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Benny Green speaking at the junction of Stanhope and Robert Street in Euston from "London not quite the place" 1975
"This bollard stands at the heart of what was once a notorious north London slum. Rat infested, bug ridden, no coals in the bath the locals couldn't afford coals, or baths. That was only twenty five years ago and yet all that's left is this bollard. Now I don't know if the past was any better, from what I remember it probably deserved to go under simply because it was too ignoble to survive. But now just look around you, the only trouble is that when you reshape a townscape as drastically as this, then you also reshape the lives of the people who live in it.

I wonder what would a farmer do if he opened his door one morning and found that someone had removed the valley. Under the circumstances probably the most sensible thing to do would be to go mad, and some people do.

See the only proof any of us have that we ever passed this way, are the pubs and the clubs and the flats and the houses and the shops that we once passed time in. Well here, every scrap of evidence has been destroyed, and the links with the past have been snapped, except for this [touches bollard, scene ends]."