Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

The photographs featuring tube strikes, carriage redesigns, passenger complaints, ticket machines and air raid shelters...

 
Hammersmith Broadway, 1910.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
The interior of a District Line Underground carriage, 1911.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
The ticket hall of Liverpool Street Station, 1912.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
The platform of the Central London Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station, 1912.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
Interior of an all-steel London underground train, circa 1920.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
A man writing on a complaints poster, 1922.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
Farringdon Street (Farringdon) Station in March 1924.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
The entrance to Blackfriars Underground station, 1924.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
Clapham South, 1926.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
London tram workers queue up for their pay at the tram subway in Kingsway, High Holborn, 1926.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

The Mayor of Westminster turns on the escalators at Piccadilly Circus in 1928.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

British director Anthony Asquith (1902-1968), right, directing his new film ‘Underground’ from an escalator on the London underground, May 1928.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

Construction work at the ticketing area of the new Piccadilly tube station, 1928.

 

The Hon Anthony Asquith filming commuters for his film of the underground, 1928.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

Platforms are lengthened at Euston Square underground station, 1930.

 

A passenger takes a ticket from the machine at Piccadilly Circus, 1930.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

A traveller buys a London Underground season ticket from a vending machine at Highgate Station, 1932.

 

Passengers on an escalator, September 1932. The posts were erected to avoided a crush during rush hours.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

Leicester Square, 1933.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

A group of Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner, circa 1935.

 

New interiors in 1936: more seating, better lighting and ventilation and a more streamlined shape.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

A passenger opening one of the doors on the Hammersmith and City Underground Line, which have been fitted with new buttons for opening and closing doors, 1936.

 

London’s Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station on the left, 1938.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

The entrance to Embankment, 1938.

 

A strike causes huge queues to build up at the bus stops outside Liverpool Street, 1939.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

Stockwell station, 1939.

 

City gents, 1939.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

A guard outside a station which has been closed to the public two days after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, 5th September 1939.

 

 Vintage Photos of the London Underground From Between the 1910s and 1930s

 
People asleep on the platform of Holborn underground station during an air raid, 1940.