Harry Beck Harry Beck Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974), known as Harry Beck, was an English technical draughtsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office. London Underground was initially sceptical of Beck's radical proposal, an uncommissioned spare-time project, but tentatively introduced it to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It was immediately popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since. Prior to the
Harlington Manor those works, the house had also been extended in the 17th and 19th centuries. The house is private, but intermittently open to the public by private arrangement, or by "Invitation to View". Its exterior possesses a blue plaque, part of the Harlington Heritage Blue Plaque Scheme, commemorating the appearance of John Bunyan at the house. Harlington Manor Harlington Manor is a grade II* listed manor house in Harlington, Bedfordshire. The house abuts, and has views over, Bury Orchard, the village common, which itself abuts the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. English Heritage, in their listing notice, ascribe Harlington Manor