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Description: | This is the platform tile motif at Euston Underground station on the Victoria line. The tiles show the Euston Arch. The Victoria line was built in 1968-71 and connected three of the major London Underground stations: King's Cross St Pancras, Oxford Circus, and Victoria.
The Euston Arch was built in the Victorian period and stood 70 feet (21.3 metres) high at the entrance to Euston station, until British Rail demolished it in 1962. Local conservation groups headed by the then poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, fought in vain to save the arch. Its destruction spurred the conservation movement, which until then had had little support, since modernism was in vogue. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1969 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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