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Post by class411 on Oct 26, 2023 12:44:31 GMT
Walking through Victoria (LU) yesterday, I remembered that, from the seventies until a few years back, there was a doorway, close to the steps leading to Victoria NR, from which the smell of cooked food frequently emanated.
There was no signage, and I was never close enough, when anyone entered or exited, to see inside.
The whole area has changed so dramatically that it's all but impossible to visualise its previous state.
Can anyone say if there was a staff canteen in that location?
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Post by selbiehouse on Oct 26, 2023 16:56:10 GMT
Ging back some years there was a peak-hour exit from the WB platform that came out at the northern end of Terminus Place. Cooking smell no doubt from adjacent cafe.
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Post by coyote on Oct 26, 2023 18:12:59 GMT
Walking through Victoria (LU) yesterday, I remembered that, from the seventies until a few years back, there was a doorway, close to the steps leading to Victoria NR, from which the smell of cooked food frequently emanated. There was no signage, and I was never close enough, when anyone entered or exited, to see inside. The whole area has changed so dramatically that it's all but impossible to visualise its previous state. Can anyone say if there was a staff canteen in that location? Yes there was one there, the entrance door was on the left just before ascending the stairs to the Kent side of the main line concourse. It was a BR canteen, very useful when working at Victoria, but I can’t remember when it closed. I will try to remember to check the door’s location next time I am passing through Victoria. |
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Post by class411 on Oct 27, 2023 8:32:29 GMT
Walking through Victoria (LU) yesterday, I remembered that, from the seventies until a few years back, there was a doorway, close to the steps leading to Victoria NR, from which the smell of cooked food frequently emanated. There was no signage, and I was never close enough, when anyone entered or exited, to see inside. The whole area has changed so dramatically that it's all but impossible to visualise its previous state. Can anyone say if there was a staff canteen in that location? Yes there was one there, the entrance door was on the left just before ascending the stairs to the Kent side of the main line concourse. It was a BR canteen, very useful when working at Victoria, but I can’t remember when it closed. I will try to remember to check the door’s location next time I am passing through Victoria. That's the one. It's completely changed now, of course. What were rooms are now part of the open concourse. One of the reasons (apart from the cooking smell), that I assumed it was a canteen was that the doors were very obviously not locked unlike other 'staff only' doors. |
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Post by dmncf on Oct 28, 2023 20:27:18 GMT
Ging back some years there was a peak-hour exit from the WB platform that came out at the northern end of Terminus Place. Cooking smell no doubt from adjacent cafe. Wow - I don't think I ever saw that. Where on the WB Circle & District platform was this exit, and where did it exit into Terminus Place? |
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Post by towerman on Oct 28, 2023 21:16:46 GMT
Is the deli in Terminus Place by the District entrance still there?Used to get a great liver sausage sandwich there.
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