maybe.. though judging by all the horrible quesy inspid pastel panels on almost every new school and block of yuppy flats, MAYBE 'they', those who design for us, like those colours! :-O
The new cream-coloured tiles on the Victoria Line
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It's grim up north (London)
Oakwood and Southgate are Grade II listed buildings (as are Cockfosters and Arnos Grove, FWIW).
As far as I'm aware neither Wood Green or Bounds Green is (Turnpike Lane may be, however).
PacificOcean
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Oakwood doesn't have any tiles to fall off tbf. It's above ground (well cut and cover, but you know what I mean). Hate the station building though.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Not completely sure, but having gone through Brixton tonight after the crowds, I think the shade of green is meant to be the same as the background to the Hans Unger "Ton of Bricks" Brixton "motif".
Source: Diamond geezer's image on flickr
Can an urbanite "working in the creative industries" and in possession of a Pantone chart please go and confirm whether TfL have got an acceptable match
And are the colours at any of the other stations similarly meant to match the background of their original 1960s/early 1970s Victoria Line motifs.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Ah, I'd forgotten we'd gone into it in detail before.
teuchter
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Looking at it again, I am now additionally troubled by the positions of the vertical joints between bricks because they seem to be slightly offset from the centre of the bricks above and below.
I must remember to take my ruler and set-square with me in the morning to check.
I must remember to take my ruler and set-square with me in the morning to check.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
And another thing: above the "middle" course, the horizontal faces are red and the vertical faces are darker red, as if the light is from above.
But below the "middle" course, all the visible faces are vertical, but in alternating bright and dark red. How terribly illogical.
Alternatively the bright red ones are in fact horizontal faces but the bricks are all cut at crazy angles.
But below the "middle" course, all the visible faces are vertical, but in alternating bright and dark red. How terribly illogical.
Alternatively the bright red ones are in fact horizontal faces but the bricks are all cut at crazy angles.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It was only quite recently that I realised that the Stockwell motif contains a swan. Even though I spent five years using that tube station twice a day.
Minnie_the_Minx
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PacificOcean
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What has a swan got to do with Stockwell (apart from the pub)?
I thought it meant a place for cattle to drink?
I know Shadwell means "Well of Shadows" because the well was poisonous.
I thought it meant a place for cattle to drink?
I know Shadwell means "Well of Shadows" because the well was poisonous.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
And Stockwell or stokewell supposedly means "well by the stump or wood".
But only a minority of the Victoria Line motifs are based on the meaning of the placename.
There has been a roadside pub called "The Swan" at Stockwell for some 300 years. It has variously been used for tea smuggling, "select whist parties" and IRA recruitment.
Local History page on Stockwell partnership.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Just to bump the thread, the restored Victoria Line tiles at Oxford Circus are nifty:-
Best photo I could find online: the plain tiles are square and in the Sixties grid arrangement, but white instead of grey. It brightens up the Vic platforms and fits in with the old school staggered tiles over on the Central Line. Not bad at all.
Best photo I could find online: the plain tiles are square and in the Sixties grid arrangement, but white instead of grey. It brightens up the Vic platforms and fits in with the old school staggered tiles over on the Central Line. Not bad at all.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Just to bump the thread, the restored Victoria Line tiles at Oxford Circus are nifty:-
Best photo I could find online: the plain tiles are square and in the Sixties grid arrangement, but white instead of grey. It brightens up the Vic platforms and fits in with the old school staggered tiles over on the Central Line. Not bad at all.
I don't recall seeing that motif before.
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Just to bump the thread, the restored Victoria Line tiles at Oxford Circus are nifty:-
Best photo I could find online: the plain tiles are square and in the Sixties grid arrangement, but white instead of grey. It brightens up the Vic platforms and fits in with the old school staggered tiles over on the Central Line. Not bad at all.
I think they should be diagonal to reflect the new crossing
teuchter
je suis teuchter
This statement has caused my logic circuits to overheat.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
You've not seen the swans at Stockwell?
I don't recall ever noticing them. I'm very self-absorbed you know, when I'm not busy thinking of ways to make teuchter's logic circuits overheat.
To me the dots on the right are an orangey red and the ones on the left a reddy brown. The vertical line of dots look a Victoria Line blue.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I can remember it from childhood visits to London.
The original motif tiles were covered over with the "snakes and ladders" image on enamelled panels following the refurbishment of the Victoria and Bakerloo line platforms after the Oxford Circus fire of November 1984.
I've never understood what the link between Oxford Circus and snakes and ladders was supposed to be, although I've empathised with the everyman characters on the background escalators of the image.
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