Name: Bounds Green Station
Date: 1932
Architect: C.H. James
Lines: Piccadilly
Borough: Haringey
Listing: Grade II
Notes: Bounds Green station was designed by architect CH James, who gave the station an octagonal ticket hall, a variation on Holden's ‘Sudbury Box’ design.The eight sided shape allows more windows in the ticket hall than other Holden stations. At the bottom of the escalators are bronze uplighters, originally found at all of the extension stations, but some have now been removed. The station was hit by a Luftwaffe bomb on October 13th 1940, killing 19 people who were sheltering from an air raid.
SEE ALSO- Speed, Light, Modernity
Date: 1932
Architect: C.H. James
Lines: Piccadilly
Borough: Haringey
Listing: Grade II
Notes: Bounds Green station was designed by architect CH James, who gave the station an octagonal ticket hall, a variation on Holden's ‘Sudbury Box’ design.The eight sided shape allows more windows in the ticket hall than other Holden stations. At the bottom of the escalators are bronze uplighters, originally found at all of the extension stations, but some have now been removed. The station was hit by a Luftwaffe bomb on October 13th 1940, killing 19 people who were sheltering from an air raid.
SEE ALSO- Speed, Light, Modernity