A plug for the William Morris Gallery Museum at Lloyd Park, some 10-15 minutes walk north from Walthamstow Central station, which makes a delightful and interesting place to visit for those that like pretty art and design stuff. The gift shop has some of the most beautiful and affordable gift wrapping paper on the planet - so nice, you'll want to frame it!
Great idea! I'm going to be in London for the day on Wednesday (just one of my monthly day trips)... I always take in an exhibition or gallery in general. So I think that's sorted then!
I'll have to have a look, next time I'm up there, I've always found the William Morris design motif one of the most attractive on the line (not demeaning any of the others, Brixton (despite the terrible pun, Highbury and Seven Sisters are also very nice, IMHO). The northbound Northern Line (Bank Branch) at Euston, constructed at around the same time as the Victoria Line, replacing one half of the former island platform there, is of identical design to the Victoria Line platforms there, and the seat recesses also contain the "Doric Arch" murals.
The William Morris inspired items in the gift shop may be affordable, but despite him being a socialist, Morris's hand printed textiles, hand woven fabrics etc were made for a very exclusive market and unaffordable by average people at the time.
I remember the Victoria Line opening in 1967, and although the architecture may now seem plain and utilitarian at the time it seemed clean modern and new. In 1967 the Northern Line which was my 'home' line was running with 1938 stock, which was already 30 years old, and you would still encounter standard stock trailers dating from the 1920s on the Bakerloo line. By comparison the Victoria Line was a different world.
@@josephkarl2061 and I'll raise you....LeviNZ.,, The passageway tiling at Wellington Grand Central would benefit from..something ,,but the grand atrium makes up for it. Jago hasn't seen Dunedin station yet.........
It's interesting that the murals at Green Park and Oxford Circus stations were changed, but the original designs have since been reinstated. At Green Park, with the opening of the Jubilee Line, it was decided to replace the "bird's-eye view of trees" with a display of leaves similar to what still remains in the tiling on the Jubilee Line platforms. At Oxford Circus, after the disastrous fire on the Northbound Victoria Line platform at the end of 1984, the entire array of tiles was removed and replaced by panelling, incorporating the "snakes and lasders" motives then recently acquired by the Central Line platforms. The southbound Victoria Line platform, although unaffected by the fire, also received the "snakes and ladders" design. Since then in about 2007, the replacement motifs at both stations have been removed, and retiling of the platforms has seen the original motifs restored, though in the case of Oxford Circus, only on the southbound platform, as the northbound retains its metallic panels and is therefore unsuitable for tiling. Extra copies of the (original design) Oxford Circus motif appear elsewhere in the station however, such as in the booking hall, the only Victoria Line station where the station's motifs are to be found at locations other than on the platforms.
In the early days of the line LT produced a poster featuring the designs at all of the stations from Walthamstow Central to Victoria, this was before the extension to Brixton was completed. At Walthamstow Central there is now a small display relating to the history of the line, to the left as you reach the top of the escalators; a reproduction of the poster can be seen there.
I remember being on the Victoria Line at the age of ten in 1971, wearing a bright pink check coat and black knee length boots. Another world. My family were on the way to the Tate Gallery. ❤️ I always thought Warren Street sounded like an actor's name. 😁 Maybe someone should stage a fake duel at Finsbury Park. 😁
I am loving all the tile tableaux; each one is stunning 🤩 and a joy to watch as a travelling galery. For some reason the ‘Black Horse Street’ one really stays with me. I think it is absolutely beautiful & elegant 😍. Thank you, Jago, for taking us along. Sending you warm greetings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Your video presenting style is engaging and interesting, even for someone such as myself with a more base level fringe amount of train knowledge. Hope that people with cash and connections notice this
Dear Jago. I wanted to let you know that in Mexico we have the same way of representing each station with a unique iconography, except that is on every single stop on every single line and accompanies the name of the station! Take a look at the work of Lance Wyman for the Mexico metro if you want to see our designs, which in the firsts lines are just gorgeous and represents either something related to the name of the station or something remarkable in the area, just like in the Victoria line! Also I find hilarious that we often see the same silhouette on stations named after a person just like in Victoria, and I also found them a little less clever than the rest. It’s really worth taking a look. Thank you as always for all your brilliant videos !
Great to see this, I have always liked the Victoria Line tiles and asked for a video on this some time ago. Was surprised that a colleague who uses the line every day had never noticed them, though they are quite circumspect and some stand out more than others. The line itself of course is extremely useful, helped by the longish spacings between stations and all being interchanges (except Pimlico), even though that limited the surface buildings - not necessarily a bad thing given the architecture of that period.
I was working in the West End when the Victoria Line opened. I think most people enjoyed the little jests associated with this (to us) futuristic line. Incidentally, there are endless videos about the crossed pistols/Finsbury Park motif. I think there is a strong argument for saying that there were duels where Finsbury Park now is. So, perhaps we can cut the artist some slack on this.
Thank you Jago. I remember at the time reading that the stations were pretty basic. Misha Black also had a hand in the design of the original Victoria Line stock which along with the 72 were/are some of the most elegant tube trains designed.
