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<br/>Holborn is on both the Central and Piccadilly Lines, and the Piccadilly Line station was opened in 1906. In 1933 the station was substantially modernized including the opening of the Central Line station, which replaced the British Museum station about 250 metres away to the west. This is the west entrance to the station in Kingsway. There is a north entrance in High Holborn round to the left. The former Kingsway tram subway passes under and along the road here. The bus is on a 243 service bound for Waterloo Station.
©Nigel Cox
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©Bill Henderson
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©John Goodall
<br/>This extraordinary sight was photographed on the corner of Kingsway and High Holborn: a man pushing a trolley laden with assorted plastic bags - contents unknown - along the pavement, the weight of it being such as to make it hard to manoeuvre. Passers-by looked on, even lent a helping hand, but no-one spoke...the magnitude of the operation was awe-inspiring and yet heart-breaking too.
©ceridwen
<br/>Looking straight up the south face of the Parker Tower. The 14-storey building was completed in 1967, but has since been re-clad and refurbished.
©Stephen McKay
<br/>The building on the corner of Macklin Street and Newton Street is Wimbledon House, its architecture in contrast to the modern office blocks further along Newton Street. Macklin Street, now an unremarkable back street connecting Holborn and Covent Garden, once known as Lewknors Lane and later Charles Street, was notorious in the 18th and 19th centuries for its houses of ill-repute. It was renamed Macklin Street in 1878, after an 18th century Shakesperian actor, and became gentrified.
©Stephen McKay
<br/>Taken at the junction with Macklin Street. This area, sandwiched between Covent Garden and Holborn is one of the parts of central London that has a 'village' atmosphere, with a range of local shops, a pub and a primary school.
©Stephen McKay
<br/>The Central Line platform of Holborn Underground station
©Phillip Perry
<br/>Photo taken looking across the junction with Southampton Row and Kingsway. The building with the domed turret is Pearl Assurance Company. On the corner with Kingsway (right), near the Underground station, is an example of that now extinct British institution a J.Lyons cornerhouse. Picture scanned from an old slide.
©David Wright
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©Stacey Harris
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©Basher Eyre
<br/>This pub, on the corner of Newton Street and Parker Street, gives the appearance of having been slotted in under an office block. Note the reflection of the building opposite in the mirrors of the parked motorcycles.
©Stephen McKay
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©R Sones
<br/>Bovis getting ready for a new building behind the facade.
©Steve Fareham
<br/>Seen here from Parker Street, this blue office block dominates the surrounding streets. It was built in 1967, but has been re-clad since, and consists of 55,000 sq. feet of office space on 14 floors.
©Stephen McKay

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