London Fabric

This book, an attempt to recall a few of the associations dormant in some London buildings, is quite as much the fruit of the crisis of September 1938 as National Service or the black, snouted faces of the gas-masks, grinning in invasion. During those tense autumnal days I wandered round the city, wishing both to distract my mind and to view, as it then seemed, for the last time the places I like. From this sombre tour emerged a conviction that if one was to try to write about London it had better be at once. For all that to me makes this city worth living in (all, that is to say, which the contractors have spared) is literally indefensible.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CRYPTS

HAMPTON COURT

DULWICH

HERTFORD HOUSE

GREENWICH

STAFFORD HOUSE

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