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...insists on be-cladding themselves with:
Yayoi Kusama - that is a she, f y i, and very trendy.
Case in point: Louis Vuitton / Y S L**
57 & 5th Avenue
** pronounced in Oklahoma City as "W(h)y-sol" (rhymes with Lysol) == Honest, I actually heard this in my god-forsaken hometown ca. 1970; they thought this to be ultra-sophisticated on the prairie wastelands....oh yes, Y S L = Yves St Laurent for the uninitiated.
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Photography: Terrence Smith Photography
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station (Bakerloo and Piccadilly Lines), 12 April 2025.
It was opened in March 1906 by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR), commonly known as the Bakerloo, on its line from Baker Street to Lambeth North. Originally there was a surface building (housing the booking hall) designed by Leslie Green, Architect of the Underground Electric Railways of London (UERL), of which the BS&WR was a constituent. The station fronted Piccadilly itself. It was of modest scale with just a single bay. The upper frieze contained the words ‘Baker Street and Waterloo Railway’ and the lower frieze ‘Station Piccadilly Circus Station’.
The BS&WR was soon followed by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), commonly known as the Piccadilly, which opened its platforms here in December 1906 on its line from Finsbury Park to Hammersmith. At the same time two frontages by Leslie Green were built separated by other buildings from the Bakerloo building but linked to its booking hall. One was of four bays on Jermyn Street and had the words ‘Bakerloo and Piccadilly Tube Railway’ on its lower frieze. The upper frieze was blank. The other entrance fronted The Haymarket and was of three bays with the letters ‘Piccadilly Circus Station’ on the lower frieze. Subsequently the Haymarket Hotel was built above all three stations.
By 1907 the ever-increasing number of passengers using the station had rendered it inadequate but it was not until 1925-28 that a new large sub-surface booking office and circulating area was built, opening in December 1928. This replaced the booking hall in Green’s surface building although this remained open until July 1930 and even after that its three entrances remained open until 1990 when it (and the Haymarket Hotel and adjacent buildings) were demolished to make way for redevelopment.
The new station was built in Neo-Classical and Art Deco style by the UERL’s consultant architect Charles Holden assisted by the UERL’s Chief Architect Stanley Heaps and engineer Sir Harley Hugh Dalrymple-Hay. Only the finest materials were used. Cream Travertine marble clad the walls and the pillars were faced with red scagliola. Signage lettering was cream Johnson Sans on brushed dark bronze.
Pictured is Holden's 1928 elliptical sub-surface booking hall.
The offside rear door cladding has come adrift from the door, and whenever the front rear is opens a collision of plastic occurs!
Luckily there is YouTube video showing how to remove the trim and re-fit. Very useful.
I needed to purchase a rubber wheel specifically for removing the remnants of the very strong self-adhesive foam tape.
New lower clips were fitted (the originals broke) along with new automotive grade self-adhesive foam tape.
Presses into place and held for a short time with clamps. All complete and has stayed in place since.