Mister Prickles 🦔The forbidding aspect of Southwyck House was deliberately designed to muffle the roar of an eight lane, elevated motorway, planned to slash through #Brixton. Mercifully, it was never built, but other travesties like the elevated section of the A40 - the #Westway - give you an idea of a #London that might have been.
London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city
In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided