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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Probably a highlight as a Londoner getting invited to ‘The Keys’, the Yeoman Warders’ pub inside the Tower of London’s walls. It’s not open to the public and is strictly by invitation only. We were allowed to take pictures, but nothing can capture the special atmosphere. Plus £4 for a Guinness!

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 22/09/2026

At Whitechapel, up in the roof space; a small sign, nailed to one of the beams by a Master Bellfounder... 'Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it himself'. I've long forgotten the story, but it's still an object from the foundry that remains in my memory!

'Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it himself' reads a small sign in calligraphy script that is nailed to a wooden roof beam at Whitechapel Bell Foundry

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 22/09/2026

One of the beautiful parallels I drew from visits to both foundries is the essence of storytelling prompted by simple objects about the shop. At Taylor’s, Anthony was keen to tell us how the cigarette tins that housed the various foundry type stamps had him hunting for more when at car boot sales.

A collection of brass type stamps for bell making at Taylor’s Bell Foundry

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 22/09/2026

FWIW: My visit was not a result of a @tomscott.com video everyone has recently told me about (respectfully, I haven’t seen it!), but more a curiosity to see who is still making bells in this country after my visit to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry almost ten years ago (before they ceased operations) 🔔

Lettering stamps used for the making of Big Ben

The casting hall at Whitechapel Bell Foundry in January 2017

A small handbell at Whitechapel Bell Foundry that has been removed from its mould, as seen in January 2017.

Workshop and workbench for handbells at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, as seen in January 2017.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 22/09/2026

One of the 18th Century Rickmansworth church bells in-situ in the casting hall of Taylor’s. This will be broken down and the bell metal salvaged and used in the re-casting.

A very large 18th century church bell sits atop a stack of wooden pallets

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Visited the Taylor’s Bellfoundry in Loughborough over the weekend and met a Master Bellfounder. As you do. Most interesting to see typesetting in Tamil, as well as a set of bells being recast for a church in Rickmansworth.

Various sized moulds for church bells over a sand pit

The casting hall at the Taylor’s Bell Foundry in Loughborough, as seen from the viewing platform

Tamil lettering for the inscription on a bell to be cast by the bellfoundry.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 22/09/2026

We’ve all seen it, but always nice to dig this out once in a while…

Evening Standard article from Monday 10th October 1977, with the headline ‘DRIVERLESS TUBES BY 1990’.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Put a roll of Rollei RPX 400 through the Hasselblad that I couldn't be bothered to run to the lab. Mate had some chemicals, so I got to do home dev for the first time in ages (warmer weather; shorter dev times). Ilfosol 3, Ilford stop bath, and Rapid Fixer. #FilmPhotography

Black and white square film photograph of the stair case leading down to the platform at Ealing Common London Underground station. Square tiles line the walls and the floors, with summer light shining through the rectangular Art Deco windows, casting angular light on the floor.

Black and white square film photograph of the overhead lines and numbered gantries leading into London Paddington, as seen from Royal Oak London Underground Station. There are big black numbers on white square backgrounds, numbered left to right, 5 down to 1; underneath each number is a railway signal head.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Also shot some black and white out there on the Hasselblad. Had a great time in Prague this spring. Would love to go back again (well - back into Europe in general). #FilmPhotography

Black and white film photograph taken inside a large hall of a grand-looking Art Deco shopping mall with a stained glass facade in Central Prague. There is an old-fashioned ‘fotoautomat’ photo booth in the centre of the hall, where people are queuing up to use it.

Black and white film photograph showing text on a white roller blind in a shop window that says ‘You don’t have to buy to have a good time’. The reflection in the glass shows the architecture of a Prague building.

Black and white film photograph showing the rectangular mirrored windows of an Australian consulate building in Prague reflecting a church opposite. The effect of the reflection makes the church and a neighbouring building look distorted and pixelated.

Black and white film photograph the corridor inside an Art Deco shopping mall in Prague, which curved roof and glass block skylight.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 21/08/2026

Prague neons from earlier on this year on expired Fujicolor Industrial 100 pushed a stop and shot through the Ricoh GR1V. Great little camera for travelling and documenting bits and bobs. #FilmPhotography

Colour film photograph taken during evening twilight showing a neon sign that features 3D chopsticks and a neon ramen bowl as part of the sign. The sign is illuminated to show that the restaurant is open, with ‘OPEN’ set in rainbow colours.

