Steve Freeman

@[email protected] true that. I used to know people who grew up with London “pea souper” fogs. They had to feel the letters on the street signs to know where they were.

@[email protected] sadly, Battersea is an object lesson in the failures of the market obsession of the thatcher years. After being stripped and left derelict for years, it’s now surrounded by mediocre developments and only really visible from directly across the river. The Bankside station was bought by the Tate gallery and has been a huge success as a public building.