Friday 11th December 5.15pm
That horrid wooden framing around the name really grates on me and yet it keeps turning up in so many different stations south of the river! At some point I'm going to buy some wood and make a copy of it just to prove how home-made it looks!
Elsewhere in the station there's still some old signs:
I'm guessing at some point the colour of the Northern line was brown rather than black, or perhaps they just weren't bothered about these things?
Wikipedia entry here.
108 station means I've now covered 40% of the Tube stations. This is what that looks like on a map coloured in with a cheap highlighting pen:
As with all of these milestones it's simultaneously brilliant but also makes me realise how much is left to do - it's taken three years to get this far, and that's just the easy (central) bits!
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