\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 This was once an industrial riverside area filled with warehouses for storing products shipped up the Thames. When the \b \cf4 \ATXht10901000 railways\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 made their incursion into the City from the south, commerce and industry gained new impetus. However, not all Victorians relished the pollution and noise it brought. A writer of the 1880s described the view from W
aterloo Bridge in almost apocalyptic terms: ôhuge wide-opened jaws of those two Behemoths, the Cannon Street and Charing Cross railway stations... they belch forth puffing trains as the breath of their nostrils, gorging and disgorging incessantly those
human atoms whose movement is the life of the cityö.\par
