February 3rd, 2014 at 7:06PM
destroyed-and-abandoned: “ 50 Year Old Posters Discovered in London’s Notting Hill Subway Station. Photos by Mike Ashworth. ethan_kahn: “ The London Underground is an incredible maze of subterranean railways, stations and ticket halls – and that...

destroyed-and-abandoned:

50 Year Old Posters Discovered in London’s Notting Hill Subway Station. Photos by Mike Ashworth.

ethan_kahn:

The London Underground is an incredible maze of subterranean railways, stations and ticket halls – and that doesn’t account for the myriad abandoned passageways that are strictly off limits to the public, let alone the aging relics that linger on in this dark underworld that has only been touched on by urban explorers.

But a 2010 upgrade to Notting Hill Gate “tube” station revealed a series of vintage posters dating to between 1956 and 1959. The posters, which will be left intact once the modernisation work is completed, include advertising for Pepsodent Toothpaste and the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, as well as films like Around the World in 80 Days and The Horse’s Mouth, starring Alec Guinness.

The vintage collection was uncovered in an abandoned lift passageway closed to the public after Notting Hill Gate was last upgraded in the late 1950s. The ’50s facelift saw the “two” Notting Hill Gate stations of the District and Circle lines linked by a sub-surface ticket hall beneath the road. Escalators down to the deeper Central Line platforms replaced the ageing elevators, which were sealed off by the time the station reopened on March 1, 1959. source

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