For all those people like me who have been brought up with a copy of the relevant Pevsner in our pocket or at least back home to consult on our bookshelf, I have written in the February edition of The Critic (front section) about the implications of the impending completion of the revised series this summer with the publication of Staffordshire Mark 2.

I can see that there may not be a viable economic case for a further revision, although it is worth pointing out that London 2: South was published over forty years ago, before Tate Modern had been dreamt of and Batttersea Power Station was a ruin.  But it still seems odd that the office has already been shut down without, so far as I am aware, a discussion as to whether they could be put online and kept up-to-date, including the invaluable and admirable City Guides, which are a touch more user friendly than the original county guides, although they too have become so much longer and more scholarly over the last seventy-plus years, since the publication of Cornwall and Nottinghamshire in their brown-and-white covers in July 1951.