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fredley on May 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the super-rich are digging down in London

There's a lot of history, but there's also a lot of low-mid rise cheap postwar developments (built on bomb sites) that are overdue for replacement.

mattkevan on May 13, 2018 [–]

We live on a long straight road in central London lined with Georgian townhouses. It’s possible to see exactly where the bombs fell as every few hundred yards the houses stop and there’s a 60s tower block or a park.

Never realised why until it was pointed out.

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