Just wanted to let everyone know that after getting in touch directly with the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, we’ve now made our pledged donation based on our sales of Spitfire Jack. It ended up being £100 based on current exchange rates.
Thank you to everyone who bought a Spitfire Jack shirt – you’ve helped out a worthy cause!
In honor of our current t-shirt – Mind the Gap – here are 13 random facts and figures about the London Underground you probably didn’t know.
There are a few days left to buy our limited reprint run of Mind the Gap – our tribute to the London Underground. Available in men’s, women’s, long sleeve, v-neck, hoodie, sweatshirt and tote bag starting at $16.99 and shipping worldwide. Order now before it’s too late!
1. Today the Tube carries 1,107 million passengers each year to 270 stations.
2. London Underground is colloquially known as ‘the Tube’, which originally referred to the deep-level train lines which were used by trains of a smaller and more circular cross-section, as opposed to the less deep “cut-and-cover” lines that were built first and originally used steam locomotives. The term now embraces the whole system.
3. The average speed of a Tube train is 33km per hour/ 20.5 mph
4. The number of miles/km travelled by each Tube train each year is 114,500 miles/184,269km
5. The length of the Tube network is 402km/249 miles
6. Every day over 1000 people accidentally leave something on the Tube. All the items are sent to a basement office in Baker Street that employs 40 full time staff. At any one time it holds 200,000 items of lost property; some of the weirder items in the past have included Samurai swords, false teeth, three dead bats and a 14 foot boat. Items not claimed after 3 months are either sold at auction or given to charity.
7. The disused tube station Aldwych is often seen on screen, and was used as a location for scenes in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Atonement and V for Vendetta
8. The maximum depth of the Tube below ground level is at Holly Bush Hill in Hampstead, where the deep level lines run 68.8 m/221ft under ground
9. The longest escalator is at Angel station: it’s 60m/197ft, with a vertical rise of 27.5m/90ft
10. Baker Street is the station with the most platforms – it has 10
11. London’s busiest Tube station is Waterloo, with 57,000 people entering during the three-hour morning peak. The busiest station in terms of passengers each year is also Waterloo with 82 million
12. During 2011-12 The London Underground carried a record numbers of passengers with 1.171 billion journeys made
13. Albus Dumbledore, a character from the Harry Potter series, has a scar just above his left knee in the shape of the Tube map
There’s still 4 days left to get your exclusive Mind the Gap t-shirt! All orders must be in by January 2nd, 2015.
Now that Spitfire Jack is almost out the door, we can reveal the details of the donation we’ll be making. When we sold the shirt, we pledged to donate $1 from the sale of every shirt to the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, the organization that maintains the memorial to the men who fought the Battle of Britain. They’re raising funds to build a new museum on the site.
We sold a total of 173 shirts, which means we’ll be making a donation of $173 to the Trust.
Thank you so much to everyone who bought a shirt – we’re chuffed to be able to make such a large donation and it will certainly go to a good cause!
This video is so cool that we just had to share it. There are only a few airworthy Spitfires left and back in 2010 to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, they managed to get together 16 of them to do a flypast in Britain. It’s an amazing site – something I wish I’d seen in person!
The planes fly in formation and then after that, they chase each other around like they did in battle – show their power and maneuverability. It will give you goosebumps!
Put some headphones on and then watch this on full screen. You won’t regret it!
There’s still 2 days left to get our Exclusive Spitfire Jack t-shirt during it’s special reprint run. It’s going to make a fantastic Christmas present!
In honor our our latest shirt here at Anglotees, Spitfire Jack, check out this really cool old newsreel footage about the Battle of Britain and the Spitfire.
Such brave men!
We’re donating $1 from the sale of every Spitfire Jack t-shirt to the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, the organization that maintains the Battle of Britain Memorial.
We’ll be sharing more cool stuff about the Battle of Britain as the week goes on.
We’ve added up the sales from our recent Winston Churchill Shirt and we sold a total of 118 shirts. We promised to donate $1 from every shirt sold to The Churchill Centre, so we will be donating a total of $118 today. Many thanks to everyone who bought one of these shirts and enabled us to make such a large donation!
Here’s a segment about the Red Phone Box from a lovely little show that aired many years ago called Disappearing London hosted by Suggs (from Madness). I’m sharing this segment because it gives a little bit of history behind the iconic London Red Phone Box that is actually very interesting. It also explains the differences between the different types. Check it out.
There’s still two days left to get our Red Phone Box London Calling Shirt: http://bit.ly/MxSw4K
