The purest sort of Nairn, his entry for Hungerford Lane, "Like meeting a person five hundred years old." The multiple recognition that "Nails you to a place" was somewhat diluted last time I walked Hungerford Lane in the spring of 2008, but it hardly matters now because you can no longer make the journey. The threefold relationship Nairn describes in 1966 is between the Lane, the Arches passage whaich traverses it, and the trains further above; this is substantially the same at the time of Gasson's '88 revision. The threefold relationship now is between "Keep Clear", "Keep Out" and CCTV. Fine democracy, as the great man himself says.
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