I had posted Both those Euston towers gone; trees felled by #HS2, grass turned to concrete by #HS2 for taxi rank, used briefly. The quakers destroyed the southern half of the Square about 1920, #HS2 the rest now. Photo by me.
and Simon had replied:
Euston Square Gardens South was a 1920’s land grab — 100 yrs later much the same is happening again.
Writing in 1923 to the Times university constituency MP Sir Sydney Russell-Wells stated
“once built on, it goes without saying that the land is lost forever”
michael edwards 