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Monument of railway age to be rebuilt with a nightclub inside
Sri Carmichael, Consumer Affairs Reporter23 Sep 2009
A nightclub and banqueting hall are to be built inside a reconstructed Victorian monument at Euston station under plans announced today.
The Euston Arch stood in front of the station from 1838 until it was demolished by modernist town planners in 1962.
Its stones were thrown into a tributary of the river Lee in east London. British Waterways has dredged the channel to salvage the discarded rock on behalf of the Euston Arch Trust as it carries out repair work to the waterways around the 2012 Olympic site.
Now the trust has unveiled a £10 million design to rebuild the 70ft arch on the original site with a nightclub in the foundations and lifts rising up the pillars to the banqueting hall, seating 80. Buses and taxis will be able to drive through it.
Historian Dan Cruickshank, who has led a 15-year campaign to reconstruct the monument, described it as "the first great building of the railway age".
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Sincere thanks and congratulations to Dan Cruickshank & his colleagues.
- John, Bury, Lancs., 24/09/2009 23:27
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Good news! I have always thought it an enormous shame that the Euston Arch was demolished. Thank goodness John Betjeman managed to force them to relinquish their grasp on St Pancras station, which was also due to be razed to the ground.
- Mcw, London, 24/09/2009 09:22
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Fantastic news. Can we bulldoze the ugly station and build something nicer too. Great news though.
- Dave, London, 23/09/2009 20:46
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Fantastic and wonderful! The barbarism of 1962 is being put right. Euston Station will regain some class.
- Phil Jones, London UK, 23/09/2009 14:42
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How exciting...how original...yawn.
- Steve, London, 23/09/2009 14:14
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