@@highpath4776 I always thought the Victoria line trains, the Glasgow Blue trains and some contemporary buses with wrap-round windows looked strikingly modern and smart, but I believe they were awkward and expensive to replace and keep watertight, hence the reversion to more angular traditional forms. Even the Airfix model of a Park Royal railbus was a bit fiddly to put together.
@@iankemp1131 Got Two Airfix (or is one Dapol) on the go). Maybe I never found the attempt at 'Modern' design impressive, even in the 1960s/70s , somehow preferring the pine floor slats to the vinyls , padded arm rests to the plastic ones, and the square grey tiling while not reminding me of a public loo as the northern line tile size could do, again did not have Frank Pick's idea of pleasing functionality. Maybe my Brain is stuck in a mix of the 1930s and 1950s ?
I hate travelling on the underground but have always liked the different styles of tiling at the stations. Pity at Warren Street they didn't add some rabbits Happy Easter Jago and everyone who reads this
"Rabbits" : A term no longer used by bus staff in London for a passenger (a term no longer used by transport management, now customer !! ) who only rides a short distance. This term specifically was only applied when there were many passengers/customers (please yourself!!)riding a short distance. i.e.one or two passengers riding a short distance didn't constitute rabbits.
This was a absolute brilliant Vlog Jago the Victoria Line is one of my favourite tube lines because of the amazing tile design representing each station and surrounding area of that station it very clever how each stations tiles have been done until your next Vlog keep up the good work my friend take care and stay safe and enjoy your Easter
I'm currently working in Stockwell.....in fact under Stockwell Station, but that's a different story. I'd seen the tiles on the Victoria Line between Kings Cross and Stockwell, but only worked out half of them, thanks to this video I know all of them now. Thanks again for an excellent history lesson on the Underground.
Whenever I see the lengthy tiles along the platform at Charing Cross, Northern line, my heart leaps up: the Mediaeval figures labouring to build the Eleanor Cross. My bleary eyes on the first train south in the morning, watched this I had to change at the following station - Embankment.
Whilst the cameo of Queen Victoria at the eponymous station might be described as "uninspired", I think it's preferable to an image of a street which is what the two mainline stations were eventually named after.
All very interesting, and that's from someone who is a heathen when it comes to art and who virtually never uses the Victoria Line. It's typical of Mr H that he can take a topic that interests me not one jot and then fascinate me. Thank you, Mr H. Simon T
As someone who travelled on the Victoria line for many a year I was familiar with the murals, however I never had a need or want to travel past Victoria so until this video I was unaware of those in the southern portion. Something new discovered by watching this 😀
all of your videos are highly interesting, never a dull moment... :-) nevertheless, this one really stands out alongside the ones about the sultans of swing and you can't always get what you want... anyways, this video brings back very vivid memories of childhood... the victoria line was new when at 12 years i made my first trip from the suburbs up to london... the swinging 60's, i'll never forget the girls getting on and off the tube in their mini-skirts and not knowing which way to look... i'm sure if someone had taken a photo of me that day i would be blushing... LOL :-)
I always thought that "Tunabrix" was a character in "Asterix the Gaul". Another excellent video from Mr Jago Hazzard. Thank you for the continuing education on the things I didn't know I didn't know!
Well done. Many I knew, many I didn't. Given I have taken the Victoria Line 234584754511577474171715552528478995465 times and have become complacent, I shall endevour to look at the tiles more closely. Cheers
I remember the opening of The Victoria Line as 10 year old using the tube to explore London. My vivid impression was of bright modernity and the murals had a huge impression on me, artistically naive as I was. The modest scale of the stations does reveal limited finance, and I think the decor should be celebrated as an attempt to brighten a bit of the world in gloomy times. So, a bit like this channel then.
Interesting. As someone who has lived in London since birth and travelled quite regularly on the underground, I never knew anything about the murals despite having seen, walked past them and even stood by them while waiting for a train. TFL/LU should really include some sort of sign or placard next to the murals with some information about them. Otherwise people (like myself) just ignore it.
No, if you label the murals, tile styles etc, you will destroy the esthetic (feel). You would need labels on the outside of building (Leslie Green, tiles etc). What would the labels say? If everything is labelled, who would read it? If you (we) don't see (notice) tiles, you (we) won't see/read the labels. The website maybe a good place for some of this info, or maybe a You Tube channel ?😀 Maybe Jago could help?
Very interesting - I'm sure many people look at these tiled designs and wonder what they're all about. I had figured out Brixton (not difficult of course), but despite having used Stockwell a great deal in a former life I don't think I would ever have got the swan. I really like it now you've clarified. I also love the Blackhorse Rd black horse, though again it's a bit of an obvious one, but never mind.
@@highpath4776 It was a great music venue in ts day - last time I went past (3 years ago at least) it was all just tribute bands, including a Steps tribute band FFS. Steps *were* a tribute band!
