As these eight eventful years elapsed, by and large, during his attenuated season of carnal non-interference, there's not a lot of knickering to enliven the nickering. The Fry Chronicles document Fry's Cambridge days and early show-business successes up until his 30th birthday. How he was coaxed out of retirement, and by whom, and with what Vesuvian shuddering, will presumably be revealed in instalment three, or possibly four, of his memoirs that more is in the works is the implicit promise of the last line of the present volume. The Fry Chronicles, will know that he would remain abstemious for another decade. Readers of his latest excursion in autobiography, So wrote Stephen Fry in 1985, when he divulged, in Tatler Magazine, that he had been celibate for four years. Network Rail group property director Robin Dobson said the plans would “deliver a world-class transport interchange alongside new workspace with a new 24/7 leisure district at its heart”.'I would be greatly in debt to the man who could tell me what could ever be appealing about those damp, dark, foul-smelling and revoltingly tufted areas of the body that constitute the main dishes in the banquet of love.' In October last year, Sellar chief executive James Sellar said the proposal would alleviate the station’s “chronic overcapacity issues and future-proof it for generations at zero cost to the tax or fare payer”. “The claim that a cantilevered building directly on top of a heritage asset somehow ‘preserves’ that asset is nonsense, and sets a dangerous precedent.”Ī campaign to preserve the station against development was first launched in the 1970s by Sir John Betjeman, then poet laureate.

“To plonk 15 storeys of insensitively-designed tower directly on top of the Grade II listed former Great Eastern hotel, thus partially demolishing the listed station and overwhelming the Victorian train sheds, is grossly opportunistic and wrong. In their letter, opponents to the plans wrote: “The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities must call in the planning application for Liverpool Street Station and its terminus hotel. Network Rail, which owns the station, and transport company MTR are partnering with Sellar in developing the project.

The plan would involve rebuilding the neighbouring Grade II listed Andaz hotel, which opened as the Great Eastern hotel in 1884. The station “suffers from significant overcrowding” as well as “poor pedestrian accessibility and connectivity”, according to the company.

The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry