Liverpool Street station Essays

  • The Kindertransport

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    like wildfire. As soon as my parents heard about what happened in Germany they knew it would not be long until it erupted into a war. Within the next week arrangements were made to transport me to England as an asylum. We were dropped off at Liverpool Street Station in London on a bright sunny afternoon, wearing our numbers so the volunteer families could find the children they were assigned to. After about 30 minutes of people bustling around and gathering children, I was left with 11 other children

  • Christmas

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    A few days before Christmas, Oxford street is swarming with last minute shoppers, laden with parcels and bags. Christmas is the highlight for many people, especially little childen, from as tall as your ankle to as tall as your knee. Small todlers were moaning and disappearing into the clothes racks like magicians disappearing in a puff of smoke entertaining the gullible audiences. Families and friends gradually emerge from clogged buses and congested trains, tired, exhausted and hungry

  • Rail Termini of London

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    transport by train was developed. Some of London’s most important rail stations were developed at this time creating an extensive network of rails that would stretch in all directions from London to the rest of England and are still very active today. Euston Station Although the present station building is in the International Modern style, Euston was the first inter-city rail station built in London. The original station looked very different than the current structure. Its Greek Revival Doric

  • Janet Cardiff: The Missing Voice

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    Janet Cardiff: The Missing Voice (Case Study B) Janet Cardiff’s The Missing Voice was an audio walk that began in the Whitechapel Gallery and ended in the Liverpool Street station. It was by far the most exquisite experience in my life especially because I have never heard anything like it before. Cardiff’s piece takes you into a narrative that shifts through time and space. Seductive and intimate, Cardiff’s audio walk was something psychologically absorbing and definitely made me feel as if I

  • Introduction to Slater's

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    employer, with 150 men and women working from eight separate sites. Today Slater's reputation for quality, service and customer satisfaction extends far and wide with customers regularly travelling to the town from as far afield as Manchester, Liverpool and North-West England. [IMAGE] Slaters has long embraced ground-breaking ideas designed to help their customers even in the very early days. Colin Knowlson, Managing Director, explains: "Motorists needs were very different in

  • Jane Jacobs

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    notion of Garden Cities by Ebenezer Howard and the radiant city idea of Le Corbusier, which both dominated the forward thinking at the time, contending that they lack a clear understanding of how cities actually function. Corbusier’s idea was that streets were deemed bad and proposed a strict, totalitarian idea full of symmetry and high rise buildings. Ebenezer Howard concluded cities as a whole were bad “he hated the city and thought it an outright evil” (pg. 17), and

  • The De-industrialisation and Regeneration of the Merseyside Region

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    traditional manufacturing areas. Liverpool first developed as a small port concerned with fishing and trade with Ireland. However, it’s location on the West coast, on the Irish Sea meant that the port grew throughout the 18th century due to the increase in trade with North America and the West Indies, and the decline of the port in the nearby city of Chester. The first wet dock in Great Britain was established here and throughout the 19th century Liverpool became the main port in Britain

  • Gum Shop Business Essay

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    Index Executive Summary This report “feasibility” identifying a new startup “business, plan or idea” of drinking a bubble gum tea while playing a claw machine on Middlesex street. This project will target students and employees in this specific area from Liverpool street till Aldgate. The goal/objective of the business is to satisfy the customer pain by offering them a new kind of tea while “gambling” in a short time and cheap price. Based on our survey … got the highest percentage of%. The Pest

  • Train Station Essay

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    An outline of train station and its prospects A train station can also be called as various forms that include depot, railroad station or railway station, which is a railway amenity where trains routinely stop to load or unload traveller or freight. It typically consumes at least one track side portal and a station constructing, offering such ancillary services as waiting rooms and ticket sales. If a station is on a single track line, it probably has a passing sequence to serve traffic movements

  • London Bombing Research Paper

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    Around an hour later at 9.50am a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square near Kings Cross. The bombs were homemade and organic peroxide-based devices packed into backpacks that caused the explosions. One was detonated just outside Liverpool Street station, the other outside Edgware Road, the third between Kings Cross and Russell Square and the last caused by a similar device to the ones used on the underground on top of a double-decker bus.

