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Post by londonstuff on Jul 29, 2013 12:42:41 GMT
These are in today's Grauniad. Can't remember if they've been posted here (I have actually looked) but if they have someone just shout and I'll delete the thread. What a change in twenty to thirty years. Clicky |
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Post by Rich32 on Jul 29, 2013 18:46:25 GMT
Excellent find. Great pictures of a time gone by, yet so recent.
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Post by miff on Jul 29, 2013 20:09:17 GMT
A selection on the Telegraph website too.
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 30, 2013 11:26:29 GMT
that's was really odd at first picture - i was wondering why two people climbing over the closed gate (unlike today - automatic gates and manual gates)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 30, 2013 11:39:50 GMT
that's was really odd at first picture - i was wondering why two people climbing over the closed gate (unlike today - automatic gates and manual gates) Those gates would only be closed when the station is closed: I suspect they had been accidentally locked in after the station closed? |
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Post by SE13 on Jul 30, 2013 13:21:18 GMT
Great little collection, so many changes over the years and it shows!
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 30, 2013 15:31:44 GMT
that's was really odd at first picture - i was wondering why two people climbing over the closed gate (unlike today - automatic gates and manual gates) Those gates would only be closed when the station is closed: I suspect they had been accidentally locked in after the station closed? the gates has emergency release from inside so if anyone trapped - they could unlock from inside - just pull flap and pull lever - i can't remember if staff has to be open it |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 30, 2013 16:24:35 GMT
the gates has emergency release from inside so if anyone trapped - they could unlock from inside They may not have realised that though! |
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Post by snoggle on Aug 3, 2013 20:58:04 GMT
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Post by antharro on Jan 10, 2014 0:03:34 GMT
Also on the Telegraph here. |
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Post by bicbasher on Jun 11, 2014 19:17:31 GMT
Bob Mazzer was on ITV News this evening, I've recorded the report and uploaded to YouTube.
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Post by Chris W on Jun 19, 2014 8:41:33 GMT
A video appeared on the Guardian website yesterday:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 0:22:50 GMT
Someone on the TripAdvisor London forum asked a few days ago if anyone could identify the station in one of the Bob Mazzer photos. If you go to www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10911556/Long-gone-London-Underground.html and select photo number 07, you'll see the top of the stairs to a street entrance/exit. Does anyone recognise this station? Or are there any useful clues from the tiling or any other feature? Note that the stairs descend immediately after the entrance, which presumably means that the ticket hall is below street level. There is an advert across the road for Universal College London, which is currently based in SW9 (Brixton/Stockwell area), but that doesn't mean that the advert is in that area. Any ideas? |
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Post by bassmike on Jun 23, 2014 9:21:17 GMT
Tooting Bec?
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Post by John Tuthill on Jun 23, 2014 9:39:04 GMT
Someone on the TripAdvisor London forum asked a few days ago if anyone could identify the station in one of the Bob Mazzer photos. If you go to www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10911556/Long-gone-London-Underground.html and select photo number 07, you'll see the top of the stairs to a street entrance/exit. Does anyone recognise this station? Or are there any useful clues from the tiling or any other feature? Note that the stairs descend immediately after the entrance, which presumably means that the ticket hall is below street level. There is an advert across the road for Universal College London, which is currently based in SW9 (Brixton/Stockwell area), but that doesn't mean that the advert is in that area. Any ideas? It's taken from the exit from Clapham Common Station, the one in the middle of the road, looking towards the east side. Check out the windows on the building and then compare with Google Map. |
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Post by Ben on Jun 23, 2014 19:38:19 GMT
The pictures are still engrossing despite being on the net for a year or so now. Theres something about that period on the Underground.
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Post by Chris W on Jun 23, 2014 20:02:39 GMT
They show a period of great social change, much lack of investment and inequality.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2014 1:24:27 GMT
It's taken from the exit from Clapham Common Station, the one in the middle of the road, looking towards the east side. Check out the windows on the building and then compare with Google Map. Brilliant! Thanks very much. |
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Post by MoreToJack on Jul 8, 2014 3:05:28 GMT
A selection of the photographs are also now available in a book published by Spitalfields Life and available from the London Transport Museum, amongst others. It's £20 which, personally, I think is fantastic value for a very nice pictorial record of the Underground.
What I particularly like is that every image tells a story, and leads you to think what the run up to the image was, and what happened next?
HTH.
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Post by snoggle on Jul 8, 2014 10:33:09 GMT
A selection of the photos are on display at a gallery in Shoreditch. The exhibition closes soon though - 13 July. link |
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