Plaque Wording: Arnos Grove Station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners. 1932
Built as part of the 1932/33 Piccadilly line extension, this station is internationally recognised as one of the most iconic transport buildings of the 20th century. The emphatic design, that was so novel when built, is of a tall brick drum rising from a low, square structure that include shops and offices. The interior is dominated by the central column and 'passimeter', and shows the careful attention to integrated design that is so notable on this group of stations, linking together the use of materials, such as brick, concrete and bronze work.

Plaque Wording: Blackwall Tunnel London County Council
Commenced 1892 and opened in 1897
by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
on behalf of
Her Majesty the Queen
List of names follows
{underneath}The above plaque was removed from the original tunnel entrance gateway which was demolished in 1959 to make way for the new Northern Approach to Blackwall Tunnel

Plaque Wording: Heritage information Boston Manor station Listed as a building of National Significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners, 1934
Originally opened in 1883, the station was rebuilt as part of the 1932/33 Piccadilly line extensions. Unlike other contemporary stations on the line the design does not display the tall 'box' structure for a ticket hall. Instead a low level structure in brick and concrete was developed, but with a prominent tower designed to act as a signpost to the station in the local landscape. The use of an 'advertising tower' was popular with Dutch and German architects at the time. At platform level the original Victorian structures are retained.

Plaque Wording: Heritage Information Chalk Farm Station Architect: Leslie Green 1907 The station opened on 22 June 1907 on the Golders Green branch of the Charing Cross, Edgware & Hampstead Railway, one of the lines that were part of the Underground Electric Railways of London (UERL) group. Formed by the flamboyant American financier Charles Tyson Yerkes, he was determined that the UERL stations should all have a similar look - an early "corporate identity". One way to do this was to use the same architect Leslie Green, for all the group's stations.
The station is a fine example of Green's architecture, a two storey structure with its multiple identical arches and the red glazed terracotta façade. It is believed to be the longest street frontage of the original stations. The terracotta was made by the Burmantofts Fireclay Company in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The station was designed as a 'plinth' that would allow the construction of a building above - this has never happened here. Inside the station, at street level, there are fine examples of the green "pomegranate" design relief tiles. Lower down, and at platform level is the red and cream ceramic tile design. Each of the UERL tube station platform designs had a unique coloured pattern tile design. This was intended to allow regular passengers to recognise their stop. The station, refurbished several times, still has many of the original design features.

Plaque Wording: Chiswick Park station Listed as a building of National Significance Architect: Charles Holden, 1933
The station first opened on 1 July 1879 by the Metropolitan District Railway when the railway was extended from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway. The station was originally named 'Acton Green' and was renamed to 'Chiswick Park' on 1 March 1910.
The original station was demolished in 1931 to accommodate the new Piccadilly line tracks, although the Piccadilly line has never served the station, and the new building opened in 1933.
The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Similar to the station at Arnos Grove that Holden designed for the eastern Piccadilly Line extension, the station's predominant feature is the tall semi-circular ticket hall. Externally the brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof. To make the station's location visible from Chiswick High Road the station was also provided with a square brick tower surmounted by the roundel and the station's name. The ticket hall once housed a central passimeter, which has now been replaced with the brick built ticket office accommodation which has altered the appearance of the grandiose hall.
The station was Grade II listed on 18 February 1987.

Plaque Wording: Heritage Information Cockfosters station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Charles Holden, 1933
The station opened in the then small hamlet of Cockfosters on 31 July 1933, the last of the stations on the extension of the line from Finsbury Park. The station was to be a focal point for a new suburb and although some development took place, areas to the north and east of the station became part of the protected London green belt.
The station building is a low European style brick structure flanked by two small towers each with a pole mounted roundel. The alignment of road and rail approaches was developed to produce a ticket hall concourse of pentagonal plan. Reinforced concrete was used for the entire concourse and train shed. At the time, the use of such materials, unadorned, was viewed as a modernistic approach to buildings in this country. This station is located in a 'cutting' and required natural light to enter from above, so the roof was built in two levels with inclined clerestory windows running the full length terminating in an apex above the concourse. Other noteworthy elements of the station include the predominant use of bronze framed signs and windows, the original passimeter, rectangular train describer box with integral clock and the timber seats. This station, along with adjoining stations on the Piccadilly line, are now internationally recognised as being some of the finest examples of 1930s architecture designed by Holden and Partners.
The station was Grade II listed in May 1987.

