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A Spectacular Entrance to Central London.

The Strand And Charing Cross 1890
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Before my time, of course, but this is still a very familiar view to me . Not only did I intern (from Westminster Technical College Hotel School) at the Charing Cross Hotel on the right but also passed through the station 5 days a week for two years.

On occasion I'd stay too late at a party on a Friday night and have to get the 'milk train' in the dawn hours. I loved walking the streets of London in the middle of the night.

I also loved coming in across the Thames into Charing Cross station on the Southern Railways from Woolwich Arsenal. To me it is a spectacular station and continues to be so even with the renovations which I explored with my two teenage kids in 2001.

Written by DYLAN RIVIS. To send DYLAN RIVIS a private message, click here.

A memory of London in Greater London shared on Monday, 19th May 2008.

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