On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:01:34 +0100 Dave wrote:
} Matthew Malthouse writes
} } How dare they call that station Chancery Lane
} }
} } Nowhere flippin near it
}
} 177 meters from it.
}
} But it makes me curious, why did it get named Chancery Lane rather than
} Grey's Inn Road at the foot of which it stands?
}
} The current entrance to Chancery Lane is not the station's original
} entrance - it was re-sited when escalators were installed back in the
} 1930s. As I'm sure you can appreciate, lifts go directly up and down
} and escalators don't - so a new entrance might have to be situated quite
} some distance away from the original. This was done more recently at
} Angel, where the new entrance is about 100m away from the old entrance.

Haha! Thank you. I didn't know that the station entrance wasn't the
original, although I should have thought of it.

Matthew
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