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August 11, 2005
British Library to Calder Bookshop
Euston Road
Mabledon Place
Cartwright Gardens
Marchmont Street
The Brunswick Centre Alas. Disaster. The Brunswick Centre, hitherto one of the great landmarks of seedy modernism (or modernist seediness) in London, is to be 'renovated', 'updated' etc. The cheap and welcoming Little Venice restaurant is gutted; The cavernous Skoob secondhand bookshop has disappeared; all is scaffolding; but high upon the scaffold hangs the managerial classes' vinyl-coated flag of triumph, a litany of mediocre misery foretelling what is to become of this once-precious place. It's almost funny, the way they display these names as if they're something to be proud of. I suppose it had to happen sooner or later -" at least they can't destroy the super space-invader structure itself, but it will be a jarring and unpleasant thing to see encased within it the shiny exteriors of St*rbucks and B*netton :(
Bernard Street
Russell Square
Montague Street
Great Russell Street
Coptic Street
New Oxford Street
Shaftesbury Avenue
Monmouth Street
Mercer Street
Long Acre
James Street
Floral Street
Garrick Street
St. Martin's Lane
Trafalgar Square
Duncannon Street
Strand
Lancaster Place
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Road
Alaska Street
Cornwall Road Waterloo geodelirium: why does Cornwall abut onto Alaska? In any case, if you like cakes, visit Konditor and Cook
Cornwall Road
The Cut Peter Marinker of the Godot Company, reading Beckett, "in character" with tatty bowler. Not only does this man do a wonderful Molloy, but in his time he's also voiced the bad guys in Monkey!
Posted by robin at August 11, 2005 04:00 PM