The Anonymous Widower

Elizabeth Line Bond Street Station And South Molton Street

South Molton Street is one of my favourite streets in London.

• It runs between Bond Street station on Oxford Street in the North and Fenwick’s department store on New Bond Street in the South.
• Many times, I bought my late wife; C’s Christmas or birthday present on that street, on New Bond Street or in Fenwick.
• One of her last purchases had been an Armani suit for work on New Bond Street.
• She also usually bought her shoes in Salvatore Ferragamo at the Southern end of New Bond Street.
• I would usually travel there by taking the Central Line to Bond Street station or the Victoria or Piccadilly Line to Green Park station.

C and I spent many hours happily shopping in that small area of the West End of London.

• We used to shop together for clothes, shoes and many other things.
• One day at a party in her barristers chambers in Cambridge, one of her colleagues expressed surprise that the following day, I was going clothes shopping with her in London.
• C replied to everyone’s amusement, that I was a transvestite-by-proxy. In other words, I am a man, who likes dressing ladies in appropriate clothes.
• I am also lucky, that my mother taught me to sew and in the early years of our marriage, I used to borrow my mother-in-law’s sewing machine and make some of C’s clothes.
• When long coats became fashionable in the 1960s, C had the first of any of her friends. Because I had made it!

So today, I just had to go and see how the new Elizabeth Line Bond Street station fitted in with my favourite shopping street.

I travelled to the new Davies Street entrance of the station.

• I walked through the tunnels to the original Underground station.
• I emerged onto Oxford Street.
• I walked down South Molton Street to Fenwick, with a couple of diversions.
• I then walked through Medici Courtyard to the Hanover Square entrance to Bond Street station.

Finally, I took the Elizabeth Line back to Moorgate for a bus to my house.

Note.

1. There are two banks of escalators to the surface at the Davies Street entrance at Bond Street station.
2. The tunnel between the Davies Street entrance at Bond Street station and the original Underground station has a seat at halfway.
3. South Molton Street connects to Oxford Street.
4. South Molton Passage connects the Davies Street entrance at Bond Street station and South Molton Street.
5. C had her unusual wedding dress made in Haunch of Venison Yard.
6. The Medici Courtyard sign also says it leads to the Elizabeth Line.
7. I couldn’t find a coffee shop selling a cappuccino and a gluten-free cake in Medici Courtyard. That is poor!

One of the station staff at Hanover Square indicated, that there may be additional passages to the West of New Bond Street, that will connect to the Davies Street entrance at Bond Street station.

I feel this could make the area even better.

October 24, 2022 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel, World | Bond Street Station, Clothes, Elizabeth Line, Escalators, Fenwick, Green Park Station, Hanover Square, London Underground, Medici Courtyard, Moorgate Station, New Bond Street, Oxford Street, Piccadilly Line, Shoes, Shopping, South Molton Street, Victoria Line, West End Of London