Let’s go to Croydon
Jonathan Meades, 13 April 2023
Castlefield with Beetham Tower, Manchester.
‘Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.’ The London that Muriel Spark describes in The Girls of Slender Means – ‘buildings in bad repair or in no repair at all, bombsites piled with stony rubble, houses like giant teeth in which decay had been drilled out, leaving only the...