"Matthew Malthouse" <usenet@calmeilles.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Cast_Iron wrote:
> }  Matthew Malthouse wrote:
> }  > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:01:34 +0100 Dave wrote:
> }  > }  Matthew Malthouse <usenet@calmeilles.demon.co.uk> writes
> }  > }  >}  How dare they call that station Chancery Lane
> }  > }  >}
> }  > }  >}  Nowhere flippin near it
> }  > }  >
> }  > }  >177 meters from it.
> }  > }  >
> }  > }  >But it makes me curious, why did it get named Chancery
> }  > Lane rather than }  >Grey's Inn Road at the foot of which
> }  > it stands? }
> }  > }  The current entrance to Chancery Lane is not the
> }  > station's original }  entrance - it was re-sited when
> }  > escalators were installed back in the }  1930s.  As I'm
> }  > sure you can appreciate, lifts go directly up and down }
> }  > and escalators don't - so a new entrance might have to be
> }  > situated quite }  some distance away from the original.
> }  > This was done more recently at }  Angel, where the new
> }  > entrance is about 100m away from the old entrance.
> }  >
> }  > Haha!  Thank you.  I didn't know that the station entrance
> }  > wasn't the original, although I should have thought of it.
> }
> }  Are you capable?
>
> What is this?  Jump on Matthew week?

Please, don't take such things personally. some people like jumping on
anyone and everyone. :-)