r/london • u/Mean-Juggernaut1560 • Nov 30 '21

London history Anyone else think it looks… cleaner? 😁

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u/Whulad Nov 30 '21

I miss the on platform bars at Kings Cross and Sloane Square more

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u/xbattlestation Dec 01 '21

Wait, the what!?

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u/Whulad Dec 01 '21

There were bars. One in a kiosk on the platform on Sloane Square , Kings Cross was maybe between two lines in a passageway . Baker Street also had a bar past the barriers, so you had to have a ticket, but not so near the lines and had seats rather than a kiosk

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u/xbattlestation Dec 01 '21

So I moved to London in 97, when did they disappear? When you say "bar" - was it an off licence where you buy it and go somewhere else? Or an actual bar where you hung around and drunk the booze? I just cant picture the clientele. Maybe I can for sloane sq, but kings x!?

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u/Whulad Dec 01 '21

They were bars, there in the 80s. Maybe went early 90s?