London Underground - Tottenham Court Road station - 1907 tiling in disused passageway
A rare little find during a site visit to Tottenham Court Road - in what was part of the lower lift landing passageways built by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and that opening in 1907 one of the 'manufacturer's tiles' that appeared very occassionally on each station. This has come to light as we've stripped years of paint off the tiles that has covered this tile up. It reads "W B Simpson & Sons, London WC" - Simpson's were the contractors who acted as 'fixers' and "Appt Agents Maw & Co.". Maw's were once arguably the world's largest producers of tiles and were based in Ironbridge in Shropshire. The company meregd into Johnston's of Stoke in 1968 but was re-established in 2001 and it now has a base back in Ironbridge.
London Underground - Tottenham Court Road station - 1907 tiling in disused passageway
A rare little find during a site visit to Tottenham Court Road - in what was part of the lower lift landing passageways built by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and that opening in 1907 one of the 'manufacturer's tiles' that appeared very occassionally on each station. This has come to light as we've stripped years of paint off the tiles that has covered this tile up. It reads "W B Simpson & Sons, London WC" - Simpson's were the contractors who acted as 'fixers' and "Appt Agents Maw & Co.". Maw's were once arguably the world's largest producers of tiles and were based in Ironbridge in Shropshire. The company meregd into Johnston's of Stoke in 1968 but was re-established in 2001 and it now has a base back in Ironbridge.