Category: Underground London

The tube station at Great Portand Street Station

Great Portland Street is one of London’s original tube stations. It was part of the Metropolitan Railway line which was not just London’s but the world’s very first…

Alone, underground

For a very brief moment I was completely alone in the tube station. It was late at night, no trains were on the platforms and the absence of…

Down in the tube station at 11.45pm

I took these on my way home from a midweek night out. I had the place to myself. Clapham South was empty.

Henry Moore – down in the tube station at midnight?

There’s a new exhibition of Henry Moore’s work at Tate Britain which runs from February 24th to August 8th, 2010. It includes some of the most famous pictures of London during…

Cyril E Power – going down the tube between the wars and a visit to ‘Appy ‘Ampstead

What a cracking image! Sleek and modernistic. Very 1930’s. It’s called Whence and Whither – a great title to boot! – and was produced by Cyril E, for Edward, Power in 1930….

Bread heads: raising a toast to London.

I took a turn around the 2010 London Art Fair a week or so ago. This piece amused me once I’d worked out what was going on. Its an…