LIVERPOOL STREET STATION
Not being a railway buff, I've little to say here but, as usual with the stations, I spread my wings somewhat and end up in Chelsea with Elvis Costello playing in my head. Liverpool Street is the third busiest railway station in the UK, behind Waterloo and Victoria. There's a second statue on the station concourse .... At least four of the Kindertransport children became Nobel prize winners. Hamilton Hall, Bishopsgate My day begins with coffee (99p, bottomless) in the opulent surroundings of this showpiece Wetherspoons which was once the ballroom of the Great Eastern Hotel. The Victorian building is on the site of England’s first hospital for the mentally ill, the Bethlehem Royal Hospital . It opened in 1247 and became known as ‘Bedlam’. The Great Eastern feature...