But if you ask us for our all time fave museum button. When the new, interactive Young V&A opens in July, we're going to be a quivering mess. It hardly even matters what the button actually does, although chances are it'll just make an area of a map light. They're so much better than all the vases and sculptures and writing and stuff. The absolute dream as a kid (and adult) is pressing the buttons in museums. On the subject of buttons on tube trains, we did once have the pleasure of pressing the two - yes, two - buttons that make tube trains move off from each station. Our advice? Buy yourself a decommissioned Jubilee line tube button, turn it into a doorbell and press it to your heart's content. We all know what happens next: the door flings opens before you can make flesh-to-button contact, and your arm jerks upwards to scratch your head, as if that was the plan all along. Even as a seasoned Londoner, we've occasionally forgotten we're not on a mainline service and - the shame! - gone to press the button. Like lift buttons, those on tube trains are usually gratuitous. Like the head-twisting combo we snapped at Centrepoint (above). ![]() On the opposite end of the scale, some lift buttons we wouldn't DARE press. We remember the time an elevator concierge at The Shard sighed at us "You don't need to do that" when we tried to press the button to take us to the 31st floor (sounded like the 31st time he'd told someone that day.) Underground lifts at the likes of Covent Garden and Borough don't require pressing either, although that won't stop tourists from having a bloody good try. ![]() But here's the rub: often the lifts are on auto, and you needn't - nay, can't - put your dirty digits anywhere the buttons. London's bristling with buildings tall and tube stations deep. Because sometimes, you just fancy a chianti over a Coke Zero. And an honourable mention in our 'booze buttons' section should go to the wine vending machines at branches of Vagabond. More Press for Champagne buttons are to be found in the booths at St Pancras station's fizz bar (see above) situated alongside the Eurostar tracks.
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