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November 22, 2005
The Reality of a Place
[11 Nov 2005]
Euston Road
Judd Street
Bidborough Street
Mabledon Place
Cartwright Gardens
Burton Place
Burton Street
Woburn Walk
Upper Woburn Street
Tavistock Square
Tavistock Way
Herbrand Street
Coram Street
Marchmont Street
Brunswick Square
Coram's Fields
Not many places qualify as secrets
though we are often sold them, trendy exclusivity droops
in proportion to the speed and vigour of its inflation.
Exclusivity and capital don't mix: you can always buy your way in.
This is different. The site of an orphan hospital,
it survives as a strange oasis of aspicked victoriana,
its gentle civility maintained by a charitable intransigence:
No adult enjoys its tranquility without accompanying child.
The door policy is studiously applied by the staff;
Farm animals put out to pasture on the playgrounds,
Rumbling hard by its stillness, London's grinding violence
and insane ratiocinations do not enter these walls.
Guildford Place
St Ormond Street
Lambs Conduit Street
Dombey Street
Harpur Street
Theobalds Road
Bloomsbury Way
Shaftesbury Avenue
Neal Street
Earlham Street
Mercer Street
Long Acre
St Martins Lane
St Martins Place
Trafalgar Square
Posted by robin and donald at November 22, 2005 10:35 PM
Comments
Most of the buildings in Coram's Fields actually date from the 1930s, although they look older.
See here: http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/coram.html
Posted by: bham at November 24, 2005 02:50 PM