Harry Mount

The men who demolished Victorian Britain

Gavin Stamp's Anti-Ugly and Lost Victorian Britain are a glorious lament for our lost architectural heritage - and a celebration of what remains

The London terminus of the North Western Railyway in the 1860s, showing a busy scene in front of the Euston Arch, which was demolished a century later. Credit: Universal Images Group

  • Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design

    Gavin Stamp

    Aurum, pp. 260

  • Lost Victorian Britain: How the 20th Century Destroyed the 19th Century’s Architectural Masterpieces

    Gavin Stamp

    Aurum, pp. 192

Already a subscriber? Log in

This article is for subscribers only

Get a free bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label when you subscribe to The Spectator for just £12 in our Black Friday sale

  • Free bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky, worth £30
  • Unlimited access to our website and app
  • Enjoy Spectator newsletters and podcasts
  • Explore our online archive, going back to 1828

Read next

Trending

Damian Reilly

The insufferable rise of the sportswriter bore

Can someone check on Guardian sportswriter Jonathan Liew? It would appear he is not taking events in the Middle East terribly well, and one suspects the election of Donald Trump hasn’t helped, either.  I’ve noticed it for a while now, this trend of using the back pages – traditionally the fun pages – to foist desperate and

More on architecture

Also by Harry Mount

Latest

Comments

Black Friday sale: Get 10 weeks for just $1

Unlimited access to the The Spectator, online and via the app

Already a subscriber? Log in