Metro Gallery

Platform of Notting Hill Gate Underground Station

Central Line series. A variety of passengers awaiting their train on the platform at Bank - Two jolly gents (with round faces and round bellies!), a pretty elegant rich lady seated on a bench, a slightly-shifty-looking chap reading a small paper or pamphlet and a stern matronly woman in full-length thick overcoat holding a red umbrella. Date: 1904

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

METROLAND MAP

A map of Metro-Land, the residential area in London's northwest hinterland, served by London's Underground though in these parts most of it runs over ground. Date: 1926

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1926, Area, Communities, Community, Ground, Hinterland, Historical, History, Land, London, Londons, Map, Metro, Metroland, Northwest, Parts, Planning, Residential, Runs, Served, Town, Towns, Underground

London Life - A Shoeblack works outside a Station Entrance on The City and South London Railway (C&SLR), the tunnels and lines of which now form the Bank Branch of the Northern line, Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1910s, Bank, Branch, City, Entrance, Form, Life, Line, Lines, London, Metro, Northern, Outside, Pavement, Railway, Shining, Shoe, Shoeblack, Shoes, Signs, Slr, South, Station, Street, Tube, Tunnels, Underground, Works