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Your paragraph on Braham Street and Aldgate reminded me of the Aldgate Barrs underground shops which are no longer there.
Max Wellhouse | 20.09.12 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Lovely. I shall print off your guide and do this one myself. Thanks.
CornishCockney | 20.09.12 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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Aldgate Barrs, wow that's a blast from the past...
s | 20.09.12 - 10:32 a.m. | #
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My idea of the City was all shiny office blocks, I'm surprised how scruffy parts of it are!
Laura | 20.09.12 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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Aldgate Barrs was an experiment, perhaps the only shopping centre of its type, some stations eg Old St have various small shops on the below ground approaches but Aldgate Barrs was intended to be much larger with branches of national multiples, unfortunately the shoppers didn't realise the shops were there.
amber | 20.09.12 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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I had a job interview in Broadgate Tower.
There are colour coded escalators from the main lobby, leading to specific lifts, depending on your destination floor.
The lifts don't have floor buttons inside: you must choose your floor on a touch screen before entering, and then it tells you which lift to take.
Once you've made it to the office floors, the views are just stunning, thanks to the full-height windows.
Greg | 20.09.12 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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These three consecutive posts rank among my favourites from this blog in recent memory. I too shall have to print them off and follow the trail (not having a smart phone or anything). Many thanks DG.
Richard M | 21.09.12 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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@Amber: the shoppers didn't know about it, but we girls from the secondary school 5 mins down the road knew all about it, it was great having this gleaming space pretty much to ourselves during free lessons. Deserted local posh shopping centres seem to be a recurring theme in my teens (see also Tobacco Docks).
Generally the centre summed up the divided world we lived in, in the heart of the East End. Aldgate and Aldgate East marked invisible boundaries that we just didn't cross, and so for all we knew, past these stations was territory where 'there be dragons'... (of which I now know there are many!)
s | 21.09.12 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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There was a link in this week's b3ta newsletter about the City of London.
It's an interesting 5 minute snippet and there's a link to the second part on the youtube site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Andrew | 21.09.12 - 8:57 p.m. | #
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@s; Tobacco Dock was part of the redevelopment of Docklands in the early 80s, Covent Garden Market had recently been turned into a shopping centre with small upmarket shops in a listed building and Tobacco Dock followed this trend, unfortunately unlike Covent Garden and later the Royal Exchange there were never enough potential shoppers in the area to make it viable. So you and your friends had a great place to hang out in, but that didn't really help the developers.
amber | 22.09.12 - 3:15 p.m. | #
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