Plaque Wording: The Croydon Canal opened in 1809, joining the Grand Surrey Canal & New Cross. 'Frog Island' was the name given to land enclosed by the sweeping bend in the canal at South Norwood. The canal transported goods between London and Croydon until its closure in 1836.
The London & Croydon Railway Company bought the land, opening Croydon's first steam railway in 1839. The route mainly followed that of the canal, apart from at South Norwood where it cut through 'Frog Island'.
South Norwood's first station was located between what is now Manor Road and the upper part of the High Street. It was called the 'Jolly Sailor', after the nearby pub. In 1859 the station moved to its present site to allow for more connections to London, Croydon and beyond.

Plaque Wording: As Cutty Sark approached the English Channel returning from Australia, Able Seaman John Clifton, aged 21, and John Doyle, aged 30, were washed off the jib-boom and lost. 2nd April 1893

Plaque Wording: Near this spot, Able Seaman John Francis was struck with a capstan bar during a brawl by First Mate Sidney Smith and died. 11th August 1880

Plaque Wording: In memory of those whose service in the Merchant Navy helped to enlarge the livelihood of Britain and protect the freedom of the British Commonwealth of nations. 1957

Plaque Wording: Here to commemorate an era. The Cutty Sark has been preserved as a tribute to the ships and men of the Merchant Navy in the days of sail. They mark our passage as a race of men. Earth will not see such ships as these again. 1957

Plaque Wording: During the 2006-12 Conservation Project, a fire broke out near this spot. Fortunately, the masts, deckhouses and many of the hull planks had been removed for conservation and the fire was quickly brought under control by the London Fire Brigade without serious loss of original fabric. 21st May 2007

Plaque Wording: Ealing Common Station Listed as a building of national significance Architect: Charles Holden & Partners 1930
For the extension of underground lines that took place in the 1930s the architect, Charles Holden, wanted to develop a different design to that he had used on the Morden extension in the 1920s. This rebuilt staion is one of the 'halfway houses', clad in the Portland stone of the earlier designs but with the taller, freestanding ticket hall that would mark out later stations such as Sudbury Town. Inside the hall, now lacking its original central ticket office, the glazing for the high-level windows cleverly includes the underground, the roundel. The noted theatre designer, Basil Ionides, designed the frieze.

Plaque Wording: Heritage feature Elephant & Castle station (Northern line platforms) Architect: Thomas Phillips Figgis 1890 (original buildings now demolished)
The station originally opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the City & South London Railway (C&SLR), the world's first electric underground . The multi-coloured platform tiles are typical of Northern line platforms that were reconstructed as part of the original line south to Morden in 1924/26. In 2006 the tiles were carefully replicated due to the poor condition of the originals. This resulted in the high level timber framed roundels being repositioned due to modern day requirements for services and systems.
The original C&SLR white tiles that remain from 1890 are still in situ on the tunnel roof over the Northern line tracks, although they are now covered over by the new cable management system. Rarer still are the last surviving patterned tiles that can be found in the Northern line's spiral staircase.
The station was linked to the Bakerloo line and its separate surface buildings when it opened in 1906 by low-level subways. On the surface the original C&SLR buildings were demolished in the 1960s as part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the area.

Plaque Wording: Esperance Bridge July 2021 Named by the children of the Kings Crsoss Academy, Esperance means hope, expectation and belief. The name is inspired by the Esperance Club (1895-1914), a pioneering social project for local sewing girls founded by the radical Suffragettes Mary Neal and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.

