Newbury Park Bus Station recognised by Historic England ilfordrecorder.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ilfordrecorder.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Not many people get wildly excited by a concrete bus shelter but Elain Harwood is, proudly and unapologetically, one of them. “It is grand, I love it … it is a simple curve and absolutely as minimal as could be.”
Harwood, an architectural historian with Historic England, is enthusing about Newbury Park bus station in Ilford, one of nine sites being recognised by Historic England to mark the 70th anniversary of the Festival of Britain.
On Thursday it announced that two sites were having their listing upgraded and a further seven are being relisted because of their festival links.
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By Marian Wright Edelman
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant and I would dream that some mighty man of great wealth built us a new school building or that our parents got together and surprised us with this grand new building and we had a big celebration and I even imagined that a great storm came through and blew down the main building and splattered the shacks to splinters and out of this wreckage rose this magnificent building and all the students were joyous and even the teachers cried . . .”