Some snapshots from another time and place… or maybe a love letter to The Tube. When I lived in London back in the mid-late 1980’s I haunted the Tube (London Underground) with my first camera, taking photos of the surreal combination of industrial-grade decrepitude, late Victorian mechanical and electrical engineering, and Dickensian characters. Oh, and the soundscapes I still hear in my mind decades later. These are some of the images I took back then that I’ve recently scanned. They’re mostly black and white, and they’re all pretty poor technically (I had a lot to learn, and taking photos in the Underground wasn’t exactly easy given the light and the laws); editing has been kept to a minimum. There are some obvious obsessions in there, especially Angel underground (my fave Underground haunt, with especially friendly rats and staff (the latter really indulged me — thanks guys from thirty-five years later!)). Just one mostly Northern Line person’s view of a long-gone workaday time and place… I have a lot more, but this’ll do.
Mind The Gap (Embankment Tube) Camden Tube Camden Town Camden Tube Coming Up Cabling Going Down Oxford Circus, After the Fire Warren Street Warren Street An Evening Commute West Acton, Central Line The Sharp End Highgate Tube Camden Town Angel Underground Angel Underground Shiny Highgate Tube Camden Tube Camden Tube Camden Tube Highgate Angel Underground Angel Underground Angel Underground Angel Underground Euston East Finchley East Finchley Euston Angel Underground Angel Underground Angel Underground Other Side Down Angel Underground Angel Underground Angel Underground Angel Underground Angel Underground Warren Street Warren Street On the Northern Line On The Stairs to the Platform, Camden Town On The Stairs to the Platform, Camden Town On The Stairs to the Platform, Camden Town On The Stairs to the Platform, Camden Town Another late night…