white plaque · London

Kentish Town station

This is a 'makers tile'. Makers' tiles were often fitted to newly tiled walls when railway stations were first built. This tile was originally fitted at Chalk Farm station. During the renovation of Kentish Town station in 2024, the tile was moved and reinstalled by conservationists. It pays homage to G. Woolliscroft & Son who supplied the tiles for the newly refurbished floor. Kentish Town is now a rare example of a station with two makers' tiles. The second tile carries the name of W B Simpson & Sons, who originally tiled Kentish Town station for its opening in 1907. It survives hidden in the disused lift shafts. This historical timeline was pieced together by London Transport Museum's Hidden London Hangouts team and viewers of their YouTube series.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

Nearby locations in London

Browse all memorials in London

Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.