This is his story and it will thrill you. There are love stories that seem to be taken out of a book when, in fact, they are totally true. This is the case of Margaret McCollum, a woman who goes every day to London’s Embarkment tube station to hear the voice of her husband, who died in 2006.
McCollum’s husband, actor Oswald Laurence, was the famous voice of the London Underground who recorded the commercial in 1950 “Mind the GAP, please” and that alerts passengers about the care they should have with the space between the car and the platform when getting on or off at each station.
Laurence died in 2003, at the age of 86, leaving Margaret very sad. However, this announcement it became his best way to remember it.. Since then, the woman goes to the station every day to be able to listen to the love of her life and with whom she had shared more than half a life by her side.
Embarkment, a unique station
This emotional habit of going to the London Underground every day lasted about nine years, since her husband’s voice was replaced by a new recording. ” Since he died, I was sitting and waiting for the next train to hear his voice, ” McCollum told BBC news.
Surprised, she went to ask the authorities what had happened. Employees told him that with the new reproduction system it was impossible to use Oswald’s adbut they promised to find a way so that she could continue to enjoy her husband’s voice.
“We were very moved by your story, so the staff located the record and not only they made a copy of the ad so she could have it., but they are working to be able to retrieve it at Embarkment station, ” said a spokesman for the company in charge of the London Underground.
Today the voice-over of all London Underground stations is digitized, except in the one where Margaret usually sits to hear the voice of her late husband. On Embarkment you can still hear the voice of Oswald Laurence say again and again ‘Mind the GAP, please’’
