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| Woman Dressed in Green in a Sea of Black & White People, Liverpool Street Station, 2007, MW, Buy this Photo. London Photographer Blog, Photograph of the Day, London photo exhibition of the month, Submit your photography to Ravish London, Buy this photograph on a t-shirt! |
| Liverpool Street Station @www.ravishlondon.com Liverpool Street is the railway line of many City Workers taking the underground or over ground back home. People say commuting is a crap experience, and I must admit if you have to stand up for half an hour in some dirty airless carriage it’s not too good. But get a train with a seat spare, snuggle up, doze of for ten minutes, read a bit of a book, its not that bad. Liverpool Street Station is the terminus of the Great Eastern Railway (quite what is ‘great’ about it I don’t know) which was opened in 1874. According to Charles (of London Town) Liverpool Street was given a corporate makeover in the 1980s, stating ‘There is none better than an asymmetric layout, and victorian London does it best. So why trash most of old Liverpool Street and transform it to look like a branch of Sainsburys?’ I did once meet a couple of Italian tourists who were on a train to Liverpool thinking they were going to Liverpool Street station. I’m sure that happens more often than anyone cares to imagine. I wonder if those who chose the name for the station ever thought of the occasional it would cause to travellers’ plans over the decades. On 7th July 2005 a couple of guys exploded a bomb on an underground train as it left Liverpool Street towards Aldgate. Seven people were killed in the explosion, and seven sets of friends and families deprived of an important relationship in their lives. It was one of four bombs that went off in London that day, sad, sad. But, lets not get things out of proportion. A year or so later Liverpool Street station was attacked again, but this time by a Flash Mob, see YouTube link to get in on the action! Liverpool Street station was originally the site for a Roman burial ground, and later was a hospital for what was known as the mentally insane. |
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