SEE NOW WE GOT THERE EVEN WITHOUT A travelcard!
--- Nate and Jane Dorward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The entry in _The London Encyclopedia_ (1983) runs:
>
> Elephant and Castle. SE1. A traffic junction since
> at least the 17th
> century, because the roads to Kennington, Walworth
> and Lambeth met here. In
> the mid-18th century the volume of traffic was
> greatly increased by the
> building of Blackfriars Bridge, the New Kent Road
> and the London Road. The
> Elephant and Castle was originally a smithy which
> was converted to a tavern
> in about 1760. The origin of its name is uncertain
> but it may have been
> named after the sign of the Cutlers' Company, which
> dealt in ivory, or after
> the Infanta of Castille who was once engaged to
> Charles I; however in the
> heraldry of the Middle Ages an elephant is nearly
> always shown with a castle
> on its back, and in chess sets the castle is
> sometimes carved on the top of
> an elephant. The Elephant and Castle became a
> well-known coaching terminus
> in the 18th and 19th centuries and later a terminus
> for trams. The area was
> devastated in the 2nd World War. It was redeveloped
> in 1961-6 around two
> gigantic roundabouts with a covered shopping arcade
> designed by Boissevian
> and Osmond, a cinema and buildings for the Ministry
> of Health by Erno
> Goldfinger, and the London College of Printing and
> Graphic Art by London
> County Council architects.
>
> all best --N
>
> Nate & Jane Dorward
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