Charlotte Berridge Studio

Charlotte Berridge Studio Designer & illustrator. Lover of parks, pubs & pretty things! Check out my West London illustrated Prints, Cards & tea Towels.

After many years working as a Creative Director in magazines, I took some time out and decided not to go back! I launched my local print business six years ago. Starting by illustrating Ealing (my home), I have gradually added more areas of West London as my business has grown. I'm passionate about our unique corner of London and celebrating its rich architecture. I'm probably best known for my il

lustrations of our historic pubs. My work features:
ACTON ◆ BRENTFORD ◆ EALING ◆ CHISWICK ◆ HAMMERSMITH ◆ HANWELL ◆ KEW ◆ NORTHFIELDS ◆ RICHMOND ◆ TWICKENHAM

You’ll find all my products in ‘All Original’, a beautiful independent gift shop in Ealing (20 Ealing Green, W5 5DA).I also crop up with my gazebo at lots of local events including ‘Green Days’ at Bedford Park Festival, Richmond May Fair, Kew Midsummer Fete and the Brentford Festival to name a few. Check out my website www.charlotteberridge.com for more details

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 24: COLLIERS WOOD STATIONThis one is especially for Matt & Lizzie - Big thanks for yesterday’...
24/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 24: COLLIERS WOOD STATION

This one is especially for Matt & Lizzie - Big thanks for yesterday’s BBQ! We headed over to Colliers Wood last night so it feels right to highlight this wonderful Holden Station on Morden Extension of the Northern Line.

Matt bought Lizzie my Northern Line Holden Stations print for her birthday last year, so it was lovely to see it proudly hanging in their hallway 😊 (It was actually Lizzie who gently nagged me to add Colliers Wood into my collection in the first place 😉)

The Morden extention opened on 13 September 1926 and was Charles Holden’s first major project for the Underground. He was selected by Frank Pick, general manager of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), to design the stations after he was dissatisfied with designs produced by the UERL’s own architect, Stanley Heaps. Built with a shop to each side, the modernist design, like most of the stations on this stretch, takes the form of a double-height three-sided box clad in white Portland stone with a three-part glazed screen on the front façade divided by columns. Notice that the top of each column on these stations is infact a three-dimensional version of the Underground roundel.

Many of these early Holden stations feature fabulous circular chandeliers but I think the stylish wall light fittings at the top of the escalators are unique to Colliers Wood. Has anyone seen them feature elsewhere?

The pub across the road from Colliers Wood Station (see my final 2 images) is named “The Holden” in honour of the station’s architect 🍻 Check out their bespoke Holden wallpaper 😜

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 23: SUDBURY TOWN STATIONSudbury Town Station formed the blueprint for Charles Holden’s statio...
23/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 23: SUDBURY TOWN STATION

Sudbury Town Station formed the blueprint for Charles Holden’s stations in the early 1930’s. He described it himself as “a brick box with a concrete lid” and he used this template at many stations including Northfields, Acton Town, Sudbury Hill and Alperton on the western stretch of the Piccadilly Line. Take a look at my illustrated print (the last image on this carousel)

I’m always struck by the huge ticket hall and the fabulous curve of the waiting room. Check out the beautiful ceiling murals added in 2020 as part of a large-scale public commission by Art on the Underground by Scottish-born, Belgium-based artist Lucy McKenzie, titled Pleasure’s Inaccuracies.

Sudbury Town was constructed between December 1930 & July 1931. It was recognised in the architectural press of the time for its emphasis on form rather than applied decoration, use of pre-fabricated metal window units and concrete cast in situ. The station was Grade II listed in 1971.

The original blue station clock and barometer survive, as does the original newspaper kiosk with a curved glazed end. You will also see the original wood panelled passimeter complete with the old ticket issuing machine.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 22: CHISWICK PARK STATIONGrade II listed since February 1987, Chiswick Park Station is anothe...
22/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 22: CHISWICK PARK STATION

Grade II listed since February 1987, Chiswick Park Station is another of my favourite local Charles Holden designed stations.

The station was originally named ‘Acton Green’ and was renamed ‘Chiswick Park’ in 1910. The former station was demolished and the new Holden station created in 1932 as part of the western extension of the Piccadilly line from Hammersmith. Although the Piccadilly line has never stopped here, the station was reconstructed to allow the 2 fast Piccadilly tracks to speed through the middle.

