Hampstead Station / (tube)

Architect: Leslie Green (1875-1908), designed in the Edwardian Baroque style and opened 1907. Steel frame with brick cladding, faced with ox-blood red faience tiles. This station has the deepest lift shaft on the Underground at 55m. The rails run 76m beneath Hampstead Heath. This was to be London Transport's emergency HQ in the event of nuclear attack during the Cold War. London Borough of Camden. 

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