Plaque Wording: London Bridge 1825 - 1967
These granite slabs are coping stones from the former London Bridge which was dismantled in 1967 and re-erected in Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA. Designed by John Rennie, the bridge was opened in 1831 and has since featured in many films and books including those of Charles Dickens. Substantial parts of the abutments and walls still remain and are preserved as part of the fabric of the new bridge, where two large granite stair chambers (including 'Nancy's steps') still exist as part of the original Rennie southern vault.
Southwark Heritage Association - Southwark Heritage - alive today, working with Transport for London.

Plaque Wording: Loughton Station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: John Murray Easton 1940 This is the third Loughton Station to have existed since the town was first served by the railway in 1865. The current building was built on behalf of London Transport by the London & North Eastern Railway. It replaced the 1865 Great Eastern Railway station that was situated a little to the south which had been built as part of the extension to Epping and Ongar. The original 1856 station had been located nearer the High Street on what is now the site of Lopping Hall. The station opened for suburban steam train services in 1940 and was transferred to the underground with the introduction of electrified Central line services on 21 November 1948.
The main structure consists of a high, square block dominated by large arched windows, similar to the façade of Kings Cross mainline station. The main elevation is flanked by symmetrical, single storey extensions which extend out at right angles to form flanking walls that frame the public access paths. The whole building, as well as the associated disused signal cabin and sub-station, is finished in carefully monk bonded, incised, gault brick that was imported from the Netherlands. The ticket hall interior takes the form of a lofty arched hall which at one time had a circular ticket dispensing machine in the centre.
The two island platforms are dominated by graceful, gull-winged shaped reinforced canopies that have been subsequently altered, covering over the circular skylights that once formed the edge of the canopies. A remaining example of this glazing can still be observed in the subway. Original timber platform benches survive, with the underground roundel forming the seat backs, but sadly the original concrete gull wing lighting columns have been lost.

Plaque Wording: Heritage Information Maida Vale Station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Stanley Heaps The Bakerloo line extension from Paddington to Queen's Park opened in February 1915, although Maida Vale was not fully completed until 6 June that year. Architecturally the station design closely follows the format of the tube stations designed by Leslie Green in 1906/7 and seen throughout London. It is a sad irony that although Green was born and lived in Maida Vale for much of his life, and designed so many underground stations, he never lived to see his local station built. He died of tuberculosis in 1908.
Maida Vale was one of the first stations to be built with escalators installed from the outset. This altered the design from previous stations as the escalator machinery was below ground so the station had no need of a mezzanine.
The red terracotta exterior (or Sang-de-boeuf faience facade) differs in detail from earlier Leslie Green stations as here the pilasters are carried the full height (with decorative lamps attached), use simplified mouldings and exclude the heavy keystone features to the arches. The original external iron lamp brackets still survive today. The station once utilised both sets of stairs in the ticket hall, one for the entrance and the other for the exit. The entrance level retains the rare and original mosaic tiled roundels depicting a solid red circle, which was the design used until the roundel was redesigned in 1919. The station was sensitively restored in 2007/8 during which the whole of the original tiling scheme was carefully replicated.
The station surface building and the distinctive staircases mosaics feature in Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film 'Downhill' , as well as the 1982 film 'Runners', written by Stephen Poliakoff. Both films feature shots down the escalators, those in the earlier production being the original wooden escalators.
The station was Grade II listed on 26 March 1987.

Plaque Wording: Manor House station Architect: Adams, Holden & Pearson (Charles Holden) 1932 Opening on 19 September 1932, this was the first station on the northern extension of the Piccadilly line beyond Finsbury Park. The station has very little prominence at street level with only limited canopy structures over the park-side entrances. There were also originally subways that served now demolished tram loading shelters that stood in the middle of the road. The asymmetrical ticket hall was carefully designed so to make best use of space and Holden took great care in the details and finishes to features such as the central columns. The ceiling, decorated in a pattern of circular mouldings with inset lighting compliments the unusual shape of the ticket hall. The platforms were lined to give an elliptical or egg shaped profile to enable the recessing of equipment and furniture to give clear lines of sight. The platforms tiles were originally made by Carter's Poole Potter{y} in Dorset and are similar to other adjacent stations apart from the different coloured border tiles - here they are blue. Also of note are the bronze ventilation grilles that depict a stylised play on the station name. These were designed by Harold Stabler R.D.I., a notable artist and designer, who was elected a "Royal Designer for Industry" in 1936 He was closely connected with the Poole Pottery. In 2006 a modernisation of the station resulted in the platform wall tiles being sensitively replicated according to the original design. In addition the crude strip lighting that had disfigured the ticket hall ceiling was removed.

