Plymouth: the architecture is palpably the work of men in their dotage

Martins Bank, Armada Way, by Lucas Roberts & Brown 1955-7.

Source: Laura Oldfield Ford

The modernised classicism of the rebuilt city centre was already tired by the 1940s, but Plymouth has other surprises

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