Barbican is like Marmite – you either love the area on the fringes of the City of London or you hate it. There is no middle ground. For some, it is one big brutal concrete monstrosity that is a blot on the landscape and should never have been […]
“Last Thursday they were turned out of their lodgings into the streets because they were in arrears with their rent,” reported the Illustrated Police News in 1900. “She had seven children….“ London has, in years gone by, been a trying place for many to live as a result […]
Peter Beuth, a German visitor to Manchester in 1823, wrote of a place where “machinery and buildings can be found commensurate with the miracles of modern times – they are called factories.” Clearly not believing his friend would be familiar with this new type of workplace he felt […]
Past In The Present 