Plaque Wording: To the memory of Christopher Jones 1570 - 1622, master of the Mayflower. He landed 102 planters & adventurers at Plymouth Massachusetts 21.Dec.1620. They formed the Mayflower Compact & the first permanent colony in New England.

Plaque Wording: Northfields station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners. 1932
The first station opened here in 1905, on the District line, but the present building was constructed as part of the 1930s extension of the Piccadilly line that helped fuel the suburban growth of this once rural part of London. Holden's impressive building takes the form of a single storey plinth, which contains offices and shops, and is faced in black glazed brick. the tall brick box that forms the ticket hall has a window that includes the Underground roundel. The design continues down to platform level, where extensive use is made of concrete, which at the time was a novel concept.

Plaque Wording: Oakwood station Listed as a building of National Significance Architects: C. H. James with Adams, Holden & Pearson, 1933 The station opened on 13 March 1933 as part of the extension to Cockfosters. The station was originally named Enfield West with a suffix 'Oakwood' being added in 1934, following a local Borough Council petition to name the station 'Merryhills' or Oakwood Park'. The reference to Enfield was finally dropped on 1 September 1946.
The station building is a fine example by the architect Charles Holden built for the Piccadilly line extensions, with a large and imposing box-shaped ticket hall spanning the railway lines. At lower level within the interior use is made of black glazed bricks with white pointing lines and above the ring beam walls are of "No.2 light brown Welsh" pressed brick. The rear of the ticket hall forms a gallery across the tracks with steps down to the island platform. The ends of the gallery have since been closed off and adapted into offices and more recently the step-free access lift that was added in 2007.
The concrete platform canopy was designed by Stanley Heaps, the Underground's architect. It is cantilevered from a single row of piers with seats in between fitted with glass screen partitions as windbreaks. The piers, staircase and nameboard plinths were painted in three colours: black skirting, elephant grey dado and green waistband. The colour scheme for the canopies included yellow and pale primrose.
When the station opened in 1933 a commemorative bronze plaque was fixed to the ticket hall wall claiming 'This station is the highest point in Europe in a direct line west of the Ural Mountains in Russia'.
Like other extensions of the London Underground lines, the opening of the Cockfosters extension stimulated the rapid development of new suburbs and much of the open countryside that had existed in 1930 when construction started was quickly covered by new housing developments.
The station was Grade II listed on 19 February 1971.

Plaque Wording: Park Royal station Listed as a building of National Significance Architect: Landers & Welsh, 1936
This impressive building situated on Western Avenue, one of the new arterial roads built in the 1930s, replaced an earlier station further to the west that had opened in 1905. It was designed, especially the imposing tower with the illuminated roundels, to be a landmark showing the importance of the Underground in the new suburban landscape.
Although influenced by the work of the Underground's architect, Charles Holden, the station is unique. The main elements of the design - the staircases, the circular ticket hall 'drum', and the tower - are carefully integrated with the parade of shops and adjoining flats that form part of the design.

Plaque Wording: Heritage information. Piccadilly Circus Station. Listed as a building of national importance. Architects: Entrances and ticket hall - Adams, Holden & Pearson in collaboration with S.A. Heaps, 1928 rebuild.
Piccadilly Circus opened on 10 March 1906 on the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (Bakerloo line). The Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (Piccadilly line) platforms and interchange opened on 15 December 1906. When originally built the station had a street level building incorporating a ticket hall designed by Leslie Green, which stood on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket. This was abandoned following the 1928 redevelopment and has since been demolished. The increasing number of people using the station led to a major redesign and a new sub-service ticket hall and circulating area designed by Charles Holden, which would also provide public pedestrian subways opened in 1928.
Due to the difficulties in managing the roads above the station, the current ticket hall was excavated from the bottom upwards rather than the traditional 'cut and cover' method more commonly used. The high cost of such a complex task prompted the 'Office of Woods and Forests' to transfer the rights in the subsoil of the Circus to the Underground for a sum of ten pounds. Walls and stairwells were finished in cream Travertine marble with a coffered fibrous plaster panelled false ceiling. The roof itself is supported by four central columns, with fifty other columns spaced around the columns in two rows. The columns were clad in a maroon scagliola {imitation marble or stone} which was enhanced by the tungsten lighting then in use.
The first fluorescent tube lighting to be used on the Underground system was installed on the westbound Piccadilly Line platform on the 2 October 1945. All four platforms were left untouched by the 1928 reconstruction but extensively modernised by the Underground in 1987.
The ticket hall was Grade II listed on 2 October 1983.

