John Betjeman on Liverpool St Station, c1961, Photograph by David Sim

Please come to our SAVE LIVERPOOL ST STATION campaign event at 7pm on Tuesday 7th November at Hanbury Hall, 22 Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Speakers include Griff Rhys Jones, Eric Reynolds and Robert Thorne.

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This is the Liverpool St Station of living memory – the station as I first knew it – recorded in these splendid photographs from the collection of the Bishopsgate Institute.

A vital transport hub through two world wars and, most significantly, the point of arrival for the Kindertransport, children fleeing nazi Germany, this is the station that John Betjeman fought to save, winning a landmark conservation battle which gave us the sensitively restored station of recent years.

At the end of this post, I append my photographs of the beautiful station as we know it today with its luminous marble floor refracting the morning light from the lancet windows high above.

Glass was removed from the roof in World War II

Photograph by Malcolm Tremain

Photograph by David Johnston

Photograph by David Johnston

Photograph by David Johnston

Photograph by David Johnston

Photograph by The Gentle Author

Photograph by The Gentle Author

Photograph by The Gentle Author

Photograph by The Gentle Author

Photographs courtesy Bishopsgate Institute

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