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[Lizzie_Zoom]

On another thread I started to go into the sad affair of the loss of the Euston Arch in London during 1961/2, against many protests to preserve it when the then new Euston - 1960s monstrosity - station was to be built.  This was a great loss to part of London's railway history, and some thought it had gone forever.

However, there has been a big movement to rebuild the arch using 60% at least of the original that was discovered by an historian dumped to fill a hole in a London river!!:

Please read down through this link for details:
http://www.eustonarch.org/history.html#7


This is what the Euston Arch originally looked like when I was a child, but it was demolished in 1961/1962 - NOTE the cars; can you name them?? :




Now though as I have stated the intention is to rebuild the arch.  It is intended this will be done when eventually a new Euston Station is built:

http://www.eustonarch.org/

.........................and this is the fantastic new vision for the rebuilt Euston Arch:



Please feel free to sign up to support this campaign, and perhaps even donate to it!

[unlucky alf]

well youve got a morris 1000, a black cab, & is that a standard vanguard?, & the convertable looks like a sunbeam talbot, but im probably wrong!, & the one in the background i cant see properly!. :-/

[Lizzie_Zoom]

well youve got a morris 1000, a black cab, & is that a standard vanguard?, & the convertable looks like a sunbeam talbot, but im probably wrong!, & the one in the background i cant see properly!. :-/

Well done Alf!   Although the Sunbeam is the one I am stuck on, as there were a few cars going around at the time that looked like those.  As for the Standard Vanguard, my driving instructor in 1970 still owned one of them.  A lovely car to ride in

[unlucky alf]

just turned my brightness up, & is the one under the arches a humber? :-/

[Lizzie_Zoom]

just turned my brightness up, & is the one under the arches a humber? :-/

A Humber Super Snipe?  Could well be Alf, although it is a dark photo and they seem similar to the black taxies!!

[omegod]

well youve got a morris 1000, a black cab, & is that a standard vanguard?, & the convertable looks like a sunbeam talbot, but im probably wrong!, & the one in the background i cant see properly!. :-/

Well done Alf!   Although the Sunbeam is the one I am stuck on, as there were a few cars going around at the time that looked like those.  As for the Standard Vanguard, my driving instructor in 1970 still owned one of them.  A lovely car to ride in

Ooer missus!!

I heard they found all the rubble a few years ago, should definately be rebuilt!!

[Sixstring]

My Dad (with a good magnifying glass) says its a Humber Super Snipe.

Well done!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

My Dad (with a good magnifying glass) says its a Humber Super Snipe.

Well done!!

Thanks SS

[hercules]

i went round the york railway museum on sunday,i like the free entry(but £7 to park )anyway we got to the royal carriages and my mother outlaw said so that was the luxury then to which when youi look at them it would be luxury by todays standards..one had a bath

[Lizzie_Zoom]

i went round the york railway museum on sunday,i like the free entry(but £7 to park )anyway we got to the royal carriages and my mother outlaw said so that was the luxury then to which when youi look at them it would be luxury by todays standards..one had a bath

True H!

[dad1uk]

The other end of the line was in Birmingham and here is the our terminal.



Standing empty at the moment after a chequered history but rumoured to be the terminus for the proposed new High Speed Railway line.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

The other end of the line was in Birmingham and here is the our terminal.



Standing empty at the moment after a chequered history but rumoured to be the terminus for the proposed new High Speed Railway line.

Thanks DadUK1!

Lovely picture of a building I never knew existed.  You can certainly see the connection with the old Euston and in particular the Arch 8-) 8-)

Wouldn't it be great if it could be re-used for a new high speed line terminus, and down in London the Arch is rebuilt!

[dad1uk]

Lizzie after years of standing derelict it was cleaned up  by I think the Princes Trust but alas it only short lived. It would be wonderful if it was restored, and the proposed Euston Arch looks a lot better than whats there at the moment!

[razzo]

Here you go peeps
remains of the Arch being dredged from the River




and channel 4's Dan Cruickshank with some of the stones in the barge behind him



as i understand it some of the stones are in a garden in South London/ Kent borders & the owner is not willing to give them up  :-?

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Here you go peeps
remains of the Arch being dredged from the River




and channel 4's Dan Cruickshank with some of the stones in the barge behind him



as i understand it some of the stones are in a garden in South London/ Kent borders & the owner is not willing to give them up  :-?

What's the address??!!    I'll make him an offer he can't refuse

Great pictures!! 8-) 8-) 8-)