Colour transparency; staff on platform at Brixton Underground station, 1971

Underground railman Lloyd Manning and ticket collector Lucille Richmond pose beside the platform tile motif at Brixton Underground station in 1971. Artist Hans Unger's design was a visual pun based on the station's name: a ton of bricks. The photo was taken at the official opening of the Brixton extension of the Victoria line by Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, on 23 July 1971. Both members of staff met the Princess. The Victoria line terminus at Brixton made the area a well connected south London interchange between Underground, buses and overground trains.