Sunday, 11 May 2014

42. Sloane Square


Saturday 10th May 1.45pm

I quite like the tiling, even if it is an attempt to make the station feel fancier than it is. Considering the area it serves is nice and has lots of expensive shops the Tube station is a bit ordinary, and the platforms are open to the air. Even the station building itself has got a horrid office block sat on top of it, the least lovely building on Sloane Square.

The Wikipedia entry reminds me that the man who was one of the boys who inspired J M Barrie's Peter Pan committed suicide at this station and when I saw the play Peter & Alice about how it had affected his life it was just about the only line in the whole thing that moved me to tears.

Wikipedia entry here.

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