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Going down the escalators, Holborn tube station.
Like many other central London Underground stations, Holborn was modernised in the early 1930s to replace the lifts with escalators.
Shortly after the start of The Blitz, and Holborn was partly fitted out by the City of Westminster as an air-raid shelter. Coming and Going is a project commissioned by the Museum of London for photographer Barry Lewis in 1976 to document the transport system as it is used by passengers and commuters using public transport by trains, tubes and buses in London, UK.

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Going down the escalators, Holborn tube station.<br />
Like many other central London Underground stations, Holborn was modernised in the early 1930s to replace the lifts with escalators. <br />
Shortly after the start of The Blitz, and Holborn was partly fitted out by the City of Westminster as an air-raid shelter. Coming and Going is a project commissioned by the Museum of London for photographer Barry Lewis in 1976 to document the transport system as it is used by passengers and commuters using public transport by trains, tubes and buses in London, UK.
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