Jago, many thanks for this. Your content never fails to pique my interest. I'd not really taken in the murals and artwork, let alone the meaning behind them, though I was familiar with the Seven Sisters (probably from one of your earlier videos! Us 153K subscribers are lucky to have you as part of our lives. ps, the mural at 7:00, brought to memory a similarly patterned gold wallpaper we had in at home in the 70's, probably purchased from Texas Homecare or the like!! pps. Yes pls, do a video on Tottenham Hale - you could go grab lunch at the Ferryboat Inn just up the road beside the aforementioned River Lea.
Excellent Jago, I love your channel 🚃 Hatton Cross has some Speedbird Aeronautical design tile work that I think are fantastic 😊. Keep up the great work 🙏
Wish I knew about these when I was down in London in March. Especially the Oxford Circus one as that's one of the stations I used. I would've looked out for it.
Perhaps we should make a small correction..... all LU stations feature a labyrinth, not a maze. Puzzling, but there is a huge difference you know; a labyrinth has a single continuous path which leads to the centre, whilst a maze has multiple paths which branch off and will not necessarily lead to the centre.
From those definitions I would say that LU stations feature a maze, from my experience they all have multiple paths which do not necessarily lead to the platform or exit that I want. 🙂
Wish I'd seen this before returning back home from a weekend darn sarf, indeed staying at Vauxhall, so could've seen a few of these arts on my travels.
I knew Julia Black 30-odd years ago. I had no idea that she'd done the Walthamstow tiles. But as a textile designer it's no surprise that she'd choose to reference William Morris.
I had no idea these murals existed, as I've never seen them before in any video. As soon as I saw the William Morris tiles I had an inkling it was themed around wallpaper, but you mentioned the fellow's name before I had time to recall it.
You misspoke when you mentioned Blackhorse Lane, which is of course a tram stop in Croydon. What you showed is Blackhorse Road. Sorry to be pernickety. Put it down to OCD
Another enjoyable video - I must confess that I am clearly unobservant as apart from the Victoria tiles at Victoria, I had never seen the others or even knew this was a “thing” on the line! 🤦♂️
The Blackhorse Road tiles by Hans Unger (about whom I am having problems with finding more info) is interesting as it looks like a paper cut out style horse which reminds me of Otl Aicher's work I saw an exhibition of his papercuts in Bielefeld about ten years ago - it was amazing. Aicher is most famous for his work on the Munich Olympics and the stylised sports logos and the fonts still used by the Olympics and also in a lot of International Airports. I wonder if Hans Unger was a colleague or a student of Aichers?
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists I found that Hans Unger who died in 1936 in Dresden but I thought he might not be commissioned by the Victoria line in the 1960s over thirty years AFTER his death.
Did you write this poem yourself? "is interesting as it looks like a paper cut out style horse" is a lovely line, worthy of Philip Larkin. Well done if so.
@@rodjones117 I wrote the comment in the style of the American Mathematician Lilian Lieber who in one of her books wrote: "This is not intended to be free verse. Writing each phrase on a separate line facilitates rapid reading, and everyone is in a hurry nowadays." I like her work and enjoyed her introduction to the General Theory of Relativity written in this style. If it reminds you of Larkin, thank you for the complement, but it was a pure fluke.
I used to work for a particular large organisation headquartered at Vauxhall Bridge, and caught the train there a lot--I always thought the flowery tiles were sort of naf, and looked like a weed garden.
If I remember correctly, which I often don't, Blackhorse Rd. Station was built on the site of a Micanite factory. As kids we were marched round it on a school trip. I think the point of the exercise was to demonstrate what was in store for us if we didn't shape up.... Ta Jago.
You mention the streets at King's Cross (the monument) were realigned to make way for St.Pancras. Do you happen to have details about how it looked beforehand?
I like the Pleasure Gardens reference at Vauxhall, but I'm wondering if they chose that rather than the locally relevant Griffin heraldry (also associated with the park) because they didn't want to be seen offering free advertising to the makers of the Viva? Mind you, I like Vivas...
and talking of tiles... is it Green Park, where there's a mosaic, that runs from the Victoria line to the Piccadilly line, that starts off predominantly light blue (Victoria) and then increments to dark blue (Piccadilly) and somewhere in between ? Mr Marshall will know, Secrets of the Victoria line or the Piccadilly line, I should have taken notes
I really can’t decide how I feel about he Vic Line stations. I often wonder if my view has been biased in the past because of its being intrinsically connected with so many happy memories of journeys with my dad to see the grandparents (to Walthamstow, then bus to Chingford) or to the south coast (To Victoria then by train or coach to Brighton, Hastings, etc), then a little later the numerous gigs I attended at Brixton Academy, plus all manner of of times since when I’ve had occasion to use it 🤔 I think in the 70s there was a splash of something different because if it’s unique tickets machines and because it really was a bit of a watershed in many respects. But as you say, the stations although largely functional do lack a bit “up top” so to speak, certainly when you consider the structures for its darker blue sister line, which was as likely to be selected as we often started from Finsbury Park Station. That said, the tiles were always something to look out for (Stockwell being my favourite, followed by the Black Horse and the Green Park abstract) and being odd, I always liked the illuminated Formica signs in the platforms. These gave the platforms a completeness in junior Tim’s eyes which made tube travel that bit different from ‘other railways’. 😄 I love how you always manage to eke out my memories and get me to revisit and reanalyse my childhood psyche 🧐 Cheers Jago 👍🍀🍻
Fascinating stuff, Mr Hazzard. Not sure I'm a fan of lots of grey tiles no matter how many shades they used. So a bit of colour is a good thing. Highbury has an Octagonal motif reminiscent of MG cars. But I cant find any connection that might suggest that as the origin of the design...unless its the Morris Gallery?
