Re: Stations and places
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:04 am
Re the wonderful King's Cross photo, all the 'six-foot' areas appear to be paved up to the level of the railheads. It this a throwback to earlier days of rail travel in the UK, when platforms were lower or not even raised at all and railway carriages had steps so they could be boarded from ground level (as the ancient-looking second carriage in the rake adjacent to Earl Beatty's train in the picture still has)?
Also I liked the big advert on the footbridge for 'Owbridge's Lung Tonic' so much that I had to know more.
Turns out it was a product made in Hull by an enterprising chap called Walter Thomas Owbridge. On the website
http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-vic ... _court.htm it says that 'His Lung Tonic did not have to contend with a Trades Descriptions Act or any effective consumer protection legislation. It could be advertised as a cure for “all affections of the chest, throat and lungs”, including asthma and tuberculosis!'
It also says that 'He realised the value of advertising, and spent large amounts of money on it...' - obviously some of it to the benefit of the GNR/LNER balance sheet.
Wonder if it's worth getting a bottle or two in before this Mexican swine 'flu hits town?
Also I liked the big advert on the footbridge for 'Owbridge's Lung Tonic' so much that I had to know more.
Turns out it was a product made in Hull by an enterprising chap called Walter Thomas Owbridge. On the website
http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-vic ... _court.htm it says that 'His Lung Tonic did not have to contend with a Trades Descriptions Act or any effective consumer protection legislation. It could be advertised as a cure for “all affections of the chest, throat and lungs”, including asthma and tuberculosis!'
It also says that 'He realised the value of advertising, and spent large amounts of money on it...' - obviously some of it to the benefit of the GNR/LNER balance sheet.
Wonder if it's worth getting a bottle or two in before this Mexican swine 'flu hits town?