Whilst in Barking, we went to admire the curious brick folly designed by muf in Barking Town Square to soften the effect of a large new development by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris alongside the 1930s Scandinavian-style town hall. Muf erected a pure brick folly at the back of the Iceland store to give Barking a sense of its history, which it should have anyway, given that it’s the site of an Anglo- Saxon nunnery founded in 666 by the Bishop of London, with a lunatic asylum attached which apparently gave rise to the phrase ‘Barking mad’:-
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What an interesting set of photos and information on your blog. Thank you.
That is information and perception that Pevsner would never have had. It’s another reason why Chatto should be pushing you to do another London book. Are they? I imagine that East London sold pretty well, and will go on selling for years.