Reflections on The Black Cap
Will A Proposed Development End This London Insitution?
Simon Watney writes about the history of The Black Cap, and the cruel face of modern developmental planning.
Permalink“The fate of The Black Cap also matters in wider terms, since its history goes back many centuries, like that of The Worlds End on the opposite side of the High Street, which since at least the seventeenth-century had been famous as The Old Mother Red Cap, its name only being changed most regrettably by new owners in the late 1980s.
