On Wednesday, 16 November 1898, Harrods debuted England's first " moving staircase " ( escalator ) in their Brompton Road stores; the device was actually a woven leather conveyor belt-like unit with a mahogany and " silver plate-glass " balustrade.
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:This reminds me of a story whose title I can't remember either, where someone gets stuck on a moving staircase going down, down, down, and when they reach the bottom they're a long way underground and either the " up " moving stairs are out of order, or there aren't any, and he has to climb back up, but he doesn't make it.
