The Anonymous Widower

Good Design Is Timeless

C, myself and our three boys, were the first occupants of 111, Cromwell Tower in the Barbican.  It was a good place to live and we all enjoyed it.

So I was very surprised to see a similar flat featured in yesterday’s Times comic.  It is in the middle tower;Shakespeare, with a picture showing Cromwell in the background.

Our’s was a three-bedroomed flat and they say that the one shown is two, but they may have been a similar layout.

It’s funny how you notice things, but we were mandated by the lease to have carpets everywhere to cut down the noise.  The flat shown has got wood block floors.

But otherwise they are surprisingly like the flat we knew.

If I walk to the end of my road, I can see Cromwell Tower, in all its crenellated glory.

I may have gone many miles in the forty years since we left, but all I’ve done is take a short run up the road to where my ancestors lived.

September 30, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | World | Architecture, Barbican, Building, Good Design