Holden’s design was inspired by Alfred Grenander’s underground station Krumme Lanke in Berlin. Its design is very similar to the station at Arnos Grove that Holden designed for the eastern Piccadilly line extension. (Day 4 on my grid)

The station features a tall semi-circular ticket hall with the outer brick walls punctuated with panels of clerestory windows. The structure is capped with a classic Holden style flat concrete slab roof. The roof abuts the cantilevered concrete canopy of the westbound platform and a similar canopy shelters the eastbound platform too.

Not only is Chiswick Park Station in my card collection but it features on my Chiswick Illustrated print and my NEW Holden Tube Stations Print.

It’s Gunnersbury Park’s 100th birthday! Join the massive party on Bank Holiday Monday (25th May) and celebrate the best ...
21/05/2026

It’s Gunnersbury Park’s 100th birthday! Join the massive party on Bank Holiday Monday (25th May) and celebrate the best that Gunnersbury has to offer.

There will be crafts for kids, traditional games and activities to try. You can listen to live music from the 1920s, enjoy a Swing Dance Workshop, join in a tour of the park or Museum and find lots of fabulous local businesses at the community market (including me!)

Why not bring a picnic and admire the giant Community Picnic Blanket, with over 400 individual patchwork squares decorated by volunteers, community groups and local students.

You’ll find me & my gazebo along the path between the Museum & the Orangery. It really is such a stunning park and the forecast is looking amazing this weekend so I really hope you can join us.

☀️☀️☀️

Popes Lane, Ealing W5
11am - 4pm

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 21: NORTH EALING STATIONKeeping it short, sweet & not far from home today… North Ealing was t...
21/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 21: NORTH EALING STATION

Keeping it short, sweet & not far from home today… North Ealing was the only station on the South Harrow branch not rebuilt in the 1930s to the “Holden” style for the start of the Piccadilly Line service. As a result, it retains its slightly rural air. It officially opened on 23 June 1903

Not all the stations I’ve drawn are designed by Charles Holden, I have a few historically interesting local stations like this one in my collection too.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 19: NORTHFIELDS STATIONHere’s the lovely Northfields Station, my local and definitely where m...
19/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 19: NORTHFIELDS STATION

Here’s the lovely Northfields Station, my local and definitely where my love of Charles Holden’s architecture began. I love it when the sun streams in through the glass & doorway when you arrive home after a busy day.

Northfields station officially opened on 19 May 1932, 94 years ago today!

Northfields Station is an absolute classic Holden design. The brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with window panels and the structure is topped off with a flat concrete slab roof.

Northfields is the only station with black ceramic tiles on the bottom half of the the exterior. This was initially an experiment to cut down damage to the walls by commuters.

The original station was quite basic, called “Northfield Halt” it opened on 16 April 1908. It was renamed as “Northfields and Little Ealing” on 11 December 1911, and finally took its current name on when it reopened in 1932 to connect the new Piccadilly Line services on the Hounslow branch and the new Northfields depot that would housed its trains.

Northfields Station is obviously in my card collection & available as an A4 mounted print but it also features on my Northfields Illustrated print, my West London Holden stations print and my brand NEW Holden Station print too.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 18: PARK ROYAL STATIONDesigned by Herbert Welch & Felix Lander, the Art Deco style of this ma...
18/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 18: PARK ROYAL STATION

Designed by Herbert Welch & Felix Lander, the Art Deco style of this majestic station was certainly influenced by the Underground’s principal architect Charles Holden. The most prominent feature of the station building is the tall square tower featuring the underground roundel on each side. The tower sits adjacent to the circular ticket hall. All the station buildings are formed from a series of simple interconnecting geometric shapes.

Attached to the station building and across the small open space of Hanger Green are two curved three-storey retail and office buildings built in the same style as the station. The station opened on March 1st 1936.

The original station, slightly to the north of the current station, was called Park Royal & Twyford Abbey, serving the District Railway. It was built to serve the Royal Agricultural Showgrounds site which opened the same year, and from which the area derives its “Park Royal” name. As with lots of new tube stations from the 1930s, the name of the stop changed in the years after it opened, beginning as Park Royal (Hanger Hill) before dropping the name in brackets in 1947.

