Britain | Not even past
How German bombs shape London’s gangs
The past of the city can be seen in its present
JUST AS LINES on a summer wheat field reveal ancient walls below, so the architecture of an old city can be glimpsed in the new. The west ends of British cities tend to be swankier than the east, in part because prevailing British winds blew Victorian pollution eastward. Factory owners, preferring not to sit in their own smog, moved upwind.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Not even past”
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