  • Haringey Rioting

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    family received no information about his death until a day and a half later, when the news arrived to them through the media. The police did not inform the family about the events. On the 6th August, the family marched down to the Tottenham Police Station to protest about not being informed as well as to get some answers about what had actually happened. This peaceful vigil resulted in two police cars getting

  • Cultural Impact of the Railway of Victorian England

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    trains traveled at the pace of 3.5 miles per hour, significantly slower than the horse drawn coach which traveled at a speed of 9-10 miles per hour. According to Jack Simmons in his book, The Railway in England and Wales, 1840-1914, the Manchester-Liverpool line is notable to mention because it did three things no other railway to date had: 1) all traction was mechanical for the first time; 2) the Company carried both passengers and freight; and 3) the linkage of two commercial towns was exceptional

  • Jacques Austerlitz Research Paper

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    Jacques Austerlitz, the eponymous character of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, displays many of the characteristic signs of a traumatized subject: he is sensitive to the suffering and captivity of others, he continually experiences uncanny feelings in his surroundings, his perception of time is fractured, and he finds himself following inexplicable inner compulsions. All these aspects of trauma are reflected in his perception of the architectural structures and landscapes that he studies. In fact, as Austerlitz

  • Analyse Tidal Lagoon Essay

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    more than 236,000 tonnes of CO2 each year. And if the tidal lagoon is a success it will create more than an estimated 1,900 jobs within Swansea. There are also plans to create an additional 4 more tidal lagoons within the UK in various places like Liverpool Bay and North Wales, when all 5 are constructed and are fully operational it could possibly make up a 10th of the UK’s electricity needs, this would be a great benefit for the UK and all the residents that live here. The Lagoon would also have a

  • Case Study Of The Coffee Palace

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    from work or those who are out for a drive. According to a Market Assessment Research 2013 by extension coffee shops, have become embedded in UK lifestyles, with many UK consumers drinking more than two cups of coffee every day. Moreover many high-street coffee shops are full from opening to close with long queues at peak time (Hacker, 2013). The business also seeks to capture consumers or those in restricted environment or where refreshments stands are an integral part of the environment. One of

  • Regeneration Of Slough Essay

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    This report is about the regeneration of Slough’s town centre, and would cover the challenges faced by UK town centre’s, relevance of place branding and vision making, evolution of Slough’s regeneration and the challenges ahead. It was once a thriving industrial town, but Slough, today, in many ways, resembles an urban wasteland and is a poster child for serious discourse on the dynamics of urban regeneration, especially since the local authorities are currently embarked on an urban regeneration

  • Newton Heath Football Club Essay

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    Manchester Piccadilly railway station for fifteen years, before moving to Bank Street in the nearby town of Clayton in 1893. The club had entered the Football League the previous year and began to sever its links with the rail depot, becoming an independent company, appointing a club secretary and dropping the "L&YR" from their name to become simply Newton Heath F.C.. Not long afterwards, in 1902, the club neared bankruptcy, with debts of over £2500. At one point, their Bank Street

  • Adolf Eichmann

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    realize that although the holocaust was ultimately Hitler’s vision, it was in fact, the creation of Adolf Eichmann. Bibliography: Works Cited Harel, Isser. The House on Garlbaldi Street. New York: The Viking Press. 1975. Hausner, Gideon. Justice in Jerusalem. New York: Harper & Row. 1966. Liverpool, Lord Russell of. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1963. Papadatos, Peter. The Eichmann Trial. New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc. 1964. Shirer

  • Nature And Nature In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    taken devastating events during his life that caused him to be the way that he is. Heathcliff had been abandoned as a child. No one knows what became of his parents and why he was an orphan. All that is known is that he was a gypsy child on the streets of Liverpool without parents. Being an orphan, Heathcliff held neither family ties nor status nor land. Heathcliff was thought to be at the bottom of the food chain, yet Mr. Earnshaw had taken Heathcliff in as his own child. Heathcliff was the favored child

  • Wuthering Heights Otherness

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    upholds the test of time, “otherness” as portrayed in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights expands itself beyond the inflicted outcasting of title character Heathcliff to include an examination of “otherness” in both love and creation. Found on the streets of Liverpool and brought back to live at Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s outsider status is determined before it begins. The slurs that society deems fit to label him with are not deserved through Heathcliff’s character, but that of preconceived