Britain's Lost Cities Author:Gavin Stamp, Gavin Stamp The destruction meted out to Britain's city centres during the twentieth century - by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and city-planners - is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces and Victorian theatres all made way for a gruesome landscape of concrete offi ce-blocks and characterless shopping malls. — Now, for the... more » first time, Gavin Stamp traces the damage through hundreds of haunting photographs of lost streets and buildings from Plymouth to Dundee, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely Coventry, already doomed by the city planners even before German air-raids.
Fascinating and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving our heritage.« less