time capsule
Some workers for the London Underground recently uncovered what is basically a time capsule gallery of wonderful advertisements from the late 1950's in the Notting Hill Tube station. It seems that some passageways were sealed up when elevators were replaced by escalators and left untouched since then, abandoning the original Central Line station. The space is inaccessible, but Mike Ashworth, Design and Heritage Manager for the London Underground (how cool is that they even have such a position?!), posted a Flickr set of photos so we can all see them. I ran across them on Grain Edit's blog, who found them via Quad Royal's. Really an amazing find, but especially great to be able to see them in their original context exactly as they appeared.