Under one roof
SIR: We East Anglians are justifiably alarmed at the prospect of losing beloved Liverpool Street Station (August issue).
My father enjoyed recounting the tale of his mother’s gardener and two village worthies who ventured ‘up Lunnun’ in the early 1900s. They biked to Ipswich station to catch the early train and on their return to the pub that evening a crowd gathered, eager to know what ‘Lunnun’ was like. In those days few people had travelled far from their village.
Well, they said, there were hundreds of folks, some in a hurry, some just walking about and others sitting on benches. There were a lot of shops, a florist, newsagents, a pub, barbers, a large hotel and even public toilets.
When asked what sort of weather they had, they replied that they don’t have weather in ‘Lunnun’ because the whole place is covered in glass.
It transpired that they’d spent all day in Liverpool Street Station. David List, Bedingfield, Suffolk
