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Lost Victorian Britain
These days it seems obvious that stupendous constructions like St Pancras Station should be preserved and restored. But as recently as the 1970s Glasgows superb St Enochs Hotel made way for a shopping centre and in the 1960s St Pancras itself was also earmarked for demolition. Victorian was a term of abuse. Add in wartime bombing by the Luftwaffe and town planners eager for ring roads and multi-storeys and the destruction is shocking. This poignant angry book full of stunning images chronicles the catastrophic swathe cut through our architectural heritage by the twentieth centurys sustained antipathy to the nineteenth entirely through buildings that have disappeared. Of the 200 notable examples of Victorian architecture illustrated in this book from the magnificent Imperial Institute in
Kensington to the vast country house of Eaton Hall not one still exists. A photograph is all we have left. As well as architectural causes celebres like the Euston Arch and Londons Coal Exchange Gavin Stamp turns up many lesser-known Victorian buildings like the extraordinary Gothic battlements of Columbia Market in East London or Chatsworths soaring glasshouse streamlined like a spaceship. Surprising chastening but also uplifting Lost Victorian Britain is a memorable journey back into a world we should never have lost.
Kensington to the vast country house of Eaton Hall not one still exists. A photograph is all we have left. As well as architectural causes celebres like the Euston Arch and Londons Coal Exchange Gavin Stamp turns up many lesser-known Victorian buildings like the extraordinary Gothic battlements of Columbia Market in East London or Chatsworths soaring glasshouse streamlined like a spaceship. Surprising chastening but also uplifting Lost Victorian Britain is a memorable journey back into a world we should never have lost.
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