Colour film photograph showing an illuminated neon sign in a window during evening twilight. The sign is white and red, with neon images of meat ribs and the letters saying ‘RIBS UNLIMITED’.

Colour film photograph showing a glass shop front photographed at night. The ice cream shop has two neon signs in the window that are illuminated; one ‘Gelato’ sign on the right, with a neon ice cream in light pink, and on the left; a text neon sign saying ‘Love at first bite’. The interior of the shop is painted pink and illuminated by the backlight of the neon signs.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/08/2026

It’s hard to keep going when it feels like you’re on shifting sands. It’s hard to stay creative too when you’re attempting to pour from an empty cup. But I’ve a few projects in the works to share at some point. For now, it’s about resting and recovering somehow. 3/Fin.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/08/2026

I’m in the middle of a separation/divorce (which is thankfully amicable), but I have had to move home recently which has been a massive change as you’d expect, whilst also having to manage ADHD burnout/general decline in my overall physical and mental health, coupled with a change of medication. 2/~

Colour scan of a scrapbook page. A half-developed Polaroid instant film photograph has been taped to the page and shows Anne as a ghostly figure in the image as the chemicals have not fully developed. On the bottom of the photograph is a label in uppercase that says ‘Tell Me How To Disappear’.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/08/2026

So. I still take photos. Just about. A few projects in the works. A few irons in the fire. The little fire in my soul still just about there. 2026 has been rough, but I want to hope that things are on the up. 1/~ #FilmPhotography

Colour film photograph showing a newspaper kiosk with newspapers in metal stands in the afternoon sunshine. Hammersmith, London.

Colour film photograph taken on the Bakerloo line. A person dressed in black on the left is talking on their mobile phone, whilst other passengers seated opposite are scrolling on their devices.

Colour film photograph showing hire bikes parked outside the Elizabeth line entrance for Liverpool Street Station. Pigeons sit on the bikes and they have littered their droppings both on the bikes and on the glass covering on the station entrance.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 13/03/2026

Managed to get a wee busman’s holiday too in Peru with two amazing train journeys. 🚞 Firstly, the train from Lake Titicaca to Cusco; around ten hours of stunning scenery up and down through the Andes. Then a return trip from Cusco to Machu Picchu Pueblo/Aguas Calientes. 😍

A blue PeruRail diesel locomotive pulls a formation of similarly painted coaches as part of the Titicaca observatory train, which is currently making its way around a curved portion of track that runs through the Andes, alongside the Urubamba River

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 12/03/2026

Missing the estancia and the gaucho life, 🇦🇷 San Antonio de Areco, February 2026. 🎞️ Kodak Pro Image 100. 📸 Ricoh GR1V. 🧪 Dev/scan Tokyo Photo Lab, Buenos Aires. #FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography #Travel #Argentina

A colour film photograph showing a landscape scene in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina. To the left of the image is a gaucho on horseback, tracking through an open plain under the middle of the sun and blue sky.

A colour film photograph showing a scene of gauchos of San Antonio de Areco and women in traditional Argentine dress, dancing and entertaining guests to their ranch, under the shade of the trees

A colour film photograph taken under the shade of the trees at an Argentine ranch in San Antonio de Areco. A gaucho lies on the grass in the shade whilst he watches one of his horses grazing beside him.

On a wooden table under the shade of the trees at an Argentine ranch sits a plate of freshly made empanadas

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/11/2025

As ever, I'm terrible at promoting my own work, but on the off-chance that anyone is in London next week, I have two pieces being exhibited in a group exhibition. 📍 Morning Lane Studio, London, E9 6ND 📅 Thu 27th Nov ⏰ 8PM - 10PM RSVP: partiful.com/e/NObR09kP7P... Cheers! #London #FilmPhotography

A digital flyer featuring a background of a colour film photograph of a UK zebra crossing scene on a road in Chiswick, West London, with an aeroplane in the sky flying into some clouds. White text on top says 'Monad Presents 'Here & Now' Photo Exhibition 27/11'.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 02/11/2025

