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Description: | Gillespie Road Underground station is now known as Arsenal. This is the first station building and was designed in the Arts & Crafts classical style by Leslie Green. Built in 1906 in a terraced street, it is covered in the red oxblood faience blocks that distinguish his stations. It was on the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (now known as the Piccadilly line).
The station's original facade was reconstructed shortly after the name changed to Arsenal in 1932 because of the station's proximity to Woolwich Arsenal football ground, which opened in 1913.
The Arsenal name comes from the fact that the team originally played at the Woolwich Arsenal site in southeast London. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 1907 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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