"Matthew Malthouse" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Cast_Iron wrote:
} Matthew Malthouse wrote:
} 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.
}
} Are you capable?

What is this? Jump on Matthew week?

Please, don't take such things personally. some people like jumping on
anyone and everyone. :-)