As Londoners, we often take the magic of the Underground for granted, instead lamenting about the delays and pushy passengers. But being able to move around a city of this size at the speed the Underground allows us is truly a marvel.
When we see images like the ones published in photographer Mike Goldwater’s new book, London Underground 1970-1980, we can’t help but feel nostalgic for a bygone era.
Goldwater’s book, published by Hoxton Mini Press, captures the ‘moments of tenderness and life’ in the Underground between 1970 and 1980, with images including a goodbye kiss, a man cradling a cat and another smoking a cigarette deep in thought.
A time before Oyster cards existed, the images also depict old ticket booths, retro carriages, bell-bottomed trousers and whisky adverts.
In the gallery above, see flashes of the Northern Line in 1974, a child sliding down escalator rails at Kings Cross in 1972 and an ominous tube approaching at Moorgate in 1973.
This is the second book about the Underground published in as many months, with Yale University Press publishing Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground in September.
Click through the gallery above to see a selection of Underground images from the 70s.
London Underground 1970-1980 (£16.95; Hoxton Mini Press) buy it here.
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