TUBE MAP REDESIGNED BY TFL TO MARK BLACK HISTORY MONTH

The Tube map has been recreated to honour hundreds of people who helped shape black history in Britain.

All 272 stations have been renamed after figures dating from pre-Tudor times to the present day, including the first black woman to serve in the Royal Navy and a Victorian circus owner immortalised by The Beatles.

More recent names include the novelist Andrea Levy, the comedian Felix Dexter, the Hot Chocolate singer Errol Brown and the footballers Laurie Cunningham and Justin Fashanu.

The map has been produced by Transport for London in partnership with Black Cultural Archives to mark Black History Month.

Arike Oke, managing director, Black Cultural Archives said: “London’s Black history is deeply embedded in its streets and neighbourhoods.

“We’re delighted, as part of our 40th anniversary celebrations, to use this opportunity to share new and old stories about Black history with Londoners and visitors to London. We hope that the map will be an invitation to find out more and to explore.”

The names on the Tube lines have been chosen to represent different themes: firsts and trailblazers; Georgians; sports; arts; LGBTQ+; physicians; performers; literary world and community organisers.

The map can be viewed in full at www.tfl.gov.uk/Black-history-map and can be ordered via the London Transport Museum and Black Cultural Archives, in Brixton.

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