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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 20:47:19 GMT
Can anyone help please, regarding the 'elephant', which apparently used to be at or close by the Elephant & Castle Underground station entrance (C&SLR or BS&WR?)
I guess it isn't still there - when was it removed, and does it still exist?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by John Tuthill on Dec 21, 2014 21:24:00 GMT
Can anyone help please, regarding the 'elephant', which apparently used to be at or close by the Elephant & Castle Underground station entrance (C&SLR or BS&WR?) I guess it isn't still there - when was it removed, and does it still exist? Thanks in advance. I stand corrected, but is it the one which now stands outside the shopping centre? |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Dec 21, 2014 21:37:03 GMT
This one? goo.gl/maps/KKMs1The area, and the shopping centre of which it is a part, is being redeveloped so it may have been removed, either temporarily or for good. I always forget which station is which - it is easier to change between them underground than walk to the right one on the surface anyway, but I think the entrance closer to the shopping centre is the original CSLR one - the other entrance is more in its original style, which as a typical Leslie Green is clearly a Yerkes tube station and therefore BSWR rather than CSLR |
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Post by Chris M on Dec 21, 2014 21:51:01 GMT
The elephant was still there outside the shopping centre last time I was at Elephant and Castle, which would be September.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 23:13:56 GMT
Thanks folks. Much appreciated.
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 21, 2014 23:52:39 GMT
It was the name of a pub. The 'castle' was a howdah on the back of the elephant.
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Post by melikepie on Dec 22, 2014 0:31:25 GMT
Why was the pub called The Elephant and Castle?
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Post by theblackferret on Dec 22, 2014 7:42:29 GMT
Why was the pub called The Elephant and Castle? Most likely is that the area round there was once a hive of small industries, including some master cutlers, whose craft-guild emblem was the elephant and castle. |
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Post by John Tuthill on Dec 22, 2014 9:34:32 GMT
Why was the pub called The Elephant and Castle? Most likely is that the area round there was once a hive of small industries, including some master cutlers, whose craft-guild emblem was the elephant and castle. The Worshipful Company of Cutlers. Doesn't sound so romantic as 'La Infanta Di Castilla'  |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Dec 22, 2014 10:45:22 GMT
The pub in question had previously been the Guild Hall of the Master Cutlers, and the pub was named after the sign.
And if an elephnat seems an odd symbol for the cutlers to adopt, the material of choice for knife handles used to be ivory.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Dec 22, 2014 11:03:46 GMT
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