The station was awarded Grade II listed status in 1987. If you’re interested in the history of your local station, keep your eyes peeled for a brown plaque in the station building as you walk through.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 17: COCKFOSTERS STATIONFrom one end of the Piccadilly Line to the other. After featuring Uxbr...
17/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 17: COCKFOSTERS STATION

From one end of the Piccadilly Line to the other. After featuring Uxbridge Station yesterday, I thought I’d share Cockfosters Station today.

Compared with the other Holden stations on the Piccadilly Line extension, Cockfosters’ street buildings are modest in scale. Built in 1933 it was originally designed with two towers on either side of the road, with scope to add further shops & a cinema on top. After the Second World War the area was designated to be kept as part of The Green Belt Act so the station remained small.

The most striking feature of the station is the trainshed roof and platform canopies, which rise from the platforms and span across the tracks. This structure is made of reinforced, board marked concrete, lit above by large windows. The station has three tracks with platforms numbered 1 to 4, the centre track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3.

The trainshed structure was echoed in the design of Uxbridge station in 1938.

Find my illustrated print of the Holden Stations on the Eastern section of the Piccadilly Line, plus individual cards of each of these stations on my website too.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 16: UXBRIDGE STATIONThis is majestic Uxbridge Station, at the end (or beginning) of the Picca...
16/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 16: UXBRIDGE STATION

This is majestic Uxbridge Station, at the end (or beginning) of the Piccadilly & Metropolitan Lines. It’s an absolute architectural treat. Designed by the great Charles Holden (yes, him again!) with L H Bucknell. It opened in 1938, replacing an earlier station slightly to the north of this site.

It’s way out in zone 6, but a visit will reward you with lots of heritage features throughout the station. Look out for the stained glass triptych designed by Ervin Bossányi and the winged stone wheels over the entrance by Joseph Armitage (apologies for the large Christmas bauble spoiling one of the pics, these were taken a while ago and I’m too tight to splash out on another monster tube fare 🙄)

As well as the old fashioned light up train indicators, look out for the preserved old cigarette machines outside the newsagents at the entrance to the ticket hall.

The front of the building is a wide crescent. The concrete canopy within the station is similar to the one Holden designed earlier at Cockfosters, the terminus at the other end of the Piccadilly line.

Take a look at all the Holden stations on my illustrated print of the Uxbridge Branch of the Piccadilly Line.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 15: HOUNSLOW WEST STATION Check out this funky chandelier! It’s not a in a swanky hotel but i...
15/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 15: HOUNSLOW WEST STATION

Check out this funky chandelier! It’s not a in a swanky hotel but is the original light fitting at Hounslow West Station.

You may be forgiven at first glance of the exterior thinking this is Ealing Common Station but the beautiful heptagonal double-height ticket hall with it’s distictive pink and cream tiling, the original wooden passimeter (yep, once you learn a new word you need to keep using it 🤓) and fabulous bronze chandelier can’t be mistaken. This is probably the most unexpected interior of a station I’ve ever come across. Who knew Hounslow had such a hidden gem in its midst?!

Designed in 1931 by Charles Holden, with Stanley Heap as supervising architect on site. If you go, check out the eight-pointed star tiled floor (also original), the integral telephone kiosks (I need to pop back to reshoot these one day) and the bronze poster boards.

Not only is Hounslow West Station in my card collection but it obviously features on my NEW Holden Tube Stations print too.

A-station-a-day-for-MayDay 14: PERIVALE STATION It’s wasn’t designed by Charles Holden (yes, you all know I’m slightly o...
14/05/2026

A-station-a-day-for-May
Day 14: PERIVALE STATION

It’s wasn’t designed by Charles Holden (yes, you all know I’m slightly obsessed by his architecture 🤪) but Perivale Station was one of 16 London Underground stations that were given Grade II listed status in July 2011.

It was designed in 1938 by Brian Lewis, but its completion was delayed by the Second World War. The finished building was modified by architect Frederick Francis Charles Curtis, a planned tower (a bit like the one at Boston Manor station) and extended wing were never built, leaving the station smaller than originally intended. It finally opened in 1947.

Nestled against the railway viaduct it features a curved ticket hall and crescent driveway which was originally a drop off area for cars.

Don’t forget it’s a short walk from Perivale Station up the hill to Perivale Brewery & the wonderful Horsenden Farm. Always worth a visit 🍻

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