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If you have ever been to London you will know the vicinity of the incident and appreciate how much the city has changed. It was at the end of Oxford Street whe
by Theodores 5y ago
If you have ever been to London you will know the vicinity of the incident and appreciate how much the city has changed.
It was at the end of Oxford Street where it meets Tottenham Court Road. Considerable investment in the Thameslink underground station has gone on there recently. There is also the Centrepoint Tower. The streetscape is a world away from having breweries with product left to mature for a year in vast vats. Also having slums. If you had one of those original slum houses in that spot today, you could sell it and never work again.
In this story there is good and bad in terms of how our inner cities have changed. Actual industry in the city centre is quaint but I imagine the air quality - that area is nowadays some of the worst in the UK - was no better.
- zeristor 5y agoDiagonally across from there was the old Cross & Blackwell factory, they found jars when prepping for Crossrail. I’ve tracked my ancestors to living in the Denmark Street Rookery in the 1880s, history becomes more vivid when you have skin in the game.