Originally Posted by
EdF
How come all of these buildings look so much better now than they did when they were everyday sights?
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I think one of the reasons was, as I recall it (ie totally unreliable) that back then in the fifties the buildings were all coloured dark grey to black. At the time I did not realise that many were red underneath, the black being from the smoke of wartime fires during the Christmas and May blitz, years before I was born.
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My brother used to work in the labs behind the Royal Infirmary around 1960 feeding, mucking out and slicing up labs rats and preparing microscope slides for the medical students.
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