[8] It was decided to construct a sub-surface booking hall and circulating area, which would also provide public pedestrian subways.

The architect was Charles Holden and the builder was John Mowlem & Co: the whole complex cost more than half-a-million pounds.

The famous Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (alias Eros), directly above the station, had to be moved to Victoria Embankment Gardens while the construction work was taking place.

[13] In 2016, Art on the Underground commissioned artists Langlands & Bell to create an artwork to commemorate Frank Pick, the former CEO of London Transport, on the 75th anniversary of his death.

[14] The artwork Beauty < Immortality is located in a prominent place on the wall of the ticket hall, with a Frank Pick tube roundel and bronze lettering in Johnston – a typeface commissioned by Pick in 1915, which is still used across the London transport network today.