Missing Britain

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.

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May 23, 2010, 11:00 AM PDT

By Tim Halbur

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."

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Saturday, May 15, 2010 in The Guardian U.K.

Architecture Government / Politics United Kingdom

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