Let’s go to Croydon
Jonathan Meades, 13 April 2023
Iconicon: A Journey around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
by John Grindrod.
Faber, 478 pp., £10.99, March,978 0 571 34814 5 Show More
by John Grindrod.
Faber, 478 pp., £10.99, March,
“... lotion and so on and on – iconic terrorist, iconic toaster, iconic Toby jug … They anticipate John Grindrod’s Weltanschauung. There is very little he sees that can’t have ‘iconic’ attached to it. As he wanders through the places created in the nearly five decades since Thatcher decreed the right to buy he finds the iconic everywhere. He sees ... ”
