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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

Growth of the submarine by G. H. Davis

The growth of the submarine from 1901 to 1912. In chronological order, they are: 1901-2 Holland Class, 1903-5 A Class, 1904-6 B Class, 1906-9 C Class, 1911 D Class and 1912 E Class. The latter is in silhouette, as the details cannot be published'.
1912

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Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea, London

The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) Power House (Lots Road Power Station), Chelsea, London. Built to power the newly created Piccadilly underground line (formerly known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR)), which ran originally from Hammersmith to Finsbury Park). Now being re-developed into flats and retail units. Date: circa 1908

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection