jagnut66 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:43 pm
The common excuse of it being progress covers many unforgiveable sins....
Newcastle (my home town) sadly suffered a similar fate
Reminds me of a song by the local late great singer/songwriter ‘Alex Glasgow’ of which I have forgotten the title but went;
‘...a plate glass central precinct stands where shoppers stroll around and cry,
As they watch the blackened embers of an older, much richer city die.
And while they standardize, sterilize and cauterize the ancient cities ills,
The architects and planners all saved themselves a cottage in the hills.’
Had it on a LP but left it behind when we emigrated.