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Never knew about that place, that exhibition sounds really interesting too! Something else to add to my list of places I've discovered from this blog
Sounds great. I highly recommend reading Peter Ackroyd's London Under for more subterranean info.
I predict I will take a little longer than half an hour. LMA is a great place. I have the good fortune of being paid to research there as part of my job from time to time. I always have to watch I don't get distracted down many enticing byways when researching - it's like an internet, but made out of the actual stuff, in full hyper-HD clarity.

Thanks for the link to the fascinating Charles Pearson drawing. It has produced an interesting 'what-if' with the proposal to retain old Holborn Hill and put the Viaduct a block further south, along with ramming the new road through the Old Bailey. It wouldn't, however, have been registered as a valid Planning application these days, as he didn't mark the direction of north on the drawing.

There is a nice sense of the shadows of some of these ideas having come through, with the proposed central station being directly alongside what is now City Thameslink. Beam the visionary Pearson over to today, and he may even think that our age has made a really good go of his legacy.
It's this type of post that gets me to return time and again.
I will visit this exhibition in September when I visit the UK.
I haven't visited the LMA for a while now. Time to rectify it, thanks.
As a regular visitor to LMA may I point out that: "​All visitors who wish to access original material at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) will require a History Card" - details in their website.

You do not need a History Card to look at copies of documents in the Information Area, or to access online or microfiche/film resources.










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