a), and appears not
to be accessible without lots of stairs.


2. There's a possibly more topical Crossrail exhibition at the NLA
galleries at The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT.
There's a spectacular, detailed architectural model of central London
showing the Crossrail and other rail routes, as well as an
information panel on each of the planned underground stations. There
also a not very informative station model. The model includes both
current (in grey) and planned (in white) buildings, and is well
worth a look. Here's a few of the pics I took today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...2156305/detail

No stairs are involved!



Thanks for the heads up!

I'll try to visit both, but I will probably balk at four flights of
stairs. Is it not possible to take a lift for part of the way, even
if it is in another part of the building?

Yes, that's what I did, then found that I still had to go up and down
several flights of stairs to get to the Architecture gallery, which is
quite small and tucked away. It looked like the one lift that might have
served it (in the adjacent glass gallery) was out of order. The V&A
isn't a good place to visit if you have a problem with stairs!

"Recliner" wrote:
"Bruce" wrote in message

"Recliner" wrote:
In case you missed the announcements, there are currently two small
exhibitions in London that may be of interest:

1. The V&A, in conjunction with RIBA, has "Underground Journeys:
Charles Holden's Designs for London Transport". It features
original sketches, drawings and models from about 80 years ago from
Charles Holden's architectural firm. You can see how the station
design style changed from the Northern Line to the Piccadilly Line
extension. It includes quite a few proposals that never happened, as
well as those, like Sudbury Town, that did.

Be warned that it's on the fourth floor (Room 128a), and appears not
to be accessible without lots of stairs.


2. There's a possibly more topical Crossrail exhibition at the NLA
galleries at The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT.
There's a spectacular, detailed architectural model of central London
showing the Crossrail and other rail routes, as well as an
information panel on each of the planned underground stations. There
also a not very informative station model. The model includes both
current (in grey) and planned (in white) buildings, and is well
worth a look. Here's a few of the pics I took today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...2156305/detail

No stairs are involved!



Thanks for the heads up!

I'll try to visit both, but I will probably balk at four flights of
stairs. Is it not possible to take a lift for part of the way, even
if it is in another part of the building?

Yes, that's what I did, then found that I still had to go up and down
several flights of stairs to get to the Architecture gallery, which is
quite small and tucked away. It looked like the one lift that might have
served it (in the adjacent glass gallery) was out of order.


Thanks.


The V&A
isn't a good place to visit if you have a problem with stairs!


I think I'll just turn up in a wheelchair and ask if a member of staff
can take me to see the exhibition. ;-)