Welcome to my cluttered and unruly website. This is my hobby, the result of years of hoarding but I'll deal with you in the most prompt, honest and businesslike manner I can. This site enables me to share with you the truly evocative and iconic signs from London's famous transport system that I grew up with and depended on.  Then, a few real copper coins bought a personalised bus ticket that was reeled off by hand. You entered and left a tube station passing a uniformed inspector who checked your ticket. No electronic barriers to negotiate, no cameras watching your every move and the trains bore no mindless graffiti.  Self-serve ticket machines only took coins and worked via simple buttons. No ‘ology’ in computer graphics required. Unlike now, knife-carrying passengers were almost exclusively Boy Scouts or chefs harmlessly transporting the tools of their trade.

I expect you can remember those days too, of open platform buses with conductors and tube trains with guards. These often very extrovert people gave passengers a much more secure feeling, - often with some amusing banter from conductors as they dealt with all forms of human life. Upstairs on a bus or in some tube train carriages you could legitimately light up an Embassy King Size cigarette or participate in the then unheard of dangerous sport now known as ‘passive smoking’ all as your clothes soaked in the pong of smoke. With no ashtrays you were invited to throw cigarette ends on the floor. The ‘Fag-But & Wrong Bin Gestapo’ with their masive fines were thankfully decades away.

Perhaps that’s why you’re here, enjoying a trip down your own ‘memory lane’ with me going back to what seemed like a much simpler world.

None of these signs are in use today, many go back to the late 1960's and some of the maps way way back to the 1920's. The picture below left shows how lovely a selection of these delightful genuine and original items look once framed. These make superb and entirely unique gifts that will last a lifetime. My awful photography does them no justice at all. The pictures show a tiny selection of what’s available when you click through the pages on the site. Here and there a few signs have crept in from outside London that may well have some interest value in the right setting. Please note that the images below are not all to the same scale, nor does their poor focus show them as crisp as they really are. I've kept the pictures as small as I can so this site doesn't take a week to load! Dimensions are shown on most and I’ll slowly add as much detail as and when I can. If you do buy an item often some of the proceeds go towards restoring a rare front-entrance Routemaster bus.

Train front destination signs

Tube Station Temporary signs

Bus blinds

Line Car Diagrams from the 1970’s - 1990’s, many pre-zoning.

Links to other pages (click the pictures below)

Notices Direction Signs Old Maps, Books & Bus Interior Posters

Enamel Signs & Hardware

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“It's here! It's amazing, absolutely perfect! I love it”! C.C.UK

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Special Bus Signs