Heathrow Central tube station mural by Tom Eckersley : original 1977 panel on display at the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh : 2017
When the Piccadilly line of London Underground was extended to the city's main airport at Heathrow on 16 December 1977 the platform design included the splendid mural panels by Tom Eckersley. They show the tail fin of Concorde, the joint Anglo-French aircraft operated by British Airways and Air France. They continued the tradition of platform artwork or symbols that was seen most obviously on the Victoria line from the late 1960s.
In c.2012 the station, then renamed as Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 & 3, was extensively refurbished and it became obvious to those of us involved in the scheme, that the existing panels would not match the colours of the new platform tiling. The artwork was therefore, with Eckersley's executors agreement, amended to show the same design but in different colourways. The original panels were donated to various museums and collections that included the National Museums of Scotland. I took this photograph of an object that I had significant involvement with in 2017 when I visited Edinburgh and found the mural on display in the Chambers St. Museum.
Heathrow Central tube station mural by Tom Eckersley : original 1977 panel on display at the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh : 2017
When the Piccadilly line of London Underground was extended to the city's main airport at Heathrow on 16 December 1977 the platform design included the splendid mural panels by Tom Eckersley. They show the tail fin of Concorde, the joint Anglo-French aircraft operated by British Airways and Air France. They continued the tradition of platform artwork or symbols that was seen most obviously on the Victoria line from the late 1960s.
In c.2012 the station, then renamed as Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 & 3, was extensively refurbished and it became obvious to those of us involved in the scheme, that the existing panels would not match the colours of the new platform tiling. The artwork was therefore, with Eckersley's executors agreement, amended to show the same design but in different colourways. The original panels were donated to various museums and collections that included the National Museums of Scotland. I took this photograph of an object that I had significant involvement with in 2017 when I visited Edinburgh and found the mural on display in the Chambers St. Museum.