I'm still sad about what happened to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. I visited the foundry back in 2016; I walked past it last month, and besides it looking very unloved and no longer a hive of activity, the site has stood still since operations ceased in the spring of 2017. #London #FilmPhotography

Black and white film photograph of the exterior of the former Whitechapel Bell Foundry site, as seen from the corner of Fieldgate Street/Whitechapel Road. A flock of pigeons are caught mid-flight, blurred in the photograph as they fly upwards, disturbed by the noise of a passerby putting something in a nearby commercial wheelie bin. The old and hand-painted wooden sign for the foundry on the brick wall is covered in pigeon droppings, with paint peeling from the large sash windows.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 09/07/2025

Last weekend, I met Kit Mackintosh. Sat at a typewriter in the middle of Covent Garden, he invited people to pay what they want for a poem on a topic of their choosing. I asked him to write a poem about overcoming sadness. www.version3point1.co.uk/blog/sadness #FilmPhotography #London #Poetry

An instant film photograph (with a distinctive white border) of Kit Mackintosh in a black shirt with the top buttons undone. They are sat at a sage green typewriter, in the middle of Covent Garden, London, with a yellow sign (that can't be fully seen) that says 'POEM' on it.

An instant film photograph (with a distinctive white border) of Kit Mackintosh in the middle of Covent Garden, London, sat on a camping chair in front of a small wooden garden table. On top of the table is a sage green typewriter, with yellow signs on the front of the table and back of the chair that says 'Poem - about you or any topic - pay what you want'. A crowd has gathered around the typist.

A scan of an A4 piece of white card with lower case typewriter text; a poem about overcoming sadness by Kit Mackintosh. It reads as follows:

we exist at times uncumbered
under ashen night
we are swallowed
by those figments of our
minds
at times by reality
by those concrete agonies
that have severed us from
loved ones
and at other times
they are those accidents
of mind
those sadnesses
that are whispered
in thoughts that
exist awry
and, in the former, we wait- we patiently
see that these agonies are temporary
and for those that are writhing in
our mind- we must learn to exist in the bliss
of sensation- in not feeling
we must seek to be overcome in thoughtless ecstacy

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 30/06/2025

Another shot that didn't make the cut for the recent exhibition; but it remains one of my favourites. Taken at Aldgate, I've always love the light there. 🎞️ Fuji Industrial 100, expired. 📸 Ricoh GR1V. 🧑‍🔬 Dev/scan by @analoguewonderland.bsky.social. #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmPhotography

A colour film photograph in portrait orientation of a scene at Aldgate Station on the London Underground. The shot is taken from an upper staircase, and the afternoon light is streaming into the station and down onto the platforms from an open-air side of the station. There is a staircase with a wooden handrail that leads the shot down onto the platform, where a Metropolitan line train is waiting in one of the middle platforms; on the adjacent Circle line platform, a passenger is waiting as he scrolls on his smartphone, and his shadow is partially cast along the platform with the bright sunlight shining down on him.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 24/06/2025

‘Then and now: London's Transport in Photographs’ is on display at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Thank you to the Museum curators and @analoguewonderland.bsky.social for the freedom to work exclusively with film for this exhibition. #FilmIsNotDead Press portrait ©️ Alick Cotterill

Press portrait photograph of Anne, by Alick Cotterill. She is in her denim jacket, covered in colourful patches, and wearing some colourful trousers with sunflowers printed all over. She is sat cross-legged on the floor under some photographs of London's transport in a gallery space within the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 10/04/2025

The irony of that last shot of TCR, when some of it currently looks like it’s suffering from water ingress, and there’s smashed glass panels and fittings across the network (Liverpool St is pretty bad for it).

Water ingress shown as brown and dirty marks on glass panels at Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth line station. The seepage covers several square metres and is situated close to an escalator.

