Underground Cartoons - Above board, but not over our heads

Meanderer

Supreme Member
iu
 
The Artist Who Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

In the 1920s artist Douglas MacPherson shone a light into the darkness. He unlocked King Tutankhamun’s sealed tomb and cut-away the London’s Underground to reveal wonders beneath the city’s streets. After a four-year project the new station was unveiled in 1928.

Construction-work-at-the-ticketing-area-of-the-new-Piccadilly-tube-station-1928..jpg

Construction work at the ticketing area of the new Piccadilly tube station, 1928.

piccadilly-station.jpg

The Mayor of Westminster turns on the escalators at Piccadilly Circus in 1928.


But what about what the passengers and shoppers could not see?
READ MORE
mail_rail_1926_cutaway_of_entire_route_-_copyright_royal_mail_group_ltd__courtesy_of_the_postal_museum.jpg
 
Last edited:
Back
Top