Piece of My Heart
“It was partly Roy, of course, and partly some deep-rooted sense of outrage at what the place had suffered.
King’s Cross station was the usual throng of travellers standing gazing up at the boards like people looking for alien spacecraft. There was nowhere to sit; that was the problem. The station authorities didn’t want to encourage people to hang around the station; they had enough problems with terrorists, teenage prostitution and drugs as it was. So they let the poor buggers stand while they... waited for their trains.
A uniformed constable met Banks and Annie at the side exit, as arranged, and whisked them in a patrol car through the streets of central London to Cromwell Road and along the Great West Road, past the roadside graffti-scored concrete and glass towers of Hammersmith to Nick Barber’s Chiswick flat, not far from Fuller’s Brewery. It was a modern brick low-rise building, three storeys in all, and Barber had lived at the top in one of the corner units. The police locksmith was waiting for them.MoreLess
King’s Cross station was the usual throng of travellers standing gazing up at the boards like people looking for alien spacecraft. There was nowhere to sit; that was the problem. The station authorities didn’t want to encourage people to hang around the station; they had enough problems with terrorists, teenage prostitution and drugs as it was. So they let the poor buggers stand while they... waited for their trains.
A uniformed constable met Banks and Annie at the side exit, as arranged, and whisked them in a patrol car through the streets of central London to Cromwell Road and along the Great West Road, past the roadside graffti-scored concrete and glass towers of Hammersmith to Nick Barber’s Chiswick flat, not far from Fuller’s Brewery. It was a modern brick low-rise building, three storeys in all, and Barber had lived at the top in one of the corner units. The police locksmith was waiting for them.MoreLess
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