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What a hideous place Grays sound - it really lives up to its name.
I really hate those "out of town" shopping centres you mention and I've noticed they're getting emptier and emptier and more and more vile.
I was in Feltham last weekend on a Saturday afternoon and the "shopping centre" - with pre-requisite Iceland, Boots, Kwik Save & Weatherspoons pub, was deserted.
Annie Mole | Homepage | 02.11.03 - 12:39 a.m. | #
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I know the story of Fenchurch St Station - well, I say know it, but it's total hearsay. Apparently, the person in charge of selecting famous London landmarks for the Monopoly board was not from London, and arrived here by train, at Fenchurch St, so assumed it was a station equal to Liverpool St, Victoria, Kings Cross, etc. A board game was born!
It might not be true, thinking back, but I so hope it is....
Vanessa, London, UK | Homepage | 02.11.03 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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He/she obviously must have been an American who came over here by boat - which landed at Southend or somewhere nearby.
Jag | Homepage | 02.11.03 - 4:59 p.m. | #
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Argh, the Fenchurch Street Line! My first six months in England were spent commuting from Shoeburyness to Regent Street (a two hour journey each way). Not the ideal introduction to English life...
BTW, did you check out the delights of the Tilbury Swamps? They say a great deal of inbreeding goes on round those parts.
Fi | Homepage | 02.11.03 - 10:09 p.m. | #
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As someone who lives in Southend, I can only say *why*? I wouldn't reccomend day trips here, and I wouldn't reccomend daytrips to Tilbury either. :P
Dan | 03.11.03 - 1:48 a.m. | #
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I love the idea of Fenchurch Street being an " obscure manline station"
Just the place to go if you are looking for an obscure man.
Peter | Homepage | 03.11.03 - 1:30 p.m. | #
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Speaking of Fenchurch Street and Monopoly, you MUST read 'Do Not Pass Go' by Tim Moore. He explores the streets featured in Monopoly, telling fascinating facts about them. It's very YOU. And very me.
David | Homepage | 03.11.03 - 4:50 p.m. | #
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Reaches to bookshelf...
Well, what do you know, Tim has the answer to why Fenchurch Street was immortalised in the game of Monopoly in the first place.
Apparently the four stations used on the board were the four London termini of the LNER railway - Marylebone, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.11.03 - 8:02 p.m. | #
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Just be glad you've never seen Fenchurch St. during rush hour. And also that you decided not to stop in Upminster. Fun fact of the day- an armada of chuggers used c2c's £1 offer to spread like vermin throughout Essex. cooler-than-thou guilt-inducing bastards the lot of them.
christophe | 09.11.03 - 3:15 a.m. | #
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Ah, I hate chuggers. They always get one of my icy stares. And I'm still desperately pleased with myself that I haven't blogged about them yet. Yet.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.11.03 - 3:27 a.m. | #
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