Or looking at the terrible things they built to replace the bombed city
centre in places like Coventry!
On Saturday, July 13, 2013, Joe Brown wrote:
> You can get a really good idea of the impact of the German bombing by
> walking a couple of blocks from the museum to see the remains of a 14th
> century cathedral that was never rebuilt.
>
> Joe
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> I love Owain's account of West London, because it parallels my experience
> the last two times I stayed in the Kensington-High Street section. It
> looked
> pretty middle class as far as housing, until I started noticing the cars
> parked at the curb. One of friends told me that Manhattan is to West London
> what Brooklyn is to Manhattan, and once you see it, Manhattan seems like
> not
> such a bad deal afterall. I find the odd thing is, that to stay in the area
> has been pretty reasonable if you're just there temporarily. Maybe I've
> mentioned this before, but when I visited the Transport Museum in Coventry,
> seeing the display of the bombing of Coventry during WWII was a real
> eye-opener, and you get a much more profound notion of what the major
> cities
> in the UK underwent during that war.
>
> Rande
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