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DG
I am worried that the word 'bespoke' is creeping into your prose recently whereas previously it has only been used in inverted commas when quoting some of the absurd marketing e mails and web links you have received.
In todays post, it is totally within context, BUT I do wonder whether the language of the twenty something or thirty something marketing kiddo has rubbed off.
Here in Douglas IOM we now even have a car dealership called 'Bespoke Cars' selling bog standard cars, and that is when I finally, privately wept. Everything is bespoke nowadays, which is rather a contradiction.
Is it just me that hates the way this word has steamrollered into our lives in the last year?
BS | 06.03.19 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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@BS - 'BESPOKE CARS' should be a firm selling very old cars with spokes in their wheels. [off-topic klaxon]
Bob L-S | 06.03.19 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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The Victoria line always leaves me wonder how completely new route alignments can bring about dramatical changes to the way we travel. That said, it's rather depressing neither Crossrail nor Crossrail 2 seems to excite me as much in this manner, owing to their (partial) nature of duplicating existing Underground and NR lines. I do appreciate the capacity increases, to be fair. Maybe I'm just one of those silly guys who love to hold a crayon in hand and turn the tube map into a plate of spaghetti...
TommyL4 | 06.03.19 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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I always have a bit of a feeling of smug satisfaction when I remember the route from the tube platforms to the the ticket hall, and out to the street on Oxford Circus itself. (Not at peak times, obviously.)
martin | 06.03.19 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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When I first worked in the West End in the mid sixties I would alight at Oxford Circus and take the lift from the platform to street level and exit into Argyll Street, the old station was very small but did have a very handy toilet facility which is something that most stations these days are sadly lacking, I also remember very well the huge steel umbrella that was built over the junction and watched for what seemed liked an eternity whilst years of work took place, when the new ticket hall opened the old lifts had gone and although the lift shafts remained they were very soon converted at street level into a couple of very small take away food outlets.
fishislandskin | 06.03.19 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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The metal umbrella over the junction features in this wonderful 1969 BBC documentary, which DG has doubtless linked to before.
martin | 06.03.19 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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The Jubilee came to Green Park in the 1970s not the 1990s, as it was part of the original route to Charing Cross. According to your linked Wiki page there was some further work there for the extension in the 1990s but the double escalator was earlier.
dg writes: Fixed, thanks.
"twenty something or thirty something marketing kiddo" - would they be "spokespeople"?
Edwin | 06.03.19 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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DG's favourite bus the 25, which we used for years (RT's some with roofboxes no doubt passing the site where Bus stop M is now) often took us for an exciting ride over the umbrella. And yes we used to walk round the umbrella too. It was quite a narrow footway. Looking up, the traffic, especially buses, looked quite scary!
Rog | Homepage | 06.03.19 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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What's wrong with bespoke? DG is using it correctly (of course) and it's exactly the right term here.
When I was a kid my grandparents lived near Walthamstow Central. Staying with them and traveling on the tube were my earliest memories of visiting London. My brother taught me to identify all of the Victoria Line stations through their bespoke murals. I've forgotten most of them now.
Eric | 06.03.19 - 1:43 p.m. | #
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An interesting thing about the Green Park axonometric diagram is that it gives the relative depths of the platforms. As they are only 4m apart and the height of the platform tunnels also appears to be about 4m, it shows what a difficult job it must have been to thread it all together.
kev | 06.03.19 - 7:27 p.m. | #
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You didn't mention that the Hans Unger motifs at Green Park are not the originals, which I believe, had a dark green background. They were replaced during the 1980s, in a period of corporate madness by 'Golden Leaves'.
Similarly those at Oxford Circus, which were replaced by 'Snakes & Ladders'. All have now reverted back to copies of the originals.
IsarSteve | Homepage | 06.03.19 - 7:59 p.m. | #
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The new south entrance structure at Green Park is a thing of beauty. The fossil artwork is such a lovely thing to pass by. Take a moment to look at it when you are next there.
drD | 06.03.19 - 8:28 p.m. | #
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