Plaque Wording: 1812: Construction of Regent's Canal attracted Irish navvies & their families. 1956 saw the last horse-drawn barge.

Plaque Wording: The ramp up to the towpath opposite this wall is one of a pair either side of the railway bridge and was used to rescue horses which when startled by the trains sometimes bolted and fell into the canal (note - the long shot is approximate, cannot find the original plaque 08/2022)

Plaque Wording: Heritage information Regents Park station Architect: Leslie Green, 1906 Regents Park station opened on 10 March 1906 on the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. The line then ran between Baker Street and Kennington Road (now Lambeth North).
The building of the railway began in June 1898, financed by Whitaker Wright, the wealthy owner of an English mining company. In 1900, Wright's finances were called into question and he was arrested for fraud following the collapse of his companies, and the building of the railway stopped. On 26 January 1904, Wright was convicted of fraud at the Royal Courts of Justice and given a seven year prison sentence. He committed suicide by swallowing cyanide tablets in a court anteroom immediately afterward. On 7 March 1902, the American financier Charles Yerkes bought the remains of the unfinished railway for £360,000 and paid for its completion. Sadly, Yerkes died on 29 December 1905, just months before any of the new stations opened. The station was designed with typical Leslie Green architecture using heavy green relief tiles in the ticket hall. These were replaced in 1986 (although some still survive in staff accommodation areas) with a crude white, grey and red tile scheme as part of a project to introduce ticket gates and replacement lifts, but fine replicas have since been reintroduced in the station entrance subways. The spiral stairs down to the platforms retain the original 1906 tile scheme while the lower routeways and platforms received a sensitive replication of the original scheme as part of a station refurbishment in 2007.

Plaque Wording: Ruislip station Listed as a building of National Significance. Architect: F F C Curtis, 1904 The Metropolitan Railway constructed the branch line between Harrow on the Hill and Uxbridge and services commenced on 4 July 1904 with, initially, Ruislip being the only intermediate stop on what was an amazingly rural branch, running through open countryside. At first, services were operated by steam trains, but track electrification was completed in the subsequent months and electric trains began operating on 1 January 1905. The junction with what was to become the Piccadilly line at Rayners Lane was opened in 1910 and, over the next three decades, development spread turning this part of Middlesex into part of London's expanding suburbia. The building is a fine example of an 'Edwardian' Metropolitan Railway station, exhibiting many features of a typical branch line station of the period. The symmetrical brick built structure is dominated by the central block, that forms the ticket hall and entrance, which is balanced by the single storey extensions to both sides. The façade consists of a blue brick plinth, with banded red brick above. The steeply pitched roof is finished in tiles, capped by a decorative ridge with finials. Three of the four original chimney stacks survive (although these have been shortened). The platform canopy is complete with original cast iron columns and decorative canopy valances. Other later additions, including the footbridge with its recently restored roof, help complete the picture of a style of branch line station that was once common on Britain's railways and that now serves the Underground.

Plaque Wording: Southgate station Listed as a building of national significance Architects: Adams, Holden & Pearson. 1933 Southgate station opened on 13 March 1933 on the second phase of the northern extension of the Piccadilly line from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters.
The station is one of the best known of the many stations Charles Holden designed for London Underground. The station building is circular with a flat projecting concrete roof. Externally, the flat roof of the raised central section appears to be supported by nothing more than a horizontal band of windows that provide natural light to the interior, although it is actually supported from a central column in the ticket hall. The whole building is topped by an illuminated feature resembling a Tesla coil, The station is externally flanked on two sides by circular reinforced concrete waiting shelters including the "bullseye" roundels which were designed by Stanley Heaps.
The station retains much of its original decorative style. The two escalators have the original column lighting which has been adapted to meet modern lighting requirements, while bronze panelling is in evidence throughout the station. In 2007 the station was extensively renovated to bring the station back to its former glory. The tiles were renewed using the original colour scheme while sensitive repairs were undertaken to the ticket hall area. In recognition of this renovation the station gained a National Railway Heritage award in 2008.
The station was originally Grade II listed in February 1971 and subsequently Grade II* listed in 2009.

