1959 vintage "Daily Mail Ideal Home exhibition" poster found at Notting Hill Gate tube station, 2010
Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 - 1959 when the station's lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway and will be safe.
This is a poster advertising the still popular Ideal Home Exhibition, sponsored by the Daily Mail, that was held at Olympia in March of that year. The poster is signed 'Hanna' and this is, I'm sure John Hanna (1919 - 1992), the Australian designer who lived and worked in the UK between 1947 and 1961. Starting with S H Benson's he went freelance in 1951.
We will be leaving these intact - and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible - which is why they've probably survived 50 odd years!
The photos were taken officially - please do credit London Underground in any links.
1959 vintage "Daily Mail Ideal Home exhibition" poster found at Notting Hill Gate tube station, 2010
Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 - 1959 when the station's lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway and will be safe.
This is a poster advertising the still popular Ideal Home Exhibition, sponsored by the Daily Mail, that was held at Olympia in March of that year. The poster is signed 'Hanna' and this is, I'm sure John Hanna (1919 - 1992), the Australian designer who lived and worked in the UK between 1947 and 1961. Starting with S H Benson's he went freelance in 1951.
We will be leaving these intact - and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible - which is why they've probably survived 50 odd years!
The photos were taken officially - please do credit London Underground in any links.