You won't find Harry Beck's face on any coins or postage stamps, but his fingerprints are all over London. Born in 1902, Beck was an English engineering draftsman who sparked a small revolution in the early 1930s when he created a radical new map of the London Underground. His linear,...
Internationally famous for the iconic and influential London Underground diagrammatic map (1931), Beck designed very few maps for other transport organisations, and this map of the London Suburban Lines appears to be the only one published during his lifetime. It depicts the suburban lines out of...
Amongst the achievements began by the UERL were extensions of the Underground network, simpler fares and contemporary branding and designs, ranging from the famous Harry Beck tube map and the Roundel, to Charles Holden’s iconic Underground stations. -Beck’s 1933 London UndergrounD Map While it ...
The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas. The earlier lines of the present London Underground network, which were built by various private companies, became part of an integrated transport sys
The Adelphi(Map: E-7) - Elegant housing complex along the Thames built by the Adam brothers in the 1760s (Adelphi is Greek for brothers) and torn down in the 1930s(Leapman, 1989, p. 78). A few of the elegant homes in the area still stand, such asnumber 7 Adam Street(Weinreb et...
The following extract from a 1963 underground map shows the station configuration with Charing Cross Station where the Embankment Station can now be found with Trafalgar Square and Strand Stations just to the north. This is the view looking from roughly where the car had stopped in 1948 into the...
“The strangely coveted title of London’s Rudest Landlord is now vacant, as its long-time holder, Norman Balon of the Coach and Horses, Soho, tucks the sale price of the pub into his locally made suit and takes the Underground home to his home in Golders Green. Mr. Balon, 79, has...
This isn’t just the underworld... This isThe Underground. Tape’s rolling, mic check, everything crystal? Alright. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the London branch of the SID. If you are seated here in this room today, consider yourselves lucky, because the tasks which appear before yo...
Go behind the scenes at some of the city’s busiest stations and uncover secret spots and fascinating stories of London's Underground or log on for virtual tours. 16. Open House London and Open Garden Squares Venture into private gardens, urban oases and rooftop paradises, as green spaces ...
along with Breguet’s watch, they include Louis XV’s rhinoceros, a detailed map of the moon by Jean-Dominique Cassini, and Claude-Siméon Passemant’s Clock of the Creation of the World (1754). The watch, meanwhile, has its own fascinating history, including two decades in which its wh...