Researching the history of the Piccadilly and Victoria lines for my current project, I'm finding fascinating old photos. This is Piccadilly Circus, 1960-65 (borrowed from here)- the signage looks so very quaint and old-fashioned now, the clothing so vintage... The line was extended to Hounslow West in 1933 and to Heathrow in 1977. Until 13 February the V&A has a small exhibition about Charles Holden's contribution to the architecture of the Piccadilly Line. These research explorations always throw up unexpected things - did you know about "tubewalking"? You can tubewalk through history ...
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Those signs were still around in the 70's!
Still got those signs at Earls Court (District line)
Many thanks for the link to tubewalking. Wish it had been around when I lived in London. Sally
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