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Description: | A bronze framed miniature roundel nameplate originally on a ticket hall "passimeter" at Bethnal Green Underground station, 1946.
Small single sheet nameplate roundel, fully lined out, "BETHNAL GREEN" on blue bar with bronze finished frame.
Bethnal Green
Passimeter roundel
Detail of roundel.
System - Design
Tube
TfL
A bronze-framed Underground station sign in the shape of the Underground roundel symbol reading 'Bethnal Green'
A bronze framed miniature roundel name plate from a ticket hall kiosk at Bethnal Green station
Transport
1940s
This miniature roundel nameplate was originally on a ticket hall passimeter at Bethnal Green Underground station. A passimeter was ticket booth where incoming passengers could either buy tickets or have them checked by the duty clerk.
Bethnal Green station did not open until 1946, although it had been completed before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war the station was used as an air-raid shelter. On 3 March 1943, 173 people were killed as they sought shelter there.
Tower Hamlets
Second World War
Underground Stations
enamel, green, roundel
1 | Publisher: | http://www.ltmcollection.org/ | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | ltmcollection.org/1994/1207 | Go to resource |
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