Missing Britain
23 May 2010 - 11:00am
A new book documents great buildings demolished throughout Britain. Nicolas Lezard points out how many were lost not to German bombs but to poor planning decisions.
Lezard writes, "Look, for example, at the photograph of Woburn Square, Bloomsbury, gorgeous enough even without the steeple of Christ Church in the background. The picture was taken in 1941, and you expect to read that this was destroyed in an air raid; but no, the culprit was the University of London, which demolished the church and most of the square in 1974."
Source:
The Guardian U.K., May 15, 2010
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