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A quick search on Google Street Map shows that the wonderful Art Deco hotel is ( Or has recently ) undergone an good external restoration & re-paint.
It is looking good – & thanks for that article.
Suggestion – maybe we want occasional pieces on individual “bits” of railway architecture?
We can do railway architecture – this was one of our first features Frank Pick’s Forgotten Streamlined Bus Garages.
Re the buses converted for ambulance use. “It is thought to be the first time any part of the NHS has had to use specially adapted buses like this to move patients around”
I’m sure it’s true that is the first time “specially adapted” buses have been used.
Wasn’t a non adapted vehicle used at the Cannon Street station crash? If my memory is to be trusted, didn’t the police commandeer a Red Arrow service that was passing along Cannon Street and use that bus to transport walking wounded passengers to hospital, thereby allowing the ambulance crews to concentrate on the more seriously injured.