Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery, near Manchester

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Euston HS2 #8

by londonblogger

Being the second part on how Euston got a new tube entrance. This post features the actual work to build the new entrance itself. In the first part we looked at the long term preparation works – with a substantial part of that work involving the filling in of the old taxi rank entrance building […]

Tower Bridge: one thro' five

by londonblogger

Tower Bridge’s one-two-five (125th) anniversary is upon us and this post discusses the bridge’s ‘one thro’ five’ – a subject that’s never been written about! What’s that then? Its the furthest Tower Bridge can be seen from central London. Inevitably its a view straight down the the river through five main Thames crossings. The one […]

Euston HS2 #7

by londonblogger

Being the one about Euston’s new tube entrance and its a special two-part article. The entrance has been open nearly two months and a look is taken at how construction of the new entrance came about. A large part of it is actually work for HS2 thus any ‘improvements’ is essentially a misnomer. The old […]

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Helch – An update

The mysterious Helch continues to spread his word across London and the south of England. I did a small run on the trains/tube and found other examples of Helch’s work. I have posted these here. This fresh quest began because I wanted to capture the huge work which has been on the side of a […]

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A Euston station era ends

They haven’t closed Euston station – not yet! The HS2 machine is still marching on relentless however as reported sometime back it all depends on the Oakervee report. They were not actually planning on closing the station completely! Nevertheless things have met their end regardless and one of the bigger victims of HS2 was the […]