Between April 2020 and March 2021, 114,000 items were handed into TfL's lost property. They included everything from 90's-era mobiles to urns full of ashes.
A double mattress is one of the more unusual items handed into TfL’s Lost Property Office over the past year Covid restrictions may have meant fewer journeys on public transport, but Londoners still left more than 110,000 items on buses, trains and tubes.
They are held at the office, currently based in Kensington, for three months from the date they are handed in.TfL’s performance manager Paul Cowen has looked after the LPO for almost 10 years. ‘Clothing changes in style, the value of the items, it reflects on the fact that we are more of a consumer society and also possibly a more disposable society.
Among the usual suspects of items found at the LPO are umbrellas, documents, pairs of glasses and mobiles – but you’ll also discover urns full of ashes and even a double mattress.When asked what some of the weirdest items he had seen handed into the office during his decade in the job were, Mr Cowen said: ‘If you can carry it on public transport, you can lose it and people bring almost everything and they lose almost everything.‘One of the things we haven’t had is a bowling ball.
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