Laura Gascoigne

Thrilling: Hieroglyphs – unlocking ancient Egypt, at the British Museum, reviewed

Plus: the Sainsbury Centre traces the visual history of our love affair with all things pharaonic

‘Ruins of the Temple of Kom Ombo (Upper Nile, Egypt)’, 1842-3, by David Roberts. Credit: © Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service 
issue 05 November 2022

‘Poor old Mornington Crescent, I feel sorry for it with this highly made-up neighbour blocking the view it had enjoyed,’ commiserated Professor C.H. Reilly in the Architects’ Journal in 1928. He was talking about the new reinforced-concrete Carreras cigarette factory designed by architects Marcus Evelyn and Owen Hyman Collins that had just gone up across from the station.

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