Just having a look at the site of the closed Bishopgate station
Reference :
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=533655&y=182145&z=0&sv=TQ33658214&st=5&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

using maps.google.com (NOT the Google maps program) and Microsoft's
maps.live.com.

Using the closest zoom possible (including Street View in
maps.live.com), on both systems there seems to be a preponderance of
pedestrian activity on the Brick Lane road overbridge.

I realise the photos were taken on different dates, and could be some
years old and some years apart, but ....

maps.live.com has a crowd seemingly centred directly over the railway
line, but also spread out along both approaches. Were they waiting for
something special?

maps.google.com appears to have more spread, but there still is a
concentrated collection towards the northern approaches .... an
outdoor market, perhaps?

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steam3801
If a man speaks in the forest, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

On 26 Sep, 10:24, steam3801  wrote:
> maps.live.com has a crowd seemingly centred directly over the railway
> line, but also spread out along both approaches. Were they waiting for
> something special?

You can't see the railway line from Brick Lane.

> maps.google.com appears to have more spread, but there still is a
> concentrated collection towards the northern approaches .... an
> outdoor market, perhaps?

Yep. There's an awful flea market/jumble sale that takes place along
that stretch of Brick Lane where random ne'erdowells lay out possibly
stolen tat directly on the pavement (mainly broken electronics and old
clothes - nothing anyone would want to buy).

Though it's usually a pretty busy street anyway - I doubt many people
come specially for the market.

U

"Mr Thant"  wrote in message 
news:3305b624-1abc-4183-9553-c70815e46735@73g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
> On 26 Sep, 10:24, steam3801  wrote:
>> maps.live.com has a crowd seemingly centred directly over the railway
>> line, but also spread out along both approaches. Were they waiting for
>> something special?
>
> You can't see the railway line from Brick Lane.
>
>> maps.google.com appears to have more spread, but there still is a
>> concentrated collection towards the northern approaches .... an
>> outdoor market, perhaps?
>
> Yep. There's an awful flea market/jumble sale that takes place along
> that stretch of Brick Lane where random ne'erdowells lay out possibly
> stolen tat directly on the pavement (mainly broken electronics and old
> clothes - nothing anyone would want to buy).
>
> Though it's usually a pretty busy street anyway - I doubt many people
> come specially for the market.
>

Hasn't there been a fairly ridiculous series of campaigns to rename various 
LU stations in the area 'Brick Lane', (or even Banglatown!) which LU quickly 
turned down?

Paul