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Posters past

A while ago I posted, as did many other people, about the ghost posters of Notting Hill Gate, thanks to the wonderful photos taken by Mike Ashworth. In the late 1950s, this tunnel, which ran between different lines at Notting Hill Gate tube station, was replaced by escalators and sealed up.  What remained there for [...]

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The ghosts of Notting Hill Gate

I’m always intrigued by the afterlife of posters.  Most design history – and indeed almost any kind of writing about them – concentrates on how they were made, who designed them, how they were printed and so on.  But I’m just as interested in what happened to them afterwards.  What did people think about them [...]

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