Secro prize

This year as part of my uni course we are entering the serco prize which is based on london stories :) I didn't know that much about London but as I did my research I started with one of the main buildings that I knew about and looked into stories surrounding it. I found out about the tower managerie which is great as I love an excuse to draw animals and create stories.
The tower managerie had many of the first animals of their kind in England and many of them had interesting stories as to to how they got there such as gifts etc. I decided to create many narratives in one image and as it is the secro prize based on london transport I decided to use this transport to get to london and I'm going to incorporate many landmarks of london into the image And make it decorative. The piece had to be 20x30 inches and I have never worked that big so let the challenge begin....
Here are some initial sketches and very rough ideas.