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.
--
Roland Perry

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.


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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.

--

Jock Mackirdy
Bedford

In article , Roland
Perry writes
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?

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.

Annoyingly, I'm not going to be visiting that BT office for a few weeks,
but I'll keep my eyes open when I do.

In the meanwhile, let me point at
http://www.davros.org/rail/lobo/cards/postoffice.html

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In message , at 06:42:03 on Thu, 4
Aug 2005, Clive D. W. Feather remarked:
In the meanwhile, let me point at
http://www.davros.org/rail/lobo/cards/postoffice.html

That's the old Post Office, not the station though.
--
Roland Perry

"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
...
Annoyingly, I'm not going to be visiting that BT office for a few weeks,
but I'll keep my eyes open when I do.

The site of the old station is not hard to spot - there's a massive
fan-tower in the middle of the road system which sits atop the old lift
shafts.

In message , at 14:43:24 on Thu, 4 Aug
2005, David Splett remarked:
The site of the old station is not hard to spot - there's a massive
fan-tower in the middle of the road system which sits atop the old lift
shafts.

It's the old station building that we've been concentrating on. Is that
still in existence, and if so, what does it look like now?
--
Roland Perry

In article , Roland Perry
wrote:
In message , at 14:43:24 on Thu, 4 Aug
2005, David Splett remarked:
The site of the old station is not hard to spot - there's a massive
fan-tower in the middle of the road system which sits atop the old lift
shafts.

It's the old station building that we've been concentrating on. Is that
still in existence, and if so, what does it look like now?

The station building was in a corner of the GPO's Central Telegraph Office,
which was bomb-damaged in WWII and semi-derelict when I last saw it in the
late 1960s. The vent shafts were obviously a later replacement when the
building was demolished and the road layout changed.

--

Jock Mackirdy
Bedford

In message , at 09:27:32 on Sat, 6
Aug 2005, Jock Mackirdy remarked:
The site of the old station is not hard to spot - there's a massive
fan-tower in the middle of the road system which sits atop the old lift
shafts.

It's the old station building that we've been concentrating on. Is that
still in existence, and if so, what does it look like now?

The station building was in a corner of the GPO's Central Telegraph Office,
which was bomb-damaged in WWII and semi-derelict when I last saw it in the
late 1960s. The vent shafts were obviously a later replacement when the
building was demolished and the road layout changed.

Thanks. Clive thinks the building is still there, next to the church. I
suspect I may divert and have a look for myself next time I'm in town.

(One of the reasons it's interesting, apart from the tube, is that
distances "from London" were measured from here - rather than Charing
Cross as many people think. And it's almost - but not quite, according
to my current map - the southern end of the A1.)
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:27:32 on Sat, 6
Aug 2005, Jock Mackirdy remarked:
The station building was in a corner of the GPO's Central Telegraph Office,
which was bomb-damaged in WWII and semi-derelict when I last saw it in the
late 1960s. The vent shafts were obviously a later replacement when the
building was demolished and the road layout changed.

Thanks. Clive thinks the building is still there, next to the church. I
suspect I may divert and have a look for myself next time I'm in town.

(One of the reasons it's interesting, apart from the tube, is that
distances "from London" were measured from here - rather than Charing
Cross as many people think.

I think you are mistaken:

http://rodcorp.typepad.com/photos/va...on_mileage.jpg

Dave