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Tottenham Court Road featured the full Guinness Open Gate advertising in the previous post on this latest collab with TfL, however Covent Garden, being the station nearest to the Guinness mini brewery in Covent Garden, received quite a minimal format of the special advertising devised for this campaign. In some reports (such as Diamond Geezer)…
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These days one could query whether TfL is getting drunk on beer. But its not what things quite seem to be! Despite a ban on alcohol TfL certainly takes on a bold stance when it comes to the question of advertising things that have apparently been banned by the organisation. In this latest collab which…
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Just over a week ago I published a feature on the new pictures at Oxford Circus tube which featured the history of escalators on London’s underground. One curiosity was the fact all the pictures were in chronological order other than the final three which were set out as 1976, 1950 and 2014 (that’s in the…
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Work on the down northbound escalators at Oxford Circus is accompanied by a novelty rarely seen at any escalator work on the tube. This is a photomontage of images depicting escalator history and building. While this has been done at one, maybe two, other tube stations, this particular exhibit includes a photograph of London’s only…
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Fifty years ago in February 1959, the last tube trains to served this particular station were withdrawn. The station itself eventually became hidden for good by huge advertising boards and the only proper reminder it ever existed was a footbridge that apparently went nowhere! Recently these advertising hoardings came down and the station once again…
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