London transport in miniature

I spent a fantastic afternoon last month, running around the London Transport Museum's Acton Depot (basically, the storage centre where they put everything they can't fit into the main museum), with only two other people for company, Paul and Billy. We were priveleged enough to have the place entirely to ourselves (which was very exciting for Paul and myself as we'd never been before), under the auspices of coming up with clues for the scavenger hunt that eventually took place on March 8th. I meant to blog about it before the event actually happened, but I was unwell and disorganised, and I am only just now getting around to it, over a week too late.

It was a great day out, I think. The place was heaving and although the scavengers whinged about how difficult they thought the clues were, the teams all managed to get most of the clues. You can see all of their photos in the Flickr group here. I think there's still a prize awaiting the group's most popular picture (based on page views/comments/favourites) so go help pick a winner! Obviously all of my photos are exempt, being a hunt organiser, but there are still some worthy entrants in there.

Here are some of my favourites from my own personal photos; the rest can be seen here.

Blackfriars Pier

Canada Water Station

Queen Victoria Street

Theobald's Road

Woolwich Road

Paul's photos are here and Billy's photos are here. He's also posted all the questions and answers on his blog. The Mole did a nice write-up of the day if you want to know what it felt like being one of the scavengers. Looks like fun!

But not half as much fun as having the whole place all to yourself.