A smashed glass panel, framed with black and yellow hazard tape, at Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth line station.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 10/04/2025

Anyhow, this may or may not make the cut, but shot this one recently on a project roll. Modern life scene no. 19271. 🎞️ Fuji Pro 400H, expired. 📸 Bronica ETRSi. 🧑‍🔬 Dev/scan @analoguewonderland.bsky.social #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #StayBrokeShootFilm #FilmPhotography

A colour film photograph in landscape orientation, taken at Hammersmith (District and Piccadilly lines) London Underground Station. The scene shows an elderly man wearing dark clothing, glasses and a flat cap as he scrolls on his smartphone. He is sitting on a wooden bench, which has a large Underground roundel on the back of it bearing the station’s name. A black walking stick rests standing against his thigh as his legs are crossed, left over right. He has a black shopper trolley standing to the side of him.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 28/03/2025

I've been loaned a Bronica ETRSi for the current assignment - a dream to shoot with. Here's one of my favourite shots from Baker Street. @lomography.com LomoChrome Color'92, box speed. Dev/scan @analoguewonderland.bsky.social. #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #London #TfL25

A colour film photograph of a Bakerloo line train stationary in the platform at Baker Street London Underground station. The shot looks through to the lit interior of the carriage, where a passenger with brown shoulder length hair is seated and has their eyes momentarily closed. The lighting and shadows of the photo gives it an overall moody feel.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 01/02/2025

The same roll, but the colours tweaked (very quickly) just to show how different it is when you remove some of the green colour cast. I am still learning about how some scanners can result in various colour shifts depending on the emulsion/film base, but sometimes the results are interesting.

A colour film photograph of a London bus stop at night in the middle of winter. The image is quite grainy due to the film, and there are halos around the street lights and the bus stop light due to the type of film used.

A colour film photograph of a the London Underground roundel (a red circle with blue bar across it) with its station name at Holborn London Underground Station on the Piccadilly line platform. There is a slight halation around the platform lights due to the type of film used.

A colour film photograph of a London bus stop the Boston Manor Road in Brentford, at night, in the middle of winter. The image is quite grainy due to the film, and there are halos around the street lights and the bus stop light due to the type of film used. The metal structure of the elevated section of the A4/M4 roadway can just about be seen in the darkness.

Portrait-orientation colour film photograph taken in the afternoon at Boston Manor London Underground Station on the Piccadilly line. The scene shows a Piccadilly line train on the platform, just about to depart. Shooting into the afternoon sun, which shines through the glass of the waiting room, shadows of lines of the frames are being gently cast on the paving slabs on the platform.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 01/02/2025

Just some @cinestillfilm.bsky.social 800T (box speed), but without any post-lab scan colour correction. It really is a vibe, but do you tweak the colours or leave it? Dev/scan by @analoguewonderland.bsky.social. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #London

Colour film photograph of a reflection of a Metropolitan line train at night in a dirty mirror on the platform at Watford London Underground Station. The film has given the image a slight green tint.

Colour film photograph of a bus stop in Brentford in the middle of the day in winter. The bus stop is surrounded by wooden blue hoarding as the building behind is now a demolition site. Two passengers are at the bus stop; one is standing with their back turned to the camera, while the other is sitting and looking at their phone. The film has given the image a slight green tint.

Colour film photograph taken at night on the top deck of a double-decker London bus. Shot between the seats on the bus is a discarded juice carton resting on a seat. The image is slightly out of focus. The film has given the image a slight green tint.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 24/01/2025

Ty. I did try it when it first launched on a half-frame camera, but I'm not sure where I went wrong with it as the results were too muddy for me (it definitely needs a lot of light). Some suggest shooting it at 100, so I think I'll give it another chance, but on 645 format next time around...

High contrast colour film photograph of some red moquette seating on a London bus. The sun is shining brightly through the windows.

Colour film photograph of Baker Street Platform 1 on the Metropolitan line, looking down the platform towards the rear of a Metropolitan line train, with Chiltern Court and the Baker Street/Allsop Place office buildings in the distance.

High contrast colour film photograph taken in the afternoon sunshine outside Aldgate London Underground Station. A red Evening Standard newspaper stand is on the pavement in the sunshine and dark shadows are cast by the station entrance canopy on one half of the image.

