Tube Collection (page 6)

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). Measuring the air pressure. Colo
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Measuring the air pressure. Colored engraving

Roman city of Ampurias. Water filters. Girona province. Catalonia. Spain

Poster advertising Nubian sun cream
Poster by Atelier Pokorny Hofbauer (Czech) advertising Nubian sun cream. Date: circa 1930

Famous Diva and accompanist noticed - Oxford Circus Station
A Famous highbrow Diva (and snooty accompanist) standing on Oxford Circus Underground Station, London - spotted by a couple (and their wailing infant) on the station

Woman police officer on a busy London street
Woman police officer (Alison Blair) on a busy London street, talking to a man near the entrance to an underground station. She is wearing the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Building Escalators
Men at work on the construction of escalators at Tottenham Court Road underground (tube) Station, central London. Date: 1930s

Ticket Barriers 1960S
The interior of a London underground (tube) station, showing a businessman using going through the ticket barriers leading to the Victoria Line. Date: 1960s

London Tube Station
Passengers queueing for tickets at an London Underground tube station leading to the Victoria Line. Note the old ticket vending machines in old money! Date: 1960s

Neon Tube Oscillator
A Neon Tube Rhythmic Oscillator, an ingenious instrument to enable testing of telephonic equipment to be carried out direct from the telephone exchange. Date: March 1933

Colgate Dental Cream / Adv
An advertisement for Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream - for strength and happiness...good to taste and good for the teeth. Date: 1919

Carriage Interior
The interior of a carriage of the Central London Railway, known as The Twopenny Tube because you can travel to any station for two pence. Date: circa 1890

Underground construction work, Westminster, London 1867
Underground railway construction work at Westminster, Central London, 1867 Date: 1867

Oxford Circus underground station, Central London
Oxford Circus underground station (twopenny tube), Central London. Date: circa 1905

Marylebone Road with underground station, London. Date: circa 1905

Aerial view, Golders Green and Station, NW London. Date: circa 1910s

Passengers at Oxford Circus tube station, Central London
Passengers queueing for twopenny tickets at Oxford Circus tube station booking office, Central London. Date: circa 1900s

Scientist at work in laboratory(Eugene Turpin)
Eugene Turpin (1848 - 1927), French scientist and inventor of melinite, a form of gas warfare

Center Platform Downtown Subway - Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Center Platform Downtown Subway (3500ft long) - Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: 1950s

Baker Street Station, Marylebone Road, London, before Chiltern Court was built. circa 1927

Poster, British Industries Fair, White City, London, 18 February to 1 March. Date: circa 1930s

Platform of Bank Underground Station
Central Line series. A variety of passengers awaiting their train on the platform at Bank - two cheeky children, a battleaxe Grandmother-figure, a glamorous lady in red and white ensemble

Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
View of Dover Street, Piccadilly, London, including Dover Street tube station (right) which was later renamed Green Park. circa 1920

Tube-eye or threadtail, Stylephorus chordatus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Thick-flowered slender-tube, Leptosiphon densiflorus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Sydenham Edwards The Botanical Register, London, Ridgway, 1834

Tube Station, Shepherds Bush, London
Electric Tram & Underground Railway/Tube Station, Shepherds Bush, County of London, England. Date: 1906

Underground Railway, British Museum Tube Station, Holborn, County of London, England. Showing the British Museum Platform. Date: 1913

Piccadilly Circus Tube Station, Piccadilly, London, County of London, England. London Underground - Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Electric Railway Date: 1910s

WW2 Christmas card, Keep Going... for a Happy Christmas. The message inside reads: A message of cheer this Christmastide / To help to KEEP GOING along the steps / That lead towards a just

Boy playing with junk, Balham, SW London
A little boy playing on a pile of junk in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Recognised!, by Bairnsfather et al
Recognised! " What the ell are they laughing at?" They have recognised him, and he has recognised that they have recognised him

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill by Bruce Bairnsfather
Masthead of The Bystander magazine featuring characters on a London tube train (or bus?) drawn by some of the magazines most regular artistic contributors

Suffragette Flora Drummond Stanhope Toy
A Stanhope or optical toy, a device which allows the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope. The stanhope was invented in 1857 by Rene Dagron, a French photographer

Boy scouts in swimming race, British Honduras
Boy scouts in a swimming race, wearing lifebelts, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Suffragette Toy Votes for Women. A suffragette with votes for women flag is pushed along by a policeman in this ingenious mechanical toy

Present Day Types - the Straphanger by Arthur Watts
A gentleman in a top hat and smoking a pipe tries to keep his balance on a London Underground train by hanging onto one of the overhead straps whille holding his umbrella

Firefighter in new breathing apparatus helmet
LFB firefighter in a new breathing apparatus helmet (side view), 14 December 1956. The helmet is put on last and secured over the neck band and goggles

Woman railway officials on the Underground, WW1
Two women in uniform working on the London Underground during the First World War in jobs which were previously carried out by men. Date: 1914-1918

London Underground Station Indicator
A new invention on the Underground Railway in London. After a train leaves a station, a bell rings and the name of the next station appears, keeping passengers informed of their location. Date: 1896

Six-inch piping, Kingsway tunnel, Central London
Six-inch piping (outlets to dams) outside the Kingsway tunnel, Central London

Firefighters and police in London Underground
Firefighters and police in the London Underground during an incident on 28 February 1975. An underground train had failed to stop at Moorgate station

Opening of the tube line between Holborn and Euston
The pneumatic despatch tube: the Holborn end of the tube on the opening day of the line between Euston Square and Holborn. Date: 1865

Bonzo Wants His Money Back by George Studdy
Bonzo Wants His Money Back. Travelling in the underground at rush hour, hemmed in by peoples feet and umbrellas, is definitely not worth the cost of a ticket! 1923

How the busiest junction in England is worked: electrical devices which protect the passenger from danger on the District Railway. Showing the newly completed Earls Court underground station, London

Manufacture of Dunlop tyres, 1896: inflating the tubes
Manufacture of cycling accessories: women inflate the tubes of Dunlop tyres. Date: 1896

Military radar in wartime by G. H. Davis
Military radar: how this vital secret weapon helped the Allied land forces to achieve final victory during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Purification of water, Western Front, France, WW1
The purification of water by British troops on the Western Front in France during World War One. Poisons were removed and the water was sterilised

New Tube Railway for Mail by G H Davis
A diagram giving the details of the post office tube between Paddington and Whitechapel, built at the time at a cost of 1, 500, 000

Football supporters on a London street
Three football supporters on a London street, wearing checked caps and rosettes and holding rattles

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