#london underground

Out and about on the District line

New update of my travel poster for Transport for London, including three new destinations and a garden city vibe

32 candid photographs of the London Underground in the late 1980s.

Here’s a piece I did about how a little bit of art can brighten up even the most mundane tasks, if we take a moment to stop and notice.

It was for a contest with the theme of “urban sound”.

Uncovered wall at Oxford Circus Underground Station, London

Westminster tube station - London

That hot guy on the Tube

If I had to squish up against these fellow commuters during morning peak-hour, I’d have no problem giving them the ‘wrong idea’!

Docklands

Marlene Dietrich being a total London Underground babe in 1973.

When popular brand logos are turned into Chinatown-styled neon-signs. 

Faceless London Project

“There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept”

Ansel Adams

London Underground Tube Map dress. 4 available made to measure, any size

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(via17 of the best alternative tube maps of 2013 – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London)

TUBE SPY

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Notting Hill Gate station, London, 1868.

London, 1867.

London Underground, which opened 150 years ago this week.

During the Blitz in 1940 many tube stations were used as air raid shelters.

Two miles of the Central Line were even converted into a giant aircraft factory, something which was an official state secret until the 1980s.

London Underground, which opened 150 years ago this week.

When the Circle line was opened in 1884, The Times described it as “a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it”.

A poster from the Underground Electric Railway Company in 1924. This particularly colourful poster illustrated the wide variety of contemporary London fashions at the time.

Navigators or “Navvies” building the London Underground in the late 1800’s - early 1900’s. Navvies were cheap labourers and mostly miners from Cornwall, or farmers from Scotland and Ireland. They were willing to go wherever there was work and found steady work with railway companies across Britain. Building the Underground was a long and dangerous process. There were many serious injuries and deaths during construction, including a horrific incident where two men were killed by an exploding boiler of a steam engine. They also had to contend with frequent floods. The Navvies also had a rather bad reputation of men who worked hard and played even harder, unwinding in the evenings with legendary drinking sessions that almost always ended in a mass brawl. The railway company was hit with several complaints from the police, landlords and members of the public, all of whom demanded that the men be properly managed.