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The Arch stones are recovered from the River Lea |
No stones unturned: Euston Arch raised
FOR nearly 40 years they have lain forgotten beneath the murky waters of the River Lea. But this week stones that were once part of the historic Euston Arch were recovered from their watery resting place.
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank, who has been campaigning to see the Arch reinstated at the entrance of a new Euston station, watched as the stones being lifted from the silt by a digger this week.
He was joined by retired engineer Bob Cotton, who had been the foreman when the original arch was demolished and the stones used to plug a hole in the riverbed for the recently dredged channel.
Mr Cruickshank said: “The Euston Arch Trust has been campaigning for 15 years to re-build the Euston Arch at Euston station. The arch, completed in 1838, was the first great building of the railway age, the largest Grecian Doric gateway ever made and a building of great beauty. It’s destruction was an act of barbarism, but the careful raising of a number of its stones – a magnificent gesture on the part of British Waterways – moves the rebuilding campaign forward significantly.” |
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