Monday, 3 February 2014

29. Oval


Saturday 1st February 3.30pm

The first thing that strikes me about this is the frame around the blue bit across the centre - it's made of wood and looks like the stuff you make picture frames from. It's basically what your Dad would do if you wanted him to make something and he didn't have the stuff to do it properly. But it wasn't just this one roundel, and it wasn't just this station - it was the same at the previous stop (Kennington, where I only changed trains so it doesn't get a mention on here yet).

It also has - like Bank - the shortest name of any Tube station, although it took me an evening if absent-minded wondering to work out if that was true or not, with both Bow and Kew turning out to be abbreviations of their proper names.

In the ticket office the tiling has a cricket theme, with white figures against an oval-shaped green background doing something cricket-y. If they'd have been remotely kitsch I'd have taken a picture, but alas, just like cricket, they were a bit dull.

Wikipedia entry here.

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