Plaque Wording: Croydon Road Recreation Ground 9th August 1902
Britain's First Public Airmail Flight Beckenham - Leeds Castle - Godmersham - Dover
Pilots - M Auguste Eugine Gaudron Dr Francis Alexander Barton Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic Society

Plaque Wording: BETWEEN APRIL AND AUGUST 1945, A LARGE NUMBER OF SURVIVORS FROM PRISON CAMPS, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, FORCED LABOR CAMPS, ALL VICTIMS OF NAZISM, WERE WELCOME ON THEIR RETURN IN ORSAY STATION, THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH CENTER OF REPATRIATION

Plaque Wording: Vestry of St Pancras
Gloucester Gate Bridge and Approach Road
This bridge and approach road was opened for public traffic on the 3rd day of August 1878 by Field Marshal, HRH the Duke of Cambridge, GCB, KP, GCS, GCNB, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 17th Lancers, 60th Rifles and 77th Regiment. Commanding in Chief the Forces. George Alfred Nodes, Richard Kent - Churchwardens Frederick George Baker, Chairman, James Balfour, Deputy Chairman - of the Highways and Public Works Committee

Plaque Wording: Vestry of St Pancras
This stone was fixed on the 11th day of August 1877 by The Right Honourable Gerard James Noel PC, MP., First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings at whose suggestion a part of the royal demesne Regents Park was given up for this great public improvement, assisted by William Thornton, George Alfred Nodes - Churchwardens James Hoppey - Chair Thomas Bentley Westacott - Deputy Chairman of the General Purposes Committee upon the direction of which committee the plans of this bridge were designed and prepared for the vestry of St Pancras by William Booth Scott, member of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineer Kirk & Randall - Contractors Thomas Eccleston Gibb - Vestry Clerk

Plaque Wording: Golders Green station Architect: Unknown (Stanley Heaps alterations, 1923/24)
Golders Green station was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (now part of the Northern line) on 22 June 1907. It was one of the railway's two northern terminals (the other being at Archway) and was also the site of the railway's depot. At the beginning of the 20th century Golders Green was a small rural hamlet with approximately one hundred houses, but the opening of the railway stimulated a rapid residential growth resulting in a large population increase. It became an important interchange for bus passengers, originally carried on trams and then trolleybuses. The station was substantially altered as part of the line extension to Edgware in 1922 - 24 that involved the demolition of many relatively new houses as the line carved its way through the suburban streets.
The subways and stairwells retain the original tile schemes, which although comprehensively refurbished in 2005, retain the original features such as the timber handrails with scrolled ends. On the platforms the timber benches with integrated roundels, analogue clocks and canopies with the timber valence still survive.
To the south of the station in the tunnels beneath Hampstead Heath is the partially built but uncompleted North End or Bull & Bush station.

Plaque Wording: Great Portland Street station Listed as a building of national significance Architects: Sir John Fowler (platforms), 1863 C. W. Clark (station building), 1930
The station opened as 'Portland Road' on the 10 January 1863, as part of the new Metropolitan Railway. This line, between Paddington and Farringdon stations, is the oldest underground passenger railway in the world. The station was renamed 'Great Portland Street' in March 1917 and then changed again to 'Great Portland Street & Regents Park' in 1923. The station reverted to its current name in 1933.
The original 1863 building was similar to others built by Sir John Fowler when the railway first opened. The station was famed for its two domed towers either side of the entrance which were an added architectural feature, a requirement due to it being located on the crown estate. They were removed nine years after opening due to the high cost of maintenance.
The current building is unusually situated on a traffic island. Its construction is a steel framed cream terracotta clad exterior, with the perimeter providing shops and originally a car showroom with office space over the station. Eight internal columns dominate the ticket hall with a brown and cream patterned tiled floor which has been replicated following the necessary installation of the ticket gates. When the station was rebuilt between 1929 and 1931 the platforms were also extended to accommodate 8 car trains with the majority of the original brick arches retained from the 1863 construction.
The station was Grade II listed on 19 January 1987.