Eleanor Cross
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Edward I was the "bad guy" in Braveheart. As always, things tend to be more complex than we want to believe.
My father[0] was a really interesting chap. He was deeply steeped in diplomacy and foreign relations, and would gently correct me, every time I made some absolutist statement ("They should just..."). He'd point out that, in our culture, it's OK for us to say this, but when we say the same thing in their culture, it actually means... etc.
Braveheart was criticized for many historical inaccuracies (my personal favorite is the scene near the end when Isabella of France tells Edward I that the child she will have, who will inherit the English throne, is by Wallace, not Edward's son--which couldn't possibly be true since, first, Edward II didn't even marry Isabella until after his father Edward I was dead, and second, Edward III, who succeeded Edward II, wasn't born until 1312, seven years after William Wallace died). However, it is true that Edward I had William Wallace hanged, drawn, and quartered for treason against England. (Which, since Scotland was a separate kingdom from England at the time, does seem a bit much.)
That is usually done with a fair bit of brutality, as anyone that has looked past the rose-colored glasses, at the Roman Empire, can tell you.
Kicking out the Jews as an example. I know you probably know I just feel like it's worth having down in print here.
Look at where it is on the satellite image:
It has been there since 1865 though, so if you think it's awkward wrt the infrastructure that's developed since then really it's the other way around and I'm not sure who you expected to do what over the last 25y? Or am I missing a joke?
I think I'd argue that's at least partly due to changed attitudes about railway stations. In 1865 I think it would've seemed grander and more prominent, more of a presence while bustling about between horse-drawn and train carriage, calling a porter, etc.; today's stations themselves are not grand, we bustle in broadly the same ways but perhaps more busily, heads in phones, between machinery that moves more quickly, and what was perhaps once a fairly open free for all semi-square is not, from memory, a taxi rank and a road divided by the cross?