A miscellany of the bits of London that got left behind and other graphic and architectural diversions
Fancy a trip to India?
It only takes 96 days in a Wolseley, according to this 1925 Edward McKnight Kauffer poster celebrating Major Forbes-Leith’s “marvellous journey”. There is so much going on here visually, that it ought...
Leftover London
…or not. The short-lived BSAA was partly responsible for the rise of The Bermuda Triangle legend with the disappearance of two of its planes in the area between 1948 and 1949. ‘Shep’, the artist, was...
Leftover London
Wiktor Gorka’s 1973 poster for the Polish circus is a cracker.
All stations to Elstree
These flip-over destination indicators sat on the fronts of trains on London Underground’s Northern Line from 1938. They were thinking ahead, because the line to Elstree hadn’t been built then, and...
A miscellany of the bits of London that got left behind and other graphic and architectural diversions
Leftover London: Photo
A miscellany of the bits of London that got left behind and other graphic and architectural diversions
48 years of misleading Londoners (hooray)
The promise couldn't be clearer - it is set in stone after all. There are clearly turkish baths in the arcade round the corner. Oh if only. But as anyone passing the corner of Russell Square and...
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artfromthefuture: “ Duhomard ” Extraordinary!
Leftover London
Around the back of London Wall in Finsbury Circus are these fine mosaics telling you where you are.
