Editor's London Photo Quiz: can you identify this building!

[lang rabbie]

Old Euston Station booking hall?

Bah! The man's got it!

A pedant writes:

Strictly, no. The Great Hall was never a booking office - it was a vestibule.

There were two booking offices off the Great Hall in PC Hardwick's building of 1849. There is an engraving of the balcony level of one the booking offices
at http://www.victorianlondon.org/transport/eustonstation.htm, which also has a bigger engraving of the Great Hall.

A new booking office was constructed in 1913.

 

[lang rabbie]

It does look nice, and a shame that it was toyally demolished.

That said, it doesn't look like it would be very efficient zone for commuter throughput.

There was a thread on this, complete with illustrations including a photomontage of the proposed 1990s rebuilding of the Euston Arch* on the Euston Road, but it got culled.

*not an arch actually, but a Propylaeum as it was wholly Greek in Design! Definition of Propylaeum: a monumental entrance to a sacred enclosure, group of buildings, or citadel. A roofed passage terminated by a row of columns at each end formed the usual type.

 

[boohoo]

The stones for the old Euston Arch were discovered in the River Lea some years ago - it could be rebuilt.

If they can find Temple bar and put it back into the London landscape, then I don't see why they find a home for the grand Euston arch (though I don't think it looks very arch like! -pediments, columns - not arch)

 

[lang rabbie]

I can't find an "anonymised" source for a good image of this one - also demolished in the 1960s

 

[the B]

The giveaway...

Old Euston Station booking hall?

Do I win a prize?

And it's so rubbish looking now. What a shame...

 

[Pickman's model]

I can't find an "anonymised" source for a good image of this one - also demolished in the 1960s

http://www.invaluable.com/_lotimages/1121905/FULL/232.jpg

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/aa9/aa98_05967.jpg

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/aa9/aa98_05966.jpg

pentonville prison?

<editor: post edited. Pickman's: please don't repost three big images just to add a one line comment. Thanks>

 

[davesgcr]

The old Coal Exchange I think ....

Demolished ?

 

[zenie]

The old Coal Exchange I think ....

Demolished ?

Perhaps the title at the bottom of the painting gives it away a bit

 

[oneflewover]

The old Coal Exchange I think ....

The same architect? Leeds Corn Exchange

 

[perplexis]

Can anyone identify this well known street?

nick1181's pic

Is it real?
It looks like the intro to Fritz Lang's Metropolis which is
:bemused:

eta: beaten to it, but I was right...

 

[exosculate]

I despair at the old buildings destroyed by our nice developer friends, a process still going on.

Lest we forget - slum clearances account for more destruction than WW2 bombers.

 

[Velouria]

I despair at the old buildings destroyed by our nice developer friends, a process still going on.

Lest we forget - slum clearances account for more destruction than WW2 bombers.

On a tangent (dont'cha love tangents? ), Dundee, a major east coast port (at the time) near several military airfields and with a population of around 180,000 at the time, got bombed ONCE during the war (and that was a bomber getting rid of unused bombs on his way back from Glasgow). It wasn't until the 1960s that the council began demolishing all the old buildings and built two massive ugly breezeblock/concrete shopping centres in their place. Both of Dunde's architecturally stunning major stations (cause of privately run railways, there were three of them) were also demolished around the same time and resited to the smallest, 4 platform station, which itself was torn down and rebuilt using the ugliest materials possible.

Then:

Now:

Ugh

 

[Stobart Stopper]

What's this?

 

[the B]

A polce station... somewhere... judging by the blue boards...

 

[innit]

...looks a lot like the police station in Bow to me.

 

[gawkrodger]

cop shop at homerton?

 

[exosculate]

On a tangent (dont'cha love tangents? ), Dundee, a major east coast port (at the time) near several military airfields and with a population of around 180,000 at the time, got bombed ONCE during the war (and that was a bomber getting rid of unused bombs on his way back from Glasgow). It wasn't until the 1960s that the council began demolishing all the old buildings and built two massive ugly breezeblock/concrete shopping centres in their place. Both of Dunde's architecturally stunning major stations (cause of privately run railways, there were three of them) were also demolished around the same time and resited to the smallest, 4 platform station, which itself was torn down and rebuilt using the ugliest materials possible.

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That is awful.

 

[lang rabbie]

The old Coal Exchange I think ....
Demolished ?

Yes... for the widening of Lower Thames Street in the City.

 

[zenie]

What's this?

Is that down Walworth Road?

*Probably completly wrong*

 

[lang rabbie]

The same architect? Leeds Corn Exchange

No - London's Coal Exchange was designed by the City Architect, a chap called James Bunstone Bunning - who was also the architect of the original Holloway prison and this one...

Leeds Coal Exchange is a great building by Leeds' own local hero, Cuthbert Broderick (another great name for an archetypal Victorian )