Grey is 'in' nowadays, although it gets called platinum to make it appear more expensive and thus cooler. See National Express West Midlands for the dismal nadir of grey masquerading as 'quality'. Grey buses in a conurbation which already suffers from too much 1960s/70s grey concrete.
@@atraindriver Indeed. Just been house hunting. Number of interiors that are grey, grey with slightly different grey on the bedspread was mind numbing. Ugh.
The octagon is just a coincidence I think. MG cars were made in Abingdon in Oxfordshire so no obvious connection to Highbury. Nor for the interesting octagonal towers at Ely, Acle, Fotheringay etc.
Finsbury Park: I remember that you did a video last year about duelling (gentlemen blowing each other's head off in a most civilised and dignified manner), and you mentioned that the duels were happening near the area, certainly not Finsbury Square near Old Street in the city. Unfortunately, I cannot include the link because TH-cam would delete the comments automatically and immediately.
And the hot air balloon mural at Finsbury Park Piccadilly Line is the same error. The balloons were launched from Finsbury Fields not Finsbury Park, which didn’t exist at the time.
Thank you everyone for the clarification and the information about the hot air balloons. Looks like there is still a lot of hot air about Finsbury Park.
I'd also say the crowns of the Kings Cross mural look a little like the frontage of King's Cross station too? Two arches with a small tower in the middle.
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A plug for the William Morris Gallery Museum at Lloyd Park, some 10-15 minutes walk north from Walthamstow Central station, which makes a delightful and interesting place to visit for those that like pretty art and design stuff. The gift shop has some of the most beautiful and affordable gift wrapping paper on the planet - so nice, you'll want to frame it!
Great idea! I'm going to be in London for the day on Wednesday (just one of my monthly day trips)... I always take in an exhibition or gallery in general. So I think that's sorted then!
I'll have to have a look, next time I'm up there, I've always found the William Morris design motif one of the most attractive on the line (not demeaning any of the others, Brixton (despite the terrible pun, Highbury and Seven Sisters are also very nice, IMHO). The northbound Northern Line (Bank Branch) at Euston, constructed at around the same time as the Victoria Line, replacing one half of the former island platform there, is of identical design to the Victoria Line platforms there, and the seat recesses also contain the "Doric Arch" murals.
@frglee ...also why I love this channel - for the brilliant and useful comments; WMG Museum's going on my 'to do' list. Thanks!
I don't understand why that wrapping paper exists when it's so beautiful
The William Morris inspired items in the gift shop may be affordable, but despite him being a socialist, Morris's hand printed textiles, hand woven fabrics etc were made for a very exclusive market and unaffordable by average people at the time.
Sometimes I think this is an architecture channel masquerading as a train channel..
Great video as always.
You're right - long may it be so imho.
I was in South-central LA on the subway and they said 'mind the cap'.
Oh dear - stupid joke. Someone's triggered.
He should do a crossover with Real Civil Engineering ;)
The more Things I Like that are covered in a channel, the better I like it. Trains...architecture...occasional bit of banter in Latin...
Which really it is since trains come paired with their infrastructure, and in turn. The architecture of said infra.
I remember the Victoria Line opening in 1967, and although the architecture may now seem plain and utilitarian at the time it seemed clean modern and new. In 1967 the Northern Line which was my 'home' line was running with 1938 stock, which was already 30 years old, and you would still encounter standard stock trailers dating from the 1920s on the Bakerloo line. By comparison the Victoria Line was a different world.
Not sure if I've ever mentioned just how much I enjoy your channel. You are fun and funny.
Excellent, as always.
Thank you. 😊
I enjoyed that mightily. I'll sign of in my natural Aussie accent: this has been a tile from the Tube. Thanks Jygo.
Yeah nah yeah, it was a beauty mate 👌 (From New Zealand 😆)
@@josephkarl2061 and I'll raise you....LeviNZ.,, The passageway tiling at Wellington Grand Central would benefit from..something ,,but the grand atrium makes up for it.
Jago hasn't seen Dunedin station yet.........
It's interesting that the murals at Green Park and Oxford Circus stations were changed, but the original designs have since been reinstated. At Green Park, with the opening of the Jubilee Line, it was decided to replace the "bird's-eye view of trees" with a display of leaves similar to what still remains in the tiling on the Jubilee Line platforms. At Oxford Circus, after the disastrous fire on the Northbound Victoria Line platform at the end of 1984, the entire array of tiles was removed and replaced by panelling, incorporating the "snakes and lasders" motives then recently acquired by the Central Line platforms. The southbound Victoria Line platform, although unaffected by the fire, also received the "snakes and ladders" design. Since then in about 2007, the replacement motifs at both stations have been removed, and retiling of the platforms has seen the original motifs restored, though in the case of Oxford Circus, only on the southbound platform, as the northbound retains its metallic panels and is therefore unsuitable for tiling. Extra copies of the (original design) Oxford Circus motif appear elsewhere in the station however, such as in the booking hall, the only Victoria Line station where the station's motifs are to be found at locations other than on the platforms.
