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| If you can contribute anything more to the results
I have captured, I would be very interested to hear from you, either
by e-mail at: Yerkes+dougrose.co.uk *
or via the postman at: 35 Summers Lane, North Finchley, London N12
0PE. |
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| ALL IMAGES ON THIS SITE ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT - most
of them mine. If you want to use any of them then please e-mail me
(see email address above). I have about 6000 more. London Transport
Museum has an extensive photographic archive covering all its activities
and the image on the Trafalgar Square page is just one of thousands.
Enlargement prints are available. Visit www.ltmuseum.co.uk |
| I have been surveying, recording, studying and interpreting
the Yerkes decorative tile patterns on London's Underground, in microscopic
detail, for a quarter of a century. This work started about three-quarters
of a century after the stations opened in 1906/7. I now have realizations
of all 94 platforms which include the locations of every individual
tile, wherever it has been humanly possible to establish it. A few
platform realizations are complete, many are almost so, some have
varying amounts of detail missing and unresolvable, a few have almost
nothing known by me. |
| If you are able to contribute any facts, stating your
sources, then I would be delighted to hear from you. Any photographs,
even those not taken of the tiling but with some of it visible in
the background, at ANY of the Yerkes stations, (See
Yerkes Network Map in Context) would be of interest. That said,
stations for which very little is known and therefore of particular
interest are: |
| Archway (opened as Highgate): Both platforms were
fully re-tiled in the late 1970s. I have LT Museum photographs (showing
overnight trackwork but with some poorly illuminated tiling in the
background) numbers U16553 and U16554. I also have a number of photographs
in the TC/338 series (21st April 1978) which contribute almost nothing.
There is of course also the well-known posed publicity photograph
of the southern end of the southbound platform (a member of staff
guiding three ‘passengers’ onto car 132). Do you have any photographs
taken on the platforms before the re-tiling? If anyone has definitive
dates (an LT Press Release perhaps) concerning the re-tiling of the
platforms in the late 1970s, this would be nice to know too. |
| Baker Street (Bakerloo only): The two platforms
were completely re-tiled from early 1980 (just after the Jubilee Line
opened) and my researches missed this, having started a year later.
I have many black & white (18750 series) and colour images (W/72C
series) from LT Museum but little of it covers the tiling in any detail.
If anyone has any photographs of these platforms before 1980 I would
very much like to see them. |
| Charing Cross (Northern Line): This station closed
in 1973, before which it was called Strand. It re-opened in 1979 having
had its platform tiling obscured by a melamine-panelled mural (the
tiling is still behind it, I wonder if x-ray equipment works?). I
have a number of black & white photographs which have allowed some
sort of realization to be constructed for some areas but it is very
fragmented. I have LT Museum photograph numbers U1466, U26253, U35776
(X292/82), U35777 and several from the 14188 series. Do you have any
photographs taken on the platforms before the melamine panels went
up? Does anyone know who the contractors were that put them up - perhaps
they took some photographs? |
| Down Street: This closed in 1932. The platforms
were heavily used during the Second World War and this caused a lot
of tiling to disappear. I have surveyed this one several times over
the last 15 years and therefore know what is down there now. Photographs
taken when it was still in use would be very welcome indeed. |
| Knightsbridge: The complete re-tiling of both
platforms was finished by 1934. I have discovered no photographs at
all for this station before then. A very small area of tiling survives
inside an equipment cupboard, but that's it. |
| Leicester Square (Piccadilly and Northern Line):
The complete re-tiling of all four platforms was finished by 1935.
I have no information whatsoever for the Piccadilly platforms and
only a small amount of evidence from one on the Northern Line, inside
a cupboard. LT Museum photograph numbers U4590 and U4591 are of next
train describers and show a very little (unsharp) tiling detail in
the background. Anything else would be welcome. |
| Oxford Circus (Bakerloo): If anyone has definitive
dates (an LT Press Release perhaps) concerning the re-tiling of the
platforms in the late 1960s (or was it early 1970?), this would be
nice to know. |
| South Kensington deep-level District platform:
This was built to about one third of its intended length and fully
tiled on the platform side. Several photographs exist in the LT Museum
archive from its latter days as a Signalling School and I am aware
of numbers U4379, U4380, U4381, P5043, P54044, P5045, P5046, P5049,
P5050 and H7749, which all show tiling in the background. |
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