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Housed in the vitamin-enriched majesty of a former Victorian oat-puffing plant, this gallery holds the largest collection of paintings, sculptures and photographs of cereal mascots in the world - including the controversial Lucian Freud portrait of a neckerchief-less Tony the Tiger.
Tracey Emin's sexually charged Snap, Crackle and Pop, from the National Cereal Mascot Portrait Gallery's permanent collection
Tracey Emin's sexually charged Snap, Crackle and Pop, from the National Cereal Mascot Portrait Gallery's permanent collection
This 7-hectare patch of lush tropical jungle owes its existence to Willesden's unique microclimate.
The supply of laboratory-grade sulphuric acid for the nation's school science lessons has to be kept somewhere, and that somewhere is this reservoir in East Finchley. The previous storage facility, a hospital swimming pool, proved unsafe and so in 1998 the Government decided that Finchley's artificial lead-lined lake, unused since the war, was the perfect successor.
Controversial at first, the half-mile wide expanse of H2SO4, surrounded by acres of blighted wasteland, has become a popular destination for a relaxing day out - a place where all the family can don breathing apparatus and watch the ducks dissolve. It's also handy for murderers, or anyone with evidence to destroy.
Controversial at first, the half-mile wide expanse of H2SO4, surrounded by acres of blighted wasteland, has become a popular destination for a relaxing day out - a place where all the family can don breathing apparatus and watch the ducks dissolve. It's also handy for murderers, or anyone with evidence to destroy.
(Source image: Kaptain Kobold/Alan, licensed under Creative Commons 2.0)
