Saturday, April 19, 2008
This is not a beautiful city. The sky may be dotted with steeples, but also with tower blocks and cranes. There may be pockets of medieval and Tudor gorgeousness, but much of the city centre is brutal concrete regeneration. It's not the locals' fault, but post-war planners did the place few architectural favours. Betjeman would not have been impressed. I have yet to venture into the city centre proper, but I have been to the house of a man who invented a much loved form of transport, and the church responsible for a well known phrase or saying. I'm also bloody cold. Now for a perhaps ill-advised walk alongside the choppy waters of the canal. Although the steamy smell from that narrowboat is divine, and just how record-breaking is that bridge? (Oh, and Pedantic of Purley, sorry, you're wrong...)
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