High contrast colour film photograph taken in the afternoon sunshine outside on the outdoor portion of the platform at Uxbridge London Underground Station. A roundel bearing the name of the station is on a rectangular concrete block.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 24/01/2025

Anyhow, peeps. We've found a new favourite film in the form of Mr Negative 700S (shot at 400, on an old Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor rangefinder that I managed to break in about five minutes). All images dev/scanned by the amazing people at @analoguewonderland.bsky.social #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead

Colour film photograph in portrait orientation of a concourse at Acton Town London Underground Station (District and Piccadilly lines), taken in the afternoon light, looking towards the sun. The sunshine is streaming through the rectangular Art Deco-style windows, casting a warm bright light on the square floor tiles, and the photographic film used creates a contrast between the shadows cast by pillars and walls, as well as long irregular rectangles of light on the floor from the windows.

Colour film photograph in landscape orientation of a cross-passageway Farringdon Station (Elizabeth line), looking down the tunnel towards a passenger in a red coat standing on the platform waiting for a train. The photographic film used creates a slight haze with the lights above, as well as a slight green tint to the image.

Colour film photograph in portrait orientation of a staircase detail at South Harrow London Underground Station (Piccadilly line), taken in the afternoon. The sunshine is streaming through the rectangular Art Deco-style windows, casting a warm bright light on the red brick wall, as well as irregular rectangles from said windows, that highlight some of the brass handrail along the wall.

Colour film photograph in portrait orientation of the platforms at Aldgate London Underground Station (Metropolitan and Circle lines). The photographic film used creates a slight haze with the light, as well as a slight green tint to the image. The station is cut-and-cover, and a road can be seen going above one of the platforms, with a red London bus just passing through the shot. There as passengers going down a set of stairs towards a train that is standing in the platform.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 24/01/2025

For what it's worth - the current transport purgatory that is Acton Town Station has no business looking this amazing in the (rare) afternoon winter sun (I'm actually offended, given the recent Uxbridge branch/rolling stock dramas). #London #FilmPhotography

Colour film photograph in the portrait orientation of a concourse at Acton Town London Underground Station (District and Piccadilly lines), taken in the afternoon light, looking towards the sun. The sunshine is streaming through the rectangular Art Deco-style windows, casting a warm bright light on the square floor tiles, and the photographic film used creates a contrast between the shadows cast by pillars and walls.

Colour film photograph in landscape orientation of a concourse at Acton Town London Underground Station (District and Piccadilly lines), taken in the afternoon light. The sunshine is streaming through the rectangular Art Deco-style windows along a cross-passageway, casting a warm bright light on the square floor tiles, and the photographic film used creates a contrast between the shadows cast by pillars and walls, as well as creating irregular rectangles of light on the floor from the windows.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 01/01/2025

Phoned up Service Controller to let him know for the next train in. Meanwhile, as I was on my way upstairs, he’s asked me to pop into the manager’s office to ask them to “secure” it… and ‘lo, some nylon rope and hazard tape later, it remained attached to its post. Hopefully will be fixed tonight.

A platform barrier at the end of a London Underground station platform. It is a grey metal swing gate on a post, leading to a track ramp, however this one is damaged and hanging on by its top hinge. It has been secured with several reams of hazard tape and some nylon rope.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 30/12/2024

Starting the new year as I mean to go on, with a run of 04:45 book-ons. 🤢 Dragging myself out of bed at some ungodly hour this morning wasn’t much fun, but someone has to do it. 😮‍💨 Same again tomorrow and on 1st Jan… 🥲 #MemeRailway #MetLineChronicles

Early morning in Uxbridge Sidings. A Metropolitan line train departs another stabling road in the direction of Hillingdon.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 30/12/2024

A sedate Christmas/Boxing Day in Kent. In-laws recently moved to outside Canterbury, so our first Christmas there (& also walked off some of the seasonal excess in Ramsgate). As we float in the space between 25th Dec & NYE (where nobody knows what day it is); best wishes to you all for 2025. 💛

Canto the Tabby Cat in his new house in Kent, looking very cute and relaxing on the wooden floor near the Christmas tree in Kent.

Ramsgate Main Sands on the 28th December, with a rather dull overcast and a few people walking along the beach.

Ramsgate Marina during a late December twilight, with many of the boats illuminated, including a small white boat named ‘Lady M’ that has an illuminated ‘Ho Ho Ho’ decoration, along with fairy lights and a very large inflatable Santa on the deck of the boat.

