Leicester, Charles Street And Belgrave Gate c.1965
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Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic House of 1963 by Andrews, Emmerson and Sherlock. It becomes difficult to imagine what was said at the council's Planning Committee Meeting when it granted consent to the three-storey eyesore in the centre of the shot, and even more so when it is remembered that the same committee was, at about that time, taking the monstrous decision to authorise the demo- lition of the 18th-century Theatre Royal, the Palace Theatre and the Opera House, three Leicester buildings of national importance.
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