Summary
AS we stepped out of Barbican Tube station, we felt like we'd encountered a cross between the Byker Wall and the Get Carter car park.
Apartment blocks of different shapes and sizes, most of them concrete and dark-grey in colour, sprawled in front of us and the prospect of navigating our way through the thing had our heads spinning.See the full content of this document
Extract
Victorian Splendour
We had stumbled on the Barbican estate, dreamed up in the wake of the blitz and built to include shops, restaurants and residential properties in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
We stopped a passer-by and thrus...See the full content of this document
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