I love that you cover this kind of public art. THANK YOU!
In the early days of the line LT produced a poster featuring the designs at all of the stations from Walthamstow Central to Victoria, this was before the extension to Brixton was completed. At Walthamstow Central there is now a small display relating to the history of the line, to the left as you reach the top of the escalators; a reproduction of the poster can be seen there.
I remember being on the Victoria Line at the age of ten in 1971, wearing a bright pink check coat and black knee length boots. Another world. My family were on the way to the Tate Gallery. ❤️
I always thought Warren Street sounded like an actor's name. 😁
Maybe someone should stage a fake duel at Finsbury Park. 😁
I am loving all the tile tableaux; each one is stunning 🤩 and a joy to watch as a travelling galery. For some reason the ‘Black Horse Street’ one really stays with me. I think it is absolutely beautiful & elegant 😍.
Thank you, Jago, for taking us along.
Sending you warm greetings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱
And I was even more struck with the striking new black horse outside, which I hadn't spotted before. One to watch for!
The swan is probably my favourite. It uses the medium (tiles) in a most creative way.
I always liked the "bricks-ton" pun!
Your video presenting style is engaging and interesting, even for someone such as myself with a more base level fringe amount of train knowledge. Hope that people with cash and connections notice this
Jago deserves far more subs, his content is consistently excellent.
Dear Jago. I wanted to let you know that in Mexico we have the same way of representing each station with a unique iconography, except that is on every single stop on every single line and accompanies the name of the station!
Take a look at the work of Lance Wyman for the Mexico metro if you want to see our designs, which in the firsts lines are just gorgeous and represents either something related to the name of the station or something remarkable in the area, just like in the Victoria line!
Also I find hilarious that we often see the same silhouette on stations named after a person just like in Victoria, and I also found them a little less clever than the rest.
It’s really worth taking a look.
Thank you as always for all your brilliant videos !
Great video and very pleased to see the result of your night on the tiles Jago
Nice touch having murals in the tube.. plus learning something new about the tube helps.!
Great to see this, I have always liked the Victoria Line tiles and asked for a video on this some time ago. Was surprised that a colleague who uses the line every day had never noticed them, though they are quite circumspect and some stand out more than others. The line itself of course is extremely useful, helped by the longish spacings between stations and all being interchanges (except Pimlico), even though that limited the surface buildings - not necessarily a bad thing given the architecture of that period.
The mural at Walthamstow Central is stunning. I'd use that design for inside my house. Gives a warm & cozy feeling.
Or you could go and sleep on the accompanying bench !!
@@simonwinter8839 I would if I were living in London!
@@ovig8917 For real !!
I was working in the West End when the Victoria Line opened. I think most people enjoyed the little jests associated with this (to us) futuristic line. Incidentally, there are endless videos about the crossed pistols/Finsbury Park motif. I think there is a strong argument for saying that there were duels where Finsbury Park now is. So, perhaps we can cut the artist some slack on this.
More likely to see people shooting each other around Finsbury Park nowadays - minus the chivalry !!
Thank you Jago. I remember at the time reading that the stations were pretty basic. Misha Black also had a hand in the design of the original Victoria Line stock which along with the 72 were/are some of the most elegant tube trains designed.
I never quite got to liking the Victoria or 72 stock, somehow I am stuck in the functionality of 1959
Misha black was also responsible for the styling of the Class 52 Diesel hydralics i believe.
@@highpath4776 I always thought the Victoria line trains, the Glasgow Blue trains and some contemporary buses with wrap-round windows looked strikingly modern and smart, but I believe they were awkward and expensive to replace and keep watertight, hence the reversion to more angular traditional forms. Even the Airfix model of a Park Royal railbus was a bit fiddly to put together.
@@iankemp1131 Got Two Airfix (or is one Dapol) on the go). Maybe I never found the attempt at 'Modern' design impressive, even in the 1960s/70s , somehow preferring the pine floor slats to the vinyls , padded arm rests to the plastic ones, and the square grey tiling while not reminding me of a public loo as the northern line tile size could do, again did not have Frank Pick's idea of pleasing functionality. Maybe my Brain is stuck in a mix of the 1930s and 1950s ?
I hate travelling on the underground but have always liked the different styles of tiling at the stations. Pity at Warren Street they didn't add some rabbits
Happy Easter Jago and everyone who reads this
"Rabbits" : A term no longer used by bus staff in London for a passenger (a term no longer used by transport management, now customer !! ) who only rides a short distance. This term specifically was only applied when there were many passengers/customers (please yourself!!)riding a short distance. i.e.one or two passengers riding a short distance didn't constitute rabbits.
@@simonwinter8839 you do realise that Rabbits was a pun for Warren Street= Rabbit Warren...
