The Royal London Hospital
Whitechapel station looked to be ready for the East London Line, as all the new signs were there pointing to the platforms for the line. But before I started to follow the line, I looked at the famous hospital opposite.
The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel will always have a special place in my life, as my granddaughter was born there. Actually, not just born there, but operated on for a congenital hernia of the diaphragm at just a couple of days old. She is now eight and no-one would know she is not any normal eight-year-old.
It’s amazing how things have moved on in the forty years since our first son was born. Then in the Middlesex Hospital, the lady in the next bed, lost her baby to exactly the same condition, as that of my granddaughter.
Now the hospital is changing.
The Old Royal London Hospital
This shows the old buildings, with the impressive frontage of the Royal London Hospital.
But times are changing and a new hospital is rising behind the old.
The New Royal London Hospital Rises
One thing of note in the hospital grounds is an impressive statue of Queen Alexandra. She was very much someone who involved herself with the hospital.
The New East London Line
I have always been an advocate of calling the East London Line, the Brunel Line as it goes through the tunnel that father, Marc, and son, Isambard, built under the Thames.
It is now just a few weeks away from reopening the line as a major part of the London Overground, reaching from Highbury and Islington in the north to Crystal Palace and West Croydon in the south. So on Friday, I thought, I walk the line and take some photographs.
I started by taking a train to Whitechapel.
Numberplate for a Dog Trainer?
The plate on my Lotus Elan is K9 WFF. Not perhaps as good as K9 WUF.
But yesterday, as I went into Cambridge, I was following a van with the number K90 BAY, or as it was spaced K9 OBAY. Not perhaps as good as K9 OBEY, but good anyway!
The Anonymous Widower 
