art deco

Bid to build art deco style flats opposite nature reserve 0
- Environment, News
- 2nd July 2021
Developers want to demolish a two-storey, detached family home and build a three storey block of flats inspired by Surbiton railway station. The art deco style development – two one-bed studio flats in a basement, and two one-bed and three three-bed apartments across a further three floors – would be built in Oak Hill Grove
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YouTube film on Surbiton station 2
- Arts, News
- 4th May 2021
Train buff Jago Hazzard has posted a seven-minute video about the history of Surbiton railway station on his eponymous YouTube channel which has over 100,000 subscribers. Jago, who also has a Facebook page called Tales from the Tube, posts short films about public transport in and around London. His video Surbiton Station: An Art Deco
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Join group to enhance and improve Surbiton Station 0
- News
- 11th February 2021
The Friends of Surbiton Station group is now officially open for business! Anyone interested in helping to preserve and enhance the 1930s art-deco style station should visit www.kingstonletstalk.co.uk/surbiton-station for more information and to register their interest. “We are very aware that a number of local residents are keen to support our local station and that they would
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Hands up!0
- History, News
- 8th February 2021
They’re back! In the first bit of good news in Surbiton in a year, the clock hands on the station tower – the symbol of the town – have returned! It’s a moment of cheer in a time of gloom… on a par with ravens returning to the Tower of London. Loosened and ultimately ripped
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Become a friend of Surbiton’s famed art deco railway station 0
- Environment, News
- 16th January 2021
Would you like to be part of a Friends of Surbiton Station group to help enhance the building and improve the environment for railway passengers? Well, you could join an online group being set up by Kingston Council. The council is keen to unite those interested in preserving and enhancing the art deco-style railway station,
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Look, no hands!0
- News
- 1st March 2020
Look, no hands! Surbiton’s famous art deco station clock has lost both its pointers. Storm Ciara started it, loosening the elegant elongated diamond of an hour hand on the station clocktower, then Dennis swept into town and dislodged it completely… although it was prevented from tumbling to earth by the heroism of hour markers five
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