Don't you?
@@TitanicTARDIS Of course I do.I was merely stating a transport related alternative use for the word.
@@simonwinter8839 Was that because they would hop on and then hop off? "Hop on a bus" was an LT advertising slogan
@@henrybest4057 I think that it was because there were loads of them.
This was a absolute brilliant Vlog Jago the Victoria Line is one of my favourite tube lines because of the amazing tile design representing each station and surrounding area of that station it very clever how each stations tiles have been done until your next Vlog keep up the good work my friend take care and stay safe and enjoy your Easter
hi jago. again you brought some childhood memories when my elder brother worked with the tunneling crew in its earlier years of its construction.
I do like the comforting sound of the train during your end credits, its very soothing.
I think it's easy listening all the way
I remember taking the Victoria line from end to end on its opening weekend. I was 7.
Happy Easter Jago and everyone in the comment section 🐣
Happy Easter to you as well
I'm currently working in Stockwell.....in fact under Stockwell Station, but that's a different story. I'd seen the tiles on the Victoria Line between Kings Cross and Stockwell, but only worked out half of them, thanks to this video I know all of them now. Thanks again for an excellent history lesson on the Underground.
The content on this channel never disappoints. Thank you for doing all of the hard work that it takes to make so many wonderful videos.
from LeviNZ..again.... we are left glazed in admiration of your research.
Whenever I see the lengthy tiles along the platform at Charing Cross, Northern line, my heart leaps up: the Mediaeval figures labouring to build the Eleanor Cross. My bleary eyes on the first train south in the morning, watched this I had to change at the following station - Embankment.
I think they're great. My grandparents lived in Enfield so we regularly used the Victoria line. Thanks for making the video. :)
I think Jago misses the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, was probably there when the Balloon went up.
Whilst the cameo of Queen Victoria at the eponymous station might be described as "uninspired", I think it's preferable to an image of a street which is what the two mainline stations were eventually named after.
Intelligence, with, humanity, phenomenal knowledge of the subject, you must be in the top ten of world TH-camrs. Respect.
All very interesting, and that's from someone who is a heathen when it comes to art and who virtually never uses the Victoria Line. It's typical of Mr H that he can take a topic that interests me not one jot and then fascinate me. Thank you, Mr H. Simon T
Very enjoyable . I've frequently used this line to travel to meetings etc
As someone who travelled on the Victoria line for many a year I was familiar with the murals, however I never had a need or want to travel past Victoria so until this video I was unaware of those in the southern portion. Something new discovered by watching this 😀
Always interesting and informative.
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Oh, Happy Easter too!
all of your videos are highly interesting, never a dull moment... :-) nevertheless, this one really stands out alongside the ones about the sultans of swing and you can't always get what you want... anyways, this video brings back very vivid memories of childhood... the victoria line was new when at 12 years i made my first trip from the suburbs up to london... the swinging 60's, i'll never forget the girls getting on and off the tube in their mini-skirts and not knowing which way to look... i'm sure if someone had taken a photo of me that day i would be blushing... LOL :-)
Cheers for the video, spotted the Oxford Circus one one my trip down and wondered what the mural was about.
Videos on London ferries, ancient and modern might be a good idea
I love the simplicity of these puns. I’ve never thought about them before
I always thought that "Tunabrix" was a character in "Asterix the Gaul".
Another excellent video from Mr Jago Hazzard. Thank you for the continuing education on the things I didn't know I didn't know!
Well done. Many I knew, many I didn't. Given I have taken the Victoria Line 234584754511577474171715552528478995465 times and have become complacent, I shall endevour to look at the tiles more closely. Cheers
I think you exaggerate. Don't you remember those few days during the strike when you took the bus?
As well as the tiles at Stockwell Abram Games designed the original BBC TV ident, the "Bat-Wings" from 1953.
I used to have all of these as a set of postcards. Now you’ve made me wonder what happened to them!
Visiting London in a month, I can´t wait to see some of these!
I remember the opening of The Victoria Line as 10 year old using the tube to explore London. My vivid impression was of bright modernity and the murals had a huge impression on me, artistically naive as I was. The modest scale of the stations does reveal limited finance, and I think the decor should be celebrated as an attempt to brighten a bit of the world in gloomy times.
So, a bit like this channel then.
Interesting. As someone who has lived in London since birth and travelled quite regularly on the underground, I never knew anything about the murals despite having seen, walked past them and even stood by them while waiting for a train.
TFL/LU should really include some sort of sign or placard next to the murals with some information about them. Otherwise people (like myself) just ignore it.
No,
if you label the murals, tile styles etc, you will destroy the esthetic (feel).
You would need labels on the outside of building (Leslie Green, tiles etc).
What would the labels say?
If everything is labelled, who would read it?
If you (we) don't see (notice) tiles, you (we) won't see/read the labels.
The website maybe a good place for some of this info,
or maybe a You Tube channel ?😀 Maybe Jago could help?
