UK - London - Man reading book on oil drums

A man reads a book while sitting astride an old concrete-filled oil drums at the entrance to an East London railway tunnel. Wearing dark glasses and reading a book about successful business plans. The six solid drums serve as a heavy deterrent for any vehicles expecting to drive through the dark underpass. This is near Brick Lane, an area of now mainly the Bangladeshi and artists' community but also of a new development of cross-London railways that have changed the area irreversibly. The tunnel is a turning off Sclater Street that formed part of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's subterranean Bishopgate Goodsyard in use between 1840 to 1964. Partly demolished in 2004, the rails now carry overland trains on the Crossrail project.

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A man reads a book while sitting astride an old concrete-filled oil drums at the entrance to an East London railway tunnel. Wearing dark glasses and reading a book about successful business plans. The six solid drums serve as a heavy deterrent for any vehicles expecting to drive through the dark underpass. This is near Brick Lane, an area of now mainly the Bangladeshi and artists' community but also of a new development of cross-London railways that have changed the area irreversibly. The tunnel is a turning off Sclater Street that formed part of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's subterranean Bishopgate Goodsyard in use between 1840 to 1964. Partly demolished in 2004, the rails now carry overland trains on the Crossrail project.