Was that when the museum moved to Covent Garden. I believe that it was located in a bus/trolleybus/tram depot in Clapham before that.My son recently bought me a t-shirt from the Transport Museum in Covent Garden.
On the front of it is the Underground roundel with the date 1970 beneath.
Can anyone explain the significance of 1970?
Thanks.
No, the Covent Garden site opened a few years later. I don't know the significance of the 1970 date, except to say that on the 1st January of that year 'ownership' of London Transport passed from the government to the Greater London Council, a hugely significant move that was downplayed by virtually everyone at the time. I worked for the organisation both sides of that date, and unless you worked for the Country Buses part of L.T. life just carried on regardless.Was that when the museum moved to Covent Garden. I believe that it was located in a bus/trolleybus/tram depot in Clapham before that.
Correction, it was the British Transport Museum at Clapham bus Garage which until about 1970, also housed the LT Museum.
No, the Covent Garden site opened a few years later. I don't know the significance of the 1970 date, except to say that on the 1st January of that year 'ownership' of London Transport passed from the government to the Greater London Council, a hugely significant move that was downplayed by virtually everyone at the time. I worked for the organisation both sides of that date, and unless you worked for the Country Buses part of L.T. life just carried on regardless.
Was that when the museum moved to Covent Garden. I believe that it was located in a bus/trolleybus/tram depot in Clapham before that.
Correction, it was the British Transport Museum at Clapham bus Garage which until about 1970, also housed the LT Museum.
Yes, and lots of stuff in store at Acton, where it remains to this day.Didn't Syon Park come after Clapham and before Covent Garden?