Research Catalog

Title

Hidden London : discovering the forgotten underground / Chris Nix, Siddy Holloway and David Bownes with Sam Mullins.

Author

Nix, Chris,

Publication

• New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ; London : London Transport Museum, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bownes, David,
• Holloway, Siddy,
• London Transport Museum, issuing body.
• Mullins, Sam,

Description

231 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

An exploration of the abandoned tributaries of London's vast and vital transportation network through breathtaking images and unexpected stories. 'Hidden London' is a lavishly illustrated history of disused and repurposed London Underground spaces. It provides the first narrative of a previously secret and barely understood aspect of London's history. Behind locked doors and lost entrances lies a secret world of abandoned stations, redundant passageways, empty elevator shafts, and cavernous ventilation ducts. The Tube is an ever-expanding network that has left in its wake hidden places and spaces. "Hidden London" opens up the lost worlds of London's Underground and offers a fascinating analysis of why Underground spaces--including the deep-level shelter at Clapham South, the closed Aldwych station, the lost tunnels of Euston--have fallen into disuse and how they have been repurposed. With access to previously unseen archives, architectural drawings, and images, the authors create an authoritative account of London's hidden Underground story. This surprising and at times myth-breaking narrative interweaves spectacular, newly commissioned photography of disused stations and Underground structures today.

Subjects

• Subways
• Subway stations
• London > Underground > Motiv
• Fotografie
• England > London
• Pictorial works
• History
• London (England) > Buildings, structures, etc > Pictorial works
• Subways > England > London > History > Pictorial works
• Subway stations > England > London > History > Pictorial works
• Buildings

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- King William Street : the first disused tube station -- Piccadilly Circus : a new heart for London -- Down Street : the safest place in London -- 55 Broadway : a cathedral of modernity -- Clapham South : deep-level shelter beneath the common -- North End : unopened station and secret bunker -- Ongar & Quainton Road : from underground outposts to heritage railways -- Highgate High-level : change for the Northern Heights -- The Strand : how Hollywood came to the underground -- Euston : gateway to the north.

ISBN

• 9780300245790
• 0300245793

LCCN

2019939618

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries