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Tile: Stabler tile showing 55 Broadway, circa 1938

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Reference number
1996/3495
Description
This earthenware tile with cream glaze depicts 55 Broadway, the headquarters of London Transport (L.T.). The tile was used at platform level at St Paul's Underground station, and designed by Harold Stabler, who was commissioned to design a series of 18 relief patterns to complement plain tiled walls. Tiles like these were fitted to stations built between 1938 and 1946.
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Dates
circa 1938
Collection
Object type
  • Tile
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Completeness
74%