Does TfL earn from illuminated ad at West Croydon?

[Gostav]

I think the problem is that the advertising operators who own/owned these advertising spaces have been constantly changing hands and merging over the years, and the successors do not always know the full status of their own company's assets. Some positions, such as the poster's example, have clearly been completely forgotten by the ad company.

 

[Joe Paxton]

This one at Charring Cross at 40 Years made the papers a few months ago...
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https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/17/man-finds-bilboard-charing-cross-40-years-developed-21621287/

For what it's worth, the 40 year old Otrivine advert is still there.

 

[swt_passenger]

This one at Charring Cross at 40 Years made the papers a few months ago...

Answer was that they'd stopped paying after advertising spend, so imagine case would likely be same here from the advertiser's viewpoint?

Man finds billboard he created in Charing Cross 40 years after he created it

‘I’ve no idea why it has never been replaced as the campaign ended so long ago.'

metro.co.uk

I wonder if part of the issue with that Charing Cross advert is that for some historic reason it’s unclear who owns the site? I read a few years ago that the responsibility for some of the subways lies with the council, even though it looks from the signage like you’re in the underground station. Even in the Metro article they refer to it as the tube station, but then later say they’ve asked Network Rail and Westminster council for comment.

 

[Joe Paxton]

I wonder if part of the issue with that Charing Cross advert is that for some historic reason it’s unclear who owns the site? I read a few years ago that the responsibility for some of the subways lies with the council, even though it looks from the signage like you’re in the underground station. Even in the Metro article they refer to it as the tube station, but then later say they’ve asked Network Rail and Westminster council for comment.

Westminster City Council are the owner of that part of the subway (i.e. underground walkways), not LU - there used to be a more extensive subway network around Charing Cross but in more recent years several parts have been closed off (as has been the general trend in London and elsewhere).

 

[swt_passenger]

Westminster City Council are the owner of that part of the subway (i.e. underground walkways), not LU - there used to be a more extensive subway network around Charing Cross but in more recent years several parts have been closed off (as has been the general trend in London and elsewhere).

Yes that rings a bell, didn’t those subways also link to a grotty basement shopping area across the street, and there were complaints about the more distant access points to the station, (such as in William IV Street), being lost when the basement was shut to the public?

 

[thelongestroad]

I remember seeing a GTA5 billboard at Taunton a few years ago. I think the newer pulley poster fixing system was broken so it was showing whatever the last "pasted" poster was on the original board underneath.