I've been meaning to post about this for a while, after I read an article in the New Statesman last December on Heritage.
In particular I want to register my disgust at the destruction of a great piece of architecture - the Euston Arch. No, I'd not heard of it either, but that's because it's before my time.
Completed in 1837 the Arch was the dramatic 70ft high entrance for Euston Railway Station. Sadly, Harold Macmillan agreed in 1961 to destroy pull it down in order for the the railway lines to be extended and a new concourse built. It was duly pulled down a year later.
Now, some 42 years on, the lines and concourse remain in exactly the same place as they were, this beautiful piece of architecture had been pulled down for nothing. You'd like to think such a cultural travesity would not happen again, but sadly I don't have that confidence. Do you?
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