For some reason, I didn’t post the photographs I took last week of the Natural History Museum, Alfred Waterhouse’s great terracotta palace. Its front doors were mysteriously shut, but this didn’t prevent it being stuffed full of dinosaur-loving schoolchildren:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
You are absolutely right – it’s a wonderful piece of design in which, now that it’s clean, its detail (the blue bricks) can be properly appreciated.
We are probably the last of the dinosaurs who remember how it shone out like a Fairytale castle when all the buildings around it were soot shrouded and sad… before the Clean Air Act had effect and Mr Szerlemy taught us about pressure washing.