Depot Discoveries
The Museum’s depot in Acton Town is a brilliant place. It’s full of fantastic objects, from trains to hat badges, posters to taxis. The Depot is a working museum store housing over 370,000 objects, and...
View ArticleAccess to Art tour
On Wednesday 30th November one of our esteemed volunteers, John Campbell, gave a tour of the museum’s Depot in Acton. The tour was given to a group of students who are using our collection as a...
View ArticleSense the City: Meet the Photographer Q&A – Danielle Houghton
This Q&A is part of the Sense the City Flickr Project. For background on this project see Sense the City – Flickr Project. Tube story by Danielle Houghton, 2011 Tell us about the inspiration...
View ArticleAccessioning Tickets
At the Museum Depot in Acton Dilwyn Rees and David Clark regularly accession ephemera into the Museum’s collection. Their main focus is on tickets – from bus, rail and tram to trolleybus tickets,...
View ArticleActon Depot Open Weekend Oct 2012 – First impressions of a new volunteer
As Sam Clift (Volunteer Coordinator) put it to me, what better way to ease my way into writing the volunteer blog than to attend the Acton Depot on the first day of the Open Weekend in October? So on...
View ArticleActon Depot Open Weekend Oct 2012 – It Couldn’t Happen Without Them
As promised I’m returning to the topic of the Acton Depot Open Weekend, but this time concentrating on some of the volunteer activities. Well, where better place to start than meeting and greeting?...
View ArticleSo That’s How they Keep Them So Clean: Working Party at Acton Depot
Roughly every month there is a volunteers’ working party at Acton Depot, so with keen anticipation I made my way to the depot on the 23rd October to see what one involves. On arrival I tracked down...
View ArticleThere’ll be no conflicting movements at the Depot (Part 1)
In my time as a volunteer with the museum I’ve noticed that “the signalling team” is always mentioned in hushed tones as a look of awe spreads over the face. Now my personal view of signals has always...
View ArticleThe Signalling Team (Part 2)
So, who are these keepers of the dark art of Underground signalling? The first thing to say is that some of the team were not at the Depot when I called by, so this post concentrates on the three that...
View ArticleA Happy Museum? Of Course!
Museums are not just about their contents, important though the exhibits are. It’s increasingly recognised that museums have an important part to play in the well-being of people generally, and not...
View ArticleNew LGBT+ collecting
By Ellie Miles, Documentary Curator To celebrate the start of Transgender Awareness Week, on Monday 12 November 2018, TfL flew the trans pride flag above 55 Broadway. Perhaps the flag, as well as more...
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