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Arthur Figgis · September 16th 20, 05:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 16/09/2020 09:50, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:17:22 +0100
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 15/09/2020 10:36, wrote:

Meanwhile the germans and
french rebuilt like for like and now plenty of the formally bombed out towns
are tourists attractions.

Not really, other than a few cases like Luebeck. In many cases in
Germany there is the restored Dom, the Rathaus, the birthplace of
someone locally famous, and maybe one random building the RAF missed,
plus a lot of generic post-war buildings and concrete.

Cologne has some old churches and then modern stuff, Frankfurt has one
block of nice buildings and modern stuff, Dresden has one square and
modern stuff, Berlin had pretty much everything the C20th could throw at

Dresden had its cathedral rebuilt.

Yes, but rebuilding another church which is not the cathedral (although
might be the building you are thinking of?) took a lot longer and was
quite controversial.

And Dresden lost its World Heritage listing because they built...
....a new bridge.

We didn't bother with fripperies like
that here, instead putting up something that resembled a large toilet block
in its place.

Were any cathedrals other than Coventry destroyed? As is often pointed
out, the problem with British towns was not what the Luftwaffe knocked
down, it was what British architects and planners put in its place.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

D A Stocks[_2_] · September 17th 20, 12:33 AM posted to uk.transport.london

"Arthur Figgis" wrote in message
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On 16/09/2020 09:50, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:17:22 +0100
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 15/09/2020 10:36, wrote:

Meanwhile the germans and
french rebuilt like for like and now plenty of the formally bombed out
towns
are tourists attractions.

Not really, other than a few cases like Luebeck. In many cases in
Germany there is the restored Dom, the Rathaus, the birthplace of
someone locally famous, and maybe one random building the RAF missed,
plus a lot of generic post-war buildings and concrete.

Cologne has some old churches and then modern stuff, Frankfurt has one
block of nice buildings and modern stuff, Dresden has one square and
modern stuff, Berlin had pretty much everything the C20th could throw at

Dresden had its cathedral rebuilt.

Yes, but rebuilding another church which is not the cathedral (although
might be the building you are thinking of?) took a lot longer and was
quite controversial.

And Dresden lost its World Heritage listing because they built...
...a new bridge.

We didn't bother with fripperies like
that here, instead putting up something that resembled a large toilet
block
in its place.

Were any cathedrals other than Coventry destroyed? As is often pointed
out, the problem with British towns was not what the Luftwaffe knocked
down, it was what British architects and planners put in its place.

St George's, Southwark

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DAS

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