In article , John Shelley wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:45:39 on Mon,
25 Jul 2005, Clive D. W. Feather
remarked:
in the middle the "Post Office" after which today's St Paul's
station was originally named. The station building itself is shown
to the north of Newgate St; today probably in the middle of a
traffic island next to the entrance to the BT HQ.

Isn't it now the "Dental Centre" just beside the church?

I'm going by aerial photos that show a much enlarged road junction,
with a large triangular traffic island to the west. (View from north).

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/postoffice.jpg

If the old map is accurate, and the station building was next to the
original alignment of Newgate Street, then the station would surely be
under the traffic island, or the road between the island and the
church.

In London's Secret Tubes, Andrew Emmerson & Tony Beard published by Capital
Transport Publishing Post Office Station is referred to on page 104 in
reference to the late 30's rebuilding.

start quote
Two years later a new entrance was created.........
The old booking hall and lifts at a point several hundered yards west on the
corner of Newgate St and King Edward St were closed.....
end quote
There are a couple of pictures of the bomb damaged station building and a
reference to Oct 1999 London Railway Record (No.21) which confirms the
location as at the junction and has a few pictures of the building.

"Rails Through the Clay" mentions the deep shelters, for which the old station
entrance may have provided access, but says the one at St Pauls was abandoned
part-built because of fears for the foundations of the cathedral. The deep
shelter at Chancery Lane was built. It became the GPO's Kingsway Trunk
Exchange, using the original station entrance.

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Jock Mackirdy
Bedford