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Old May 3rd 17, 05:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Wed, 3 May 2017 00:25:14 +0100, Basil Jet
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On 2017\05\02 22:59, wrote:

Phew , I half expected to open that and find that it had been
demolished by an errant road sweeper or worse been uprooted and swiped
for some town or city's twee improved pedestrian area with newly laid
cobbles and reproduction Edwardian lampposts till I noticed the 2014
date.

Either a thing looks nice or it doesn't. Why was it okay for Edwardians
to make things that looked nice but it's not okay for us? The people who
make beauty in the age of ugliness deserve praise, not criticism.

We agree on this. Not everything the Edwardians built was beautiful.
Not everything thing built since the 1960s is ugly. But, the balance
is sure in favor of the Edwardians.
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