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Circa 1950: London Underground rat-catchers with their net and ferrets.
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1952: A group of women cleaning one of London’s underground tunnels.
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Known as ‘flutters’, they would clean the tunnels at night, after the last train had gone and the current had been switched off.
1952: Advertisements being pasted up.
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1952: Tube cleaner.
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Harry Weatheley, surfacing from a vent under Piccadilly Circus underground station.
1952: Tube train at Piccadilly Circus.
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1952: Liverpool Street.
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1952: Kingsway Tram
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1954: Underground fluffers.
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1955: Underground life.
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1955: All-night dancing.
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After leaving the ‘Club Americana’, a Saturday night jazz club open from midnight until 7 a.m., American troops and their girlfriends wait at Piccadilly Circus Station for the first train home, London, 25th November 1955.
1956: Downtown Soho.
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1956: Piccadilly Circus.
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1956: Rush hour.
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1956: Rush hour, London Bridge.
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1957: Tube music.
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1957: Silver trains.
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Sir John Elliott, Chairman of the LTE shaking hands with the driver of the new prototype ‘silver’ tube train at Northfields station on the Piccadilly line.
1958: Bus strike.
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1958: Oxford Circus.
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1958: Oxford Circus.
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1958: London Bridge
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1960: Publishing liberalised.
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1963: Frenchman in London.
Georges Bidault (1899 - 1983) wanders through London’s Piccadilly Circus during his period of exile from France.
1963: Oxford Circus.
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1964: Mystery package.
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West Ham manager Ron Greenwood holds the F.A Cup, won by his team against Preston North End the previous Saturday, as he waits for a train on the London Underground, 5th May 1964.
1964: Sikh underground.
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3rd September 1964: Amar Singh, a sikh who works for London Underground, has been allowed to pin his badge to a turban after a protest against having to wear the standard uniform hat.
1966: Piccadilly Circus.
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1966: Matching fur.
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26th August 1966: Actress Louise Thompson crossing the road outside Earls Court underground station, London, with a portable radio covered in ponyskin to match her fur coat.
1968: Tea on the Tube.
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A London Undergroung official drinking a cup of coffee during trials of new automatic trains on a section of the Central Line. The trains are intended for use on the newly opened Victoria underground line.
1968: Station telephones.
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1969: Foot sore.
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3rd July 1969: Footsore office girls rest their weary feet in Bow, East London, as they make their way to work during a one-day strike by Underground signalmen.
1969: Bus queue.
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A large queue of commuters wait for a bus during a one-day strike by London Underground.
Circa 1863: The first Metropolitan train on the underground line passing through Praed Street, London.
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Chancellor William Ewart Gladstone on an inspection tour of the world’s first underground line, 24th May 1862.
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Liverpool Street station, circa 1890.
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Map and illustrations showing the new Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton underground tube route, linking London stations from Hammersmith to Finsbury Park, 1906.
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Hammersmith Broadway, 1910.
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The interior of a District Line Underground carriage, 1911.
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The ticket hall of Liverpool Street Station, 1912.
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The platform of the Central London Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station, 1912.
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Interior of an all-steel London underground train, circa 1920.
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A man writing on a complaints poster, 1922.
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Farringdon Street (Farringdon) Station in March 1924.
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The entrance to Blackfriars Underground station, 1924.
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Clapham South, 1926.
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London tram workers queue up for their pay at the tram subway in Kingsway, High Holborn, 1926.
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An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926.
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The Mayor of Westminster turns on the escalators at Piccadilly Circus in 1928.
British director Anthony Asquith (1902-1968), right, directing his new film ‘Underground’ from an escalator on the London underground, May 1928.
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Construction work at the ticketing area of the new Piccadilly tube station, 1928.
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The Hon Anthony Asquith filming commuters for his film of the underground, 1928.
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Platforms are lengthened at Euston Square underground station, 1930.
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A passenger takes a ticket from the machine at Piccadilly Circus, 1930.
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A traveller buys a London Underground season ticket from a vending machine at Highgate Station, 1932.
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Passengers on an escalator, September 1932. The posts were erected to avoided a crush during rush hours.
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Leicester Square, 1933.
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A group of Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner, circa 1935.
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New interiors in 1936: more seating, better lighting and ventilation and a more streamlined shape.
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A passenger opening one of the doors on the Hammersmith and City Underground Line, which have been fitted with new buttons for opening and closing doors, 1936.
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London’s Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station on the left, 1938.
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The entrance to Embankment, 1938.
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A strike causes huge queues to build up at the bus stops outside Liverpool Street, 1939.
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Stockwell station, 1939.
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City gents, 1939.
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A guard outside a station which has been closed to the public two days after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, 5th September 1939.
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People asleep on the platform of Holborn underground station during an air raid, 1940.
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People asleep on the platform at Piccadilly Tube Station, London during an air raid, 1940.
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People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station, London, during an air raid, 1940.
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Piccadilly, 1940.
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Piccadilly, 1940.
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Construction work at the ticketing area of the new Piccadilly tube station, 1928.
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The Hon Anthony Asquith filming commuters for his film of the underground, 1928.
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Platforms are lengthened at Euston Square underground station, 1930.
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A passenger takes a ticket from the machine at Piccadilly Circus, 1930.
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A traveller buys a London Underground season ticket from a vending machine at Highgate Station, 1932.
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Passengers on an escalator, September 1932. The posts were erected to avoided a crush during rush hours.
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Leicester Square, 1933.
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A group of Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner, circa 1935.
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New interiors in 1936: more seating, better lighting and ventilation and a more streamlined shape.
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A passenger opening one of the doors on the Hammersmith and City Underground Line, which have been fitted with new buttons for opening and closing doors, 1936.
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London’s Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station on the left, 1938.
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The entrance to Embankment, 1938.
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A strike causes huge queues to build up at the bus stops outside Liverpool Street, 1939.
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Stockwell station, 1939.
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City gents, 1939.
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A guard outside a station which has been closed to the public two days after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, 5th September 1939.
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People asleep on the platform of Holborn underground station during an air raid, 1940.
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People asleep on the platform at Piccadilly Tube Station, London during an air raid, 1940.
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People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station, London, during an air raid, 1940.
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Piccadilly, 1940.
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Piccadilly, 1940.
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