Anne drinking a pint of Guinness in a tiny pub in Littlebourne, Kent, which features wooden beams and looks very homely.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 28/12/2024

Patrick’s parents may have moved away from the 5 mins walk around the corner that we used to have, but the tradition of meeting his Marlow school friends in a wee Maidenhead pub still remains. This also includes our annual tradition of calling a friend all the way in Taiwan for Christmas carols..

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 28/12/2024

Spent most of 24th trying to recover from mental whiplash of work, before our annual Craufurd Arms Christmas Eve in Berkshire. There wasn’t a Guinness shortage when I arrived; there may have been when I left 6 pints later. Annual Sticky Man game & my Simpsons Crimbo shoes also made an appearance.

Several pints of Guinness on a picnic table in a beer garden.

Several people in a gazebo in a pub beer garden looking up at a small yellow toy stuck to the roof of the gazebo. There are also several pints of Guinness dotted around.

Anne’s trainer shows with white laces. They are a navy blue colour with red and white foxing stripes and a festive print featuring The Simpsons cartoon characters.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 21/12/2024

Last night was ‘hump’ day (shift no. 4 in a run of 7) for me. Every day this week, something has happened on the #MemeRailway. _Shattered._ Yesterday my windscreen wiper jammed IN THE RAIN burning out the motor. No spare trains, so I had to sit around to get it fixed. #MetLineChronicles #Tubegeek

Driving cab of a Metropolitan line S stock train, with the cab fully shut down. The train is in Neasden depot awaiting assistance as the windscreen wiper on the driving (left) side has jammed in a position to the extreme left of the window. It is also raining.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 21/12/2024

Husband surprised me with a trip to Copenhagen last weekend. 🇩🇰 It mostly rained, but we had a grand time. He booked a hotel room that overlooked the beautiful railway station 💛, and we even got to go to Malmö 🇸🇪 on the train!

Overlooking Copenhagen Central Station and Hotel Astoria during sunrise from the sixth floor of the Plaza Hotel.

Danish flags hang from the wooden beams of the roof of Copenhagen Central Station, as morning sunlight shines through the station windows.

Instant photos of Copenhagen Central Station with a train ticket showing a journey from Copenhagen to Malmö (Sweden).

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 13/12/2024

Rounded off the working week with a job interview (ft. li’l yellow trains), a metal crab, and an edible snowman.

Two small yellow London Underground battery locomotive trains sit at Ruislip Depot under cloudy skies.

A large metal crab decoration that appears to hold a glass bowl full of lobster and prawn cocktail, with a lobster-shaped cracker on top.

A white chocolate snowman dessert on a milk parfait at The Ivy restaurant.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 11/12/2024

Our guy @mitchelmor.uk doing the Lord’s work this morning as I start another day on the #MemeRailway. Thank you, bro. 🙏 #MetLineChronicles #RailwayFamily

A small Italian confectionery item in brown and red paper wrapping with white and gold writing. It says “Pocket coffee espresso”.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 04/12/2024

Meanwhile, the Evening Standard, which used to lambast us in print on a regular basis as part of their previously printed-daily life, has since been phased out to a weekly print edition. 😂 I am wondering if it might eventually be a paperless operation in time!

Evening Standard article from October 1977, with the headline ‘Driverless Tubes by 1990’ in relation to driverless London Underground trains.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 03/12/2024

Day 2 of a run of earlies and 02:30 alarms. 😴 My weekend off after a run of nine lates was needed, but it also feels like it was in another life. #MetLineChronicles #RailwayFamily

Uxbridge Sidings, with a Metropolitan line train in the distance shunting out. Taken from a place of safety.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 30/11/2024

I’m with you there with the railway museum in Kyoto. It’s so good, I’ve been multiple times. 😂

At Kyoto Railway Museum, Japan. Anne, who is very small, holding onto a handrail on the side of a very large Japanese train that leads up to the train driver’s driving cab.

