London underground posters - yey or neigh?

Thumbs up from me! I love stuff like that (even tho I work on trains!!)

We have some retro travel posters in our middle room that I cut out of a calander I love them

Love them! I'm well into that sort of stuff.

Ooh I like these! We had a bit of a 'Tube' theme at our evening reception... tables named after Tube stops and place cards looked like this:

so maybe we should invest!

Ooh I'm glad it seems unanimous! Really like the designer of the map one.

Ideally I'd also like road signs of places important to up our staircase, but maybe I'm getting carried away!

Thanks everyone for yuor input!

Saisi I think you're a bit of a local girl aren't you, to me? You got married in teddington? I like in surbiton now but moved from battersea and got marreid in westminster!

nepatīk

Come again?

Latvian for I don't like......

Only because I hate the tube and the daily commute makes my blood boil so the thought of having to come home to tube related art is likely to push me over the edge. ?

haha fair enough.

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I love it when the tube stops at the really old stations with the signs like the above it makes me wonder what it would have been like to take the new fangled tube when it first opened.

Also love it on the odd occasion when I've caught a glimpse of a ghost station.

Some good wall art is by a guy called Douglas Rose. He reworked the tube map to include all stations that ever existed and lines that are no more(did you know that you could once go from Windsor to Southend on the "underground)?"

Ghost stations are by bag.....I am not a trainspotter though.....more a history enthusiast.....

Peter

Definitely cool!

Really like it for the same reasons!

I love ghost station as well! Actually I love all 'ghost' things - old factories/buildings etc Things that have been abandoned by humans and gradually re-claimed by nature...

In a similar vein I can really recommend this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Underground-London-Travels-Beneath-Streets/dp/0349115656/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360069846&sr=1-1

I really like the style of them and like Kjay we have some 1930 travel ones.

i found this on a market in France. we had our honeymoon in Cuba and our hotel in Havana had a veranda just like this so I couldnt resist!

plus we got somepost card when me were in Monaco and Chamany like this that i still havent managed to get frames for!!

I love the idea! I may have to steal the idea when we buy a house...

I haven't seen a ghost station for ages. I used to go through the one near Swiss Cottage all the time.

Jack Straws Castle is a true ghost station....One that was built at platform level although never opened as a station!!!!!

Try this link and scroll down......

http://www.abandoned-stations.org.uk/

Thanks for this -Marlborough Road is the one l am thinking of! Where is Jack's Straws Castle station? Between Golders Green and Hampstead on the Northern line l assume?

If you are interested in abandoned things then urban exploring forums are really interesting. 28days later is a good one.

my dad is on one of those urban exploring ones! it is pretty interesting where they get themselves!

Mrs Bass I love your posters!

My H is really into the idea of urban exploring, but we saw a horror film revolving around it recently which totally put me off the idea!!

Thanks Kjay!!

Ex and his friends are on that one so I avoid it now☹️

What was the film? Will show oh and try and scare him off!

pitta, am a total lurker on them. Have never posted, just fascinated by the pics. You say 'now' did you used to go on them?

Ages ago yeah, Ex and his friends did various places. But he got into a lot of places because os his job so it was more infiltration than UE. He liked underground stuff, I like the old uildings mainly because I think of all the things that could be doen with them yet they are being allowed to decay☹️

On the subject of abandoned places, this one was quite atmospheric.

Where is that?

Its called Urban Explorer!! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1642665/

It's set in Berlin.

Apparently there are a few places here in Bristol that he has read up abotu and really wants to do it! no way Jose!

If you pm me your email, I can give you the info....(I can't PM you)