How Does Liverpool Street Shape Up?
I needed to get my ticket for Ipswich for later in the day, so I travelled S Class to one of London’s busiest stations; Liverpool Street.
It was fairly quiet, but the litter levels outside were worst than at Kings Cross.
Note the clock on the front of the station, which is placed so you can see it, as you walk from the City.
When they talk about good stations, they always seem to forget Liverpool Street, as it was created in its present state in the 1990s when few were interested and it is very much a commuter station. It’s also effectively my local terminus and I often use it for shopping and collecting tickets.
you might do a few things differently today, but in many ways it was a very good updating of a Victorian station. You notice how good it is, when you arrive in the station at a far from busy time. Like at the New Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations, you walk in natural daylight to the barriers and onward to your destination or bus or Underground to get there. Compare liverpool Street to the dreaded Eusless.
Is This Enough Clocks?
The number of clocks here, showing the time around the world could be considered excessive.
Is This Enough Clocks?
But I think it’s a good display.
I took this picture from a 277 bus, which was easiest way to get back from Canary Wharf, as being Open House weekend, there was engineering works on the DLR and the Northern line.
A Sad Clock
There is no other title to this picture.
A Sad Clock
I hope when the property is refurbished, they give the clock a makeover.
A Cafe In Liverpool
Liverpool generally doesn’t do boring and there is nothing boring about this cafe.
A Cafe In Liverpool
It is actually in the Victoria Building of Liverpool University, which gave red brick universities, their name.
But the interior is a superb example of Victorian excess, in what is now the Victoria Gallery and Museum.
I particularly liked the clock.
The Clock
The food and drink is not too bad either.
There Are Three Clocks At Piccadilly Circus Station
Piccadilly Circus station, must be the one with most clocks in the booking office and ticket checking area.
There Are Three Clocks At Piccadilly Circus Station
The oicture shows the one by the booking office.
One of the staff told me it is for heritage reasons.
One Of The Few Clocks In London
There are very few clocks in London. But this one on St. Pauls is very visible.
One Of The Few Clocks In London
Except for Big Ben and the clock on Shell-Mex House, it must be one of the few visible from the river.
No Clocks In Terminal Five
Terminal Five at Heathrow doesn’t seem to have any clocks.
There wasn’t even one in Carluccio’s in Departures.
Surely a few obvious clocks, would help people get to their plane on time.
If You Need To Know The Time Ask A Liver Bird
If you walk out of the station and cross the road to St. George’s Hall, you will see the massive clock on the landward side of the Liver Building.
If You Need To Know The Time Ask A Liver Bird
The Liver Building clocks are visible from a large part of the city centre and is there another city, from where a clock can be seen from so many places? The clock faces are after all, larger than those on Big Ben.
A Station With Twin Clocks
Is Liverpool Lime Street station, one of the few where you are greeted two large clocks?
But then Liverpool loves its big clocks and seems to have more than most cities.
I went to the Second City today, to see two unique exhibitions; the revealing of the floor in St. George’s Hall and the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Tate Liverpool.
An Excellent Brand Name
I was walking up the Narrow Way in Hackney and this coffee van was parked by St. Augustine’s Tower.
An Excellent Brand Name
I hope the coffee is as good as the name.
There surely is scope for CoffeeE17 etc.
Incidentally, the tower has a working 16th century clock. There can’t be many that are older.
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