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Opened with a classic Leslie Green station building in 1906, the 1932 rebuilding of the station rendered the original entrance disused in favour of a subsurface booking hall featuring a display of model buses. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at [email protected] Read Reuben Lane's reflection on a journey on the number 19 bus (contains sexual references) References The Underground Stations of Leslie Green by David Leboff (Capital Transport Publishing 2002) Tiles of the Unexpected by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) London Underground Stations by David Leboff (Ian Allan Publishing 1994) The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016) Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 1993) Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground by David Bownes, Chris Nix, Siddy Holloway and Sam Mullins (Yale University Press 2019) London's Lost Tube Schemes by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2005) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001) 'World's most expensive hotel' put up for sale by Cahal Milmo (The Independent 17 September 2011) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/world-s-most-expensive-hotel-put-sale-5364768.html Hansard - House of Commons debate Volume 274 column 843, Tuesday 14 February 1933 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1933-02-14/debates/454c5110-982c-43ef-a31a-d95c6bb8fe13/OrdersOfTheDay Education, Literacy and the Reading Public by Amy J Lloyd, University of Cambridge https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/primary-sources/intl-gps/intl-gps-essays/full-ghn-contextual-essays/ghn_essay_bln_lloyd3_website.pdf St George’s Hospital website https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/about/history/ Manor Castles website https://manorcastles.com/places/united-kingdom/greater-london/westminister/5-star/lanesborough-house/ London Transport Museum photographic archive - multiple images including: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-66513 https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-81864 https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-84984