Historic railway arch destroyed by 60s planners to be rebuilt after remains were found dumped in river
Simon Heffer in the Telegraph, UK
Restore the arch and let beauty into our towns
one important consideration about the demolition of the arch: that it was entirely pointless. It was the ultimate act of vandalism. And whatever the arch itself came to symbolise, its destruction came to symbolise two other far less attractive things: the philistine ruthlessness of government, and the bulldozing mentality of the march of modernism.
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