LOVE STORY IN LONDON UNDERGROUND
The people
who have visited London keep on their memory the sentence “Mind the gap, please”.
The sentence is repeated through the loudspeakers in all the Londonese Tube stations.
Originally
the voice was from the actor Laurence Oswald who, since 1960, advised to the
users of the underground to be careful and not introduce their feet in the gap
between the train and the platform.
Nevertheless the new telematics systems finish silencing the Oswald's
voice little by little and in a progressive way was reduced to an only station:
Embankment (Northern Line). Since the death of the actor in 2001, his widow
attended there to listen to him.
One day
Mss. Laurence discovered that her husband's voice was always substituted. She contacted
with the underground personnel to ask for a copy of the mythical “Mid the gap” that her
husband recorded 40 years ago.
The story touched the staff of the London
Tube and not only gave her a copy but they decided to recover the voice of Oswald at the
Embankment Station. Nowadays, Miss. Laurence can go to the Embankment Station
and listen to the voice of her husband whenever she want.
Saint Valentine's Day is coming soon,
do you know any moving or touching story to be told and commented at class?
Alfonso Dolset
And now just a beautiful song
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