Britain’s Lost Cities: A Chronicle of Architectural Destruction

The destruction of Britain's city centres by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and postwar planners is legendary. Mediaeval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by concrete office-blocksand characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first time, Gavin Stamp shows us exactly what we have lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities from Plymouth to Dundee, all of streets and buildings that aregone forever.