Essential History | The people, places and events that have shaped our history and culture
The people, places and events that have shaped our history and culture
Historical locations, people and buildings in London
The station is celebrated globally as a masterpiece of 20th-century British Modernist architecture Opened on 19 September 1932, Arnos Grove was designed by the renowned architect Charles Holden under the direction of Frank Pick. It was built during the northward extension of the Piccadilly line from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters.The Design: Inspired by European modernism—specifically […]
station is highly celebrated for its distinctive Art Deco / Streamline Moderne architecture. Designed by the renowned architect Charles Holden, it opened on 13 March 1933. The circular brick, concrete, and glass building resembles a classic “flying saucer” or spaceship design. Its prominent flat concrete roof is supported entirely by a ring of horizontal windows […]
Reach the northern terminus of the Picadilly Underground Line and it’s hard not to envision uniformed wartime personnel cascading out of trains and across the station concourse. Opening in 1933, Cockfosters is the most distinctive and avant-garde stations on the London Underground network, eschewing Victorian-era brick in favour of concrete, foretelling the arrival of postwar […]
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The Tower Subway is an historic tunnel that runs beneath the River Thames from Tower Hill to Vine Lane on the south bank. Built in 1869 it is an engineering innovation and recognized as the world’s first deep-level tube railway. (The Thames Tunnel, three miles downstream, predates it but is a much larger diameter railway […]