"Around the World in Eighty Days", movie film poster from 1956 as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, 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.
This poster is for the 1956 film "Around the World in 80 Days", then in its "second year" and it was showing at the Astoria Theatre in Charing Cross Road - a venue just demolished for the Crossrail extension to Tottenham Court Road station.
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.
"Around the World in Eighty Days", movie film poster from 1956 as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, 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.
This poster is for the 1956 film "Around the World in 80 Days", then in its "second year" and it was showing at the Astoria Theatre in Charing Cross Road - a venue just demolished for the Crossrail extension to Tottenham Court Road station.
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.