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12 November 2007

Vandals! [More:]I love this old cottage. All over Stratford old buildings are being razed to make way for new blocks of flats, developers cashing in on the 2012 Olympics. The Olympic Village and the stadium will be in Stratford.

A few years ago when the Central Line was suspended, I used to drive to Angel Lane and walk to Stratford station where I'd pick up another train to the office. I walked past this cottage every day and marvelled that it had managed to survive the Luftwaffe and the 60s 'improvement' of the area. I'd wonder about the people who'd lived there over the past two centuries.

Now it's gone. Although the council says it'll make the developer reinstate it, it won't be the same.
"it'll make the developer reinstate it"

I am wondering about this. Will the developer have to reconstruct it exactly, or must it be built to code?
posted by mischief 12 November | 16:41
oh noes!

I would have taken that cottage - there was no need to whack it.
posted by By the Grace of God 12 November | 17:34
1826! That really sucks. That's older than almost any house around here by about thirty years. I live in a house fifty years younger than that one and I'll have to get city approval to fix my porch or paint the windows because it's a historic structure. If I tried to raze it, the neighbors would have me shot. Didn't anyone notice the bulldozers?
posted by octothorpe 12 November | 19:45
SCORE! || Vandals!

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