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Lady Bankes School
Lady Bankes School, Ruislip. The best work of the pioneering Middlesex County Council architect department, using Dutch-inspired modernist design.
Crystal Palace Recreation Centre
Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre. Sports complex featuring an athletics stadium, swimming pools, squash courts and an outdoor music venue.
Arnos Grove Underground Station
Charles Holden’s mini masterpiece, a marriage of Scandinavian modernism and British Arts and Crafts.
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William Blake’s angel-filled tree on Peckham Rye
Where William Blake, at the age of 8, saw a vision of a tree “filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.”