Very interesting - I'm sure many people look at these tiled designs and wonder what they're all about. I had figured out Brixton (not difficult of course), but despite having used Stockwell a great deal in a former life I don't think I would ever have got the swan. I really like it now you've clarified. I also love the Blackhorse Rd black horse, though again it's a bit of an obvious one, but never mind.
Ashamed to say, in all the years I used the Victoria Line, I'd also never noticed there was a swan in that design at Stockwell.
@@frglee The Swan Pub had a mix of reputations, the good one being the music venue part of it
@@frglee Nor did I - don't be ashamed. Why would it be a swan? (well, now we know of course).
@@highpath4776 It was a great music venue in ts day - last time I went past (3 years ago at least) it was all just tribute bands, including a Steps tribute band FFS. Steps *were* a tribute band!
Jago, many thanks for this. Your content never fails to pique my interest. I'd not really taken in the murals and artwork, let alone the meaning behind them, though I was familiar with the Seven Sisters (probably from one of your earlier videos! Us 153K subscribers are lucky to have you as part of our lives.
ps, the mural at 7:00, brought to memory a similarly patterned gold wallpaper we had in at home in the 70's, probably purchased from Texas Homecare or the like!!
pps. Yes pls, do a video on Tottenham Hale - you could go grab lunch at the Ferryboat Inn just up the road beside the aforementioned River Lea.
Excellent Jago, I love your channel 🚃
Hatton Cross has some Speedbird Aeronautical design tile work that I think are fantastic 😊. Keep up the great work 🙏
What an unexpected treat for a Sunday.
Wish I knew about these when I was down in London in March. Especially the Oxford Circus one as that's one of the stations I used. I would've looked out for it.
Perhaps we should make a small correction..... all LU stations feature a labyrinth, not a maze. Puzzling, but there is a huge difference you know; a labyrinth has a single continuous path which leads to the centre, whilst a maze has multiple paths which branch off and will not necessarily lead to the centre.
From those definitions I would say that LU stations feature a maze, from my experience they all have multiple paths which do not necessarily lead to the platform or exit that I want. 🙂
@@railwaydragon yeah...I'm lokking at you, Bank Station :-)
Wish I'd seen this before returning back home from a weekend darn sarf, indeed staying at Vauxhall, so could've seen a few of these arts on my travels.
I knew Julia Black 30-odd years ago. I had no idea that she'd done the Walthamstow tiles. But as a textile designer it's no surprise that she'd choose to reference William Morris.
Brilliant video from a keen admirer of this channel. It's totally on 👉
Thanks Jago for another excellent video!
I need to check all of these out, great stuff.
I had no idea these murals existed, as I've never seen them before in any video. As soon as I saw the William Morris tiles I had an inkling it was themed around wallpaper, but you mentioned the fellow's name before I had time to recall it.
Great video. My copy of misha black art book arrived. It was in black and white!
Dear Jago I’m a massive fan of your Channel . Could you do a video of Victoria Coach station. I just love the Art Deco and the history of the place
Good stuff bro greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks for this video. Hadn't realised of many of those, mainly the Victoria station one!
Fascinating ! Thanks again, Jago !
Another vid following a great pattern Tom! Happy Easter 🙂
All the Murials…
You misspoke when you mentioned Blackhorse Lane, which is of course a tram stop in Croydon. What you showed is Blackhorse Road. Sorry to be pernickety. Put it down to OCD
I knew someone would spot that, I wasn't going to say anything...keep it up Jago, you're still doing a grand job! (Well spotted Gerald!!)🤣
Superb one Jago 👏 👌
Another enjoyable video - I must confess that I am clearly unobservant as apart from the Victoria tiles at Victoria, I had never seen the others or even knew this was a “thing” on the line! 🤦♂️
Oooh, please do a video on ancient ferries!
Another extremely interesting, and fact-filled video. Thanks Jago.
Did you have to make puns about Warren Street - it was *NOT* "Warren"-ted
Be not a-mazed.
@@JagoHazzard 🤣👍
Brilliant!
Did the Easter Bunny not make an appearance?
They'll be rabbitting on about this for days
Thank you for another interesting video Jago. One thing I wondered about was how many old coaching inns survive in London, does anyone know?
The Blackhorse Road tiles
by Hans Unger
(about whom I am having problems with finding more info)
is interesting as it looks like a paper cut out style horse
which reminds me of Otl Aicher's work
I saw an exhibition of his papercuts in Bielefeld
about ten years ago - it was amazing.
Aicher is most famous for his work
on the Munich Olympics and the stylised sports logos
and the fonts
still used by the Olympics and also in a lot of International Airports.
I wonder if Hans Unger was a colleague or a student of Aichers?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Unger
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists
I found that Hans Unger
who died in 1936 in Dresden
but I thought he might not be commissioned by the Victoria line
in the 1960s
over thirty years AFTER his death.
@@johncrwarner Another nice poem!
Did you write this poem yourself?
"is interesting as it looks like a paper cut out style horse" is a lovely line, worthy of Philip Larkin. Well done if so.
@@rodjones117
I wrote the comment
in the style of the American Mathematician
Lilian Lieber
who in one of her books wrote:
"This is not intended to be
free verse.
