B/W print; View along the northbound Northern line platform, Leicester Square station by Topical Press, 22 Nov 1935

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Reference number	1998/86813
Description	View along the northbound Northern line platform, Leicester Square station. Areas of biscuit-coloured wall tiling can be seen on the platform wall. An illuminated train describer, and illuminated direction signs of unusual design, hang above the platform. Lights with hexagonal shades and low-level wooden seating are visible in the foreground. Advertisements line both platform and tunnel walls.
Photographer	Topical Press
Dates	22 Nov 1935
Collection	Photographs
Object type	B/w print
Photograph number	U19028
Location	Acton Depot
Topics	Underground stations
Completeness	69% 69% ?

• Physical description

  Dimensions

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  Descriptive size	8x6ins

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  Train describer: First Edgware Second Highgate Passengers for Mornington Crescent must travel by Highgate trains All trains from this platform go to Euston Sign: Platform 1 Charing Cross Waterloo Clapham Morden Sign: Way Out Street Only Advert: Better buy Capstan they're blended better They're Wills's Advert: Coliseum Charing Cross Temple Bar 3161 Sir Oswald Stoll presents Lupino Lane's production Twenty To One The funniest musical sporting farce ever staged Evenings at 6-15 and 9-0 Matinees Weds & Sats at 2-30 Advert: Combe's Brown Ale Advert: There is no substitute J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne...Coughs colds influenza catarrh asthma bronchitis...Stomach chills Advert: Theatre Royal Drury Lane...All Star Matinee Advert: Lister non-crease ties Advert: Harry Hall Advert: London Hippodrome Bobby Howes Please Teacher! Vera Pearce Bertha Belmore Wylie Watson Sepha Treble Advert: Palais de Danse Dancing daily at 3 and 8 pm Hammersmith Film poster: Everyman Cinema Theatre Leni Riefenstahl Avalanche

  Design

  Attribute	Value
  Shot	Long interior

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  Role	Person(s) involved
  Photographer	Topical Press, 22 Nov 1935

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  Places

  Location	Leicester Square Underground station, Cranbourn Street, Westminster, WC2