Loughborough

[wellinghall]

Pevsner, 1960: "Loughborough, in spite of its 35,000 inhabitants, has hardly a house, let alone a street, in its centre which would require mention."

Comments

[dreiviertel.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I aim to please :-)

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Pevsner was really rather catty at times. He described Old Shire Hall in Durham as a testament to the grandeur of Victorian architecture and the abysmal lack of Victorian taste (or words to that effect).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, he could be quite catty!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's grown in the last fifty-odd years ... there are now 55,000 trying to escape ...