Plaque Wording: Sudbury Town Station Listed as a building of National Significance Architect: Adams, Holden & Pearson Partners, 1932
The original station opened on 28 June 1903 on the Metropolitan District Railway extension from north of Ealing Common to South Harrow. It was rebuilt in preparation of the transfer of services to the Piccadilly line on 4 July 1932.
Sudbury Town is seen as one of the seminal works of the architect Charles Holden and as such it set many of the elements for the other Underground stations he was to design in the 1930s. It saw the move away from the use of Portland stone, as had been seen on his previous designs for stations such as Ealing Common, towards a more European idiom based on unadorned concrete and brick that was a real change in British architecture of the day. It is viewed by many as being one of Britain's best buildings of the time.
The main structure consists of a red Buckinghamshire brick 'box', flanked by single storey extensions and all topped by a concrete flat roof. Each façade is punctuated by a large vertical window that allows natural daylight to flood in and at night, be illuminated - making the building, as intended, a beacon in suburbia. The design also integrates the overbridge and other buildings. The ticket hall still retains much of the original decor including the original passimeter and, on the platforms, the original designs for concrete fencing and lampposts are still used. Some of the signs on the station make use of of the rare, serrifed variation of the traditional Underground Johnston typeface.

Plaque Wording: (brass plaque, photo on left) From near this spot, December 19 1606, sailed with 105 'adventurers': The 'Susan Constant' 100 tons. Capt. Christopher Newport in supreme command; The 'Godspeed' 40 tons. Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold; The 'Discovery' 20 tons. Capt. John Ratcliffe. Landed at Cape Henry, Virginia April 26 1607. Arrived at Jamestown Virginia May 13 1607 where these 'adventurers' founded the first permanent English colony in America under the leadership of the intrepid Capt. John Smith, Edward Maria Wingfield President of the Council, the Reverend Robert Hunt and others. At Jamestown July 30 1619, was convened the first representative assembly in America. Erected by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1928 in commemoration.
(on Marble Base, photo on right) Virginia Quay. The Virginia Settlers Memorial tablet was unveiled in 1928 on the wall of Brunswick House which formerly stood about 100 yards to the west of this point. In 1999 Barratt Homes Limited reinstated this monument and commissioned the mariner's astrolabe by Wendy Taylor C.B.E.

Plaque Wording: Turnpike Lane Station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners, 1932
Built as part of the 1932/33 Piccadilly line extension to Cockfosters from Finsbury Park, this station was designed to act as an interchange between trains, bus and tram. One now disused subway entrance used to allow access to a road island that formed a tram stop. The building is typical of the Holden 'brick box' style of station, here with tall, vertical ventilation towers that give a greater street presence. The ticket hall's high ceilings are exaggerated by the fact that the floor is several meters below street level. The fluted bronze uplighters are rare survivors and are typical of Holden's care and attention to design detail.
The platform tiles were originally made by Carter's Poole Potter in Dorset and are similar to other adjacent stations apart from the different coloured border tiles. Noteworthy are the bronze ventilation grilles that depict a stylised play on the station name. These were designed by Harold Stabler R.D.I., a notable artist and designer, who was elected a "Royal Designer for Industry" in 1936. He was closely connected with the Poole Pottery.
In 2006 a modernisation of the station resulted in the platform wall tiles being sensitively replicated to the exact original scheme.

Plaque Wording: Water Meeting Bridge. Re-built by the St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council and opened by His Worship The Mayor of St Pancras, Councillor T R Morris, JP on 22nd November 1961. Alderman Harold P. Bastie - Chairman Highways Committee C. S. Bainbridge MPGB, FRICS, MIMunL.- Borough Engineer & Surveyor L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd - Engineers James Crosby & Sons Ltd - Contractors R. C. E. Austin, LLM - Town Clerk

Plaque Wording: Arnos Grove Station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners. 1932
Built as part of the 1932/33 Piccadilly line extension, this station is internationally recognised as one of the most iconic transport buildings of the 20th century. The emphatic design, that was so novel when built, is of a tall brick drum rising from a low, square structure that include shops and offices. The interior is dominated by the central column and 'passimeter', and shows the careful attention to integrated design that is so notable on this group of stations, linking together the use of materials, such as brick, concrete and bronze work.

Plaque Wording: Blackwall Tunnel London County Council
Commenced 1892 and opened in 1897
by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
on behalf of
Her Majesty the Queen
List of names follows
{underneath}The above plaque was removed from the original tunnel entrance gateway which was demolished in 1959 to make way for the new Northern Approach to Blackwall Tunnel

Plaque Wording: Heritage information Boston Manor station Listed as a building of National Significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners, 1934
Originally opened in 1883, the station was rebuilt as part of the 1932/33 Piccadilly line extensions. Unlike other contemporary stations on the line the design does not display the tall 'box' structure for a ticket hall. Instead a low level structure in brick and concrete was developed, but with a prominent tower designed to act as a signpost to the station in the local landscape. The use of an 'advertising tower' was popular with Dutch and German architects at the time. At platform level the original Victorian structures are retained.