An updated second edition of Douglas Rose’s illustrated survey of the wall tile patterns at a number of London Underground stations.
The book starts with a look at the historical background to the development of the Underground network and the part played by American financier Charles Tyson Yerkes and architect Leslie Green in designing the stations including tiling, lettering and signage. This is followed by entries for each of the stations covered, featuring photos of station entrances as well as reproductions of the wall tiles used at platform level.
Yerkes established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the District, Baker Street & Waterloo, Charing Cross Euston & Hampstead and Great Northern Piccadilly and Brompton Railways, and thus all central London deep Tube stations on the Bakerloo, Northern and Piccadilly Lines that were open in the early 1900s are included along with those on the northern sections of the Northern and Piccadilly Lines as far as Golders Green, Highgate and Gillespie Road (now Arsenal).
224 pages. Hardback.