Charing Cross

Station London, United Kingdom

From Tottenham Court Road, on the Northern Line, you come to Charing Cross. Portraits of royals and famous people can be found on the platforms of the Bakerloo Line, while on the Northern you can find beautiful murals.

When it was being refurbished in the late 1970s, artist David Gentleman was commissioned to create a 100m long mural on the Northern Line platforms, commemorating the construction of the first Charing Cross. The name comes from the village of Charing, one of twelve places where Eleanor of Castile's coffin stood during the funeral procession, from the county of Lincolnshire to her grave in Westminster. King Edward I had an "Eleanor's Cross" erected in each of the posts, of which only three remain today. The one located in front of Charing Cross railway station is a copy of the original designed by the architect Edward Middleton Barry.