Writing each phrase on a separate line
facilitates rapid reading,
and everyone
is in a hurry
nowadays."
I like her work and enjoyed her introduction
to the General Theory of Relativity
written in this style.
If it reminds you of Larkin,
thank you for the complement,
but it was a pure fluke.
I used to work for a particular large organisation headquartered at Vauxhall Bridge, and caught the train there a lot--I always thought the flowery tiles were sort of naf, and looked like a weed garden.
If I remember correctly, which I often don't, Blackhorse Rd. Station was built on the site of a Micanite factory. As kids we were marched round it on a school trip. I think the point of the exercise was to demonstrate what was in store for us if we didn't shape up....
Ta Jago.
Really lovely video.
How did i miss these in all my years of commuting?
Was the Ferry Hail and Ride?
Please do one about the ferry over the River Lea.
You mention the streets at King's Cross (the monument) were realigned to make way for St.Pancras. Do you happen to have details about how it looked beforehand?
Super Interesting Video.
Thank you.
Thanks for the explanation.
Yay! I recognized the Warren Street maze immediately. My Nan was actually born in Warren Street
A fantastic video sir.
I like the Pleasure Gardens reference at Vauxhall, but I'm wondering if they chose that rather than the locally relevant Griffin heraldry (also associated with the park) because they didn't want to be seen offering free advertising to the makers of the Viva?
Mind you, I like Vivas...
'ceramic tale'
Well played sir!
and talking of tiles... is it Green Park, where there's a mosaic, that runs from the Victoria line to the Piccadilly line, that starts off predominantly light blue (Victoria) and then increments to dark blue (Piccadilly) and somewhere in between ? Mr Marshall will know, Secrets of the Victoria line or the Piccadilly line, I should have taken notes
It is. I’m currently looking into that station in a bit more depth.
I really can’t decide how I feel about he Vic Line stations. I often wonder if my view has been biased in the past because of its being intrinsically connected with so many happy memories of journeys with my dad to see the grandparents (to Walthamstow, then bus to Chingford) or to the south coast (To Victoria then by train or coach to Brighton, Hastings, etc), then a little later the numerous gigs I attended at Brixton Academy, plus all manner of of times since when I’ve had occasion to use it 🤔
I think in the 70s there was a splash of something different because if it’s unique tickets machines and because it really was a bit of a watershed in many respects. But as you say, the stations although largely functional do lack a bit “up top” so to speak, certainly when you consider the structures for its darker blue sister line, which was as likely to be selected as we often started from Finsbury Park Station. That said, the tiles were always something to look out for (Stockwell being my favourite, followed by the Black Horse and the Green Park abstract) and being odd, I always liked the illuminated Formica signs in the platforms. These gave the platforms a completeness in junior Tim’s eyes which made tube travel that bit different from ‘other railways’. 😄
I love how you always manage to eke out my memories and get me to revisit and reanalyse my childhood psyche 🧐
Cheers Jago 👍🍀🍻
Please do a video on the ferry at River Lee!
Very interesting video, thank you!
Fascinating stuff, Mr Hazzard. Not sure I'm a fan of lots of grey tiles no matter how many shades they used. So a bit of colour is a good thing.
Highbury has an Octagonal motif reminiscent of MG cars. But I cant find any connection that might suggest that as the origin of the design...unless its the Morris Gallery?
Grey is 'in' nowadays, although it gets called platinum to make it appear more expensive and thus cooler. See National Express West Midlands for the dismal nadir of grey masquerading as 'quality'. Grey buses in a conurbation which already suffers from too much 1960s/70s grey concrete.
@@atraindriver Indeed. Just been house hunting. Number of interiors that are grey, grey with slightly different grey on the bedspread was mind numbing. Ugh.
The octagon is just a coincidence I think. MG cars were made in Abingdon in Oxfordshire so no obvious connection to Highbury. Nor for the interesting octagonal towers at Ely, Acle, Fotheringay etc.
I have lived in London my entire life and I used the Victoria line for the first time a few days ago. Coincidence? I think yes
A fer-tile topic indeed!
Finsbury Park: I remember that you did a video last year about duelling (gentlemen blowing each other's head off in a most civilised and dignified manner), and you mentioned that the duels were happening near the area, certainly not Finsbury Square near Old Street in the city. Unfortunately, I cannot include the link because TH-cam would delete the comments automatically and immediately.
Yes it's confirmed that the duelling did take place at Finsbury Square near Old Street/Moorgate, not Finsbury Park (whoops!!)
@Alfred Wedmore Hee hee, would they have spent cash on a couple of train fares anyway, just for one of them to kill the other one??
And the hot air balloon mural at Finsbury Park Piccadilly Line is the same error. The balloons were launched from Finsbury Fields not Finsbury Park, which didn’t exist at the time.
Thank you everyone for the clarification and the information about the hot air balloons. Looks like there is still a lot of hot air about Finsbury Park.
Superb video as usual. Please do one on Tottenham Hale.
I'd also say the crowns of the Kings Cross mural look a little like the frontage of King's Cross station too? Two arches with a small tower in the middle.
Tiles from the tube. Love it.