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audio text>First Impressions

When we arrived at Victoria Station I expected something beautiful, but at the time it was very, very dirty and everything seemed to be so black. We were very distressed, very distressed, but once we got to the Kings Cross to come to Bradford it was dark in the evening. Then we arrived in Bradford at half-past eleven in the evening so we couldn't see anything. We only saw that it was very dark, houses, everything was very dark, raining. Awful, you know, terrible weather it was.