At Kyoto Railway Museum, Japan. Anne standing in front of one of the original Shinkansen bullet trains. Its round, streamlined nose dome can be seen.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Love this from Hammersmith when I was heading east last weekend to see friends. Did you know that if you wave at a train driver, if we see you, it restores our souls & a bit of our HP? We will always try to wave back if it’s safe to do so - just remember to stay clear of the platform edge! #London

A small child, who is behind held tightly by their parent, also holding a pushchair, is waving at an oncoming District line train at Hammersmith. The train driver’s hand can be seen waving back.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 29/11/2024

But as part of having to put together a ‘mood board’ for my current #Tubegeek adjacent project, here’s a few snaps taken during this week’s #MemeRailway commute. Acton Town, the variation of afternoon winter sun lighting the main concourse, and shadows/contrast on the platform:

Shadows of the art deco window frames at Acton Town London Underground Station, the light forming an irregular diamond shape on the floor in contrast to the shadows around it.

Shadows of the art deco window frames at Acton Town London Underground Station, the light forming an irregular rectangular shape on the floor in contrast to the shadows around it.

Long shadows being cast across the Acton Town Station platform, with the bright afternoons illuminating a stationary Piccadilly line train. A passenger waits in dark clothes, with a dark red leather backpack on their back.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 25/11/2024

Mondays. Amirite? Back in the hospital this morning (after surviving the carnage in the hospital car park..), more blood work, then computer packing in meaning I couldn’t do something semi-important before heading off to work…

Close up of some doors and a screen that shows ticket numbers for blood tests at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, West London.

Anne’s arm with a cotton wool pad covered with medical tape over the inner part of her left elbow.

Anne’s MacBook Pro showing an error message in multiple languages to say ‘Your computer has restarted because of a problem.’

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 24/11/2024

Not the London weather doing a complete 360 on us this week like an _absolute arsehole_. Give me minus whatever degrees and clear skies, but please spare me the drizzle crap and the gusts. 😫

Wooden staircase with metal tread plates leading down to the station platform at Boston Manor London Underground Station on the Piccadilly line. The metal tread plates are painted yellow on the edges and there is some tactile paving also painted yellow. Afternoon sun shines onto platform and casts a long shadow where someone is standing.

The Boston Manor end of Northfields Piccadilly Line Depot in the drizzle and night. The wind and drizzle is causing a halo around the floodlights.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/11/2024

Meanwhile: Back at work, ☀️ sunshine today in London and beautiful golden light when the sun was low this afternoon. Quite nice to bask in it briefly at Watford today when I was changing ends earlier, but it’s definitely chillier than last week! 🥶 Thank goodness for thermals! #MetLineChronicles

The golden light and shadows cast by the late-afternoon sun along the platform at Watford London Underground Station on the Metropolitan line.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/11/2024

Had a late lunch in Brussels in one of my most favourite places in the world, À la Mort Subite. I could people-watch here for hours, and the staff and locals here are always so friendly. It’s a real ‘slice of life’ café with a rich history too that dates back to the early-20th Century.

Interior of Brussels café, À la Mort Subite. The decor is very neutral with high ceilings, cream walls and pillars, with wooden tables and chairs and bench seating. There are also huge mirrors that make the room look bigger. Anne’s rainbow hat and scarf hang on a coat hook on a nearby pillar.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/11/2024

Met up with @llbroadwell.bsky.social (very briefly!) yesterday morning for a walk(!) around ‘dam and a catchup, before heading back on the rails for my return journey back to London via Brussels.

A yellow and blue NS intercity train waiting to depart Amsterdam Central for Brussels.

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Anne • アン 🇵🇭 @version3point1.co.uk · 20/11/2024

I was in Amsterdam on Monday evening to see my mate’s band @86tvsband.bsky.social playing at Paradiso. Always lovely to catch up with them and having a wee boogie.

Indie band 86TVs playing in the upstairs room at Paradiso in Amsterdam. From left to right, brothers Felix, Will, and Hugo White, with Jamie Morrison on drums.

Felix White’s handwritten set for the 86TVs gig at Paradiso, Amsterdam on 18th November 2024. Has notes in brackets from the sound engineer that says ‘Don’t scream’.

Felix White and Anne in the 86TVs dressing room. Felix is wearing a blue and orange New York Mets (baseball team) jacket and Anne is wearing a green Pakistan cricket team retro World Cup shirt.

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