Stairway to Heaven - Bethnal Green

[toblerone3]

It's just occurred to me that such a giant memorial to people dying on the stairs at a station might not be the thing you want to see every time you go down the stairs to that station - it's not as if you can avoid it.

I think thats part of the power behind the idea. But I don't think it sends the right message.

Wonder what the relatives of those that died think of it.

 

[5t3IIa]

My eyes are drawn to the plaque on the wall everytime I go down the stairs. I saw the Kings X Fire plaque and clock the other day - that's pretty subtle...

Seem like they've got planning permission so now all they need is the money. I am broadly supportive. I don't think it's in *bad* taste really.

 

[5t3IIa]

The whole station entrance area has got much too much street clutter as it is. Could really do with a complete redesign. New angles are interesting but to be honest it doesn't really look good from any angle. I think the whole thing is wrong. Quite ugly.

It hasn't really. There is pavement, railings on the park side and railings next to the stairway, plus the gateposts to the park and the crossing. Nothing extraneous going on there at all.

 

[cybertect]

IWonder what the relatives of those that died think of it.

I just emailed my mum to see what she thinks.

I'm not aware we had family involved in the incident, but her parents were living in Bethnal Green at the time it happened and I think she may have returned from being evacuated by 1943.

 

[STFC]

I think it's horrendous. Who decided on some upside down stairs to commemorate people crushed to death on a stairwell? It would be like having a sculpture of a backpack as a memorial to those killed on 07/07/2005.

I would be a bit uneasy walking under it, too.