Railway for sale.

Mirandola

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NorthNineteen

Comparing the main picture with below:<br><br><img src="http://pubshistory.com/Middlesex/FinsburyPark/RailwayHotel.jpg"><br><br>They really have done an amazing job of adding two new floors - how did they get the bricks to match?<br><br>Total price of all the flats is £3.3m.  1 bed flat at £440k!<br>

andy

Classic - using 'out of area' estate agents to bring a different type of buyer in.<div><br></div><div>That said, I saw the ads for City North on the tube and wondered if it was being built in an alternate reality.</div>

dion

Well it is VERY handy for the tube And you could pose/strip for the islington safety (parking) camera in your living room

dion

Was the bottom still a Starbucks?

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miss annie

Still Starbucks according to the builders. Keeping my eye out for the day they throw the signage in the skip, that's not on the jazzy visuals.

dion

Why not ask them if you can have it? Or they might already have sold to a salvage yard

dion

Is the building surprisingly Art Deco?

Arkady

@NorthNineteen- they used some kind of treatment on the bricks after they were in situ. It does match astonishingly well, but I do wonder how permanent it will be.

andy

<div>People have been complaining about foreigners ruining "our city" since at least the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. </div><div><br></div><div>But it's everyone's city. That's why it's brilliant.</div>

Arkady

Even further back. The Anglo Saxons used to hate the Norsemen who settled at Billingsgate. Those bloody Norse, with their foreign ship burial rights, pushing up the land prices and, er, supplying us with fish.

Perflexed

Bloody Romans! etc.

NorthNineteen

<font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Hate to bring some actual numbers into this debate - in 2013 10-15% of new properties in London were sold to international buyers (normally based overseas), this hides some variation:</font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Prime Central London - 49%</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Inner London - 20%</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">OUter London <7%</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">http://www.bpf.org.uk/en/files/bpf_documents/finance/Who_buys_new_homes_in_London_and_why_A4_web.pdf</font></div>;

Arkady

Stuart Lee on the history of immigration. I was close to tears by the time he got to the Beaker People. http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5357513/

conformable_kate

<font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Anglo-Saxons! Normans! 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font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       Auxiliaries or slaves of every nation. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       With Hengist, Saxons; Danes with Sueno came, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       In search of plunder, not in search of fame. </span></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Scots, Picts, and Irish from the Hibernian shore,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       And conquering William brought the Normans o'er. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">          All these their barbarous offspring left behind, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       The dregs of armies, they of all mankind; </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       Blended with Britons, who before were here, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       Of whom the Welsh ha' blessed the character. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">           From this amphibious ill-born mob began </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       That vain ill-natured thing, an Englishman. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       The customs, surnames, languages, and manners </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       Of all these nations are their own explainers: </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       Whose relics are so lasting and so strong, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       They ha' left a shibboleth upon our tongue, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       By which with easy search you may distinguish </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">       Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English. </span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There's lots more. 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NorthNineteen

Love the west country - the 3rd picture is just like near where I grew up.