Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I – Crime and Emergency

Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset

London Road Fire and Police Station, Manchester

Part II – Life and Death

The Royal London Hospital

Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot

Brighton’s Sewer System

Part III – Defence of the Realm

Imber Village, Wiltshire

Orford Ness, Suffolk

Nuclear Bunker, Cambridge

Soviet Foxtrot-class Submarine, Medway

Part IV – People’s Pleasure Domes

New Victoria Cinema, Bradford

West Pier, Brighton

Grand Hotel, Brighton

List of Illustrations

Illustration Credits

Illustrations

Index