{"id":10188,"date":"2016-04-08T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cheap-flats-and-rampant-sexism-postwar-life-was-simpler-but-hardly-better-emma-brockes\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T17:18:12","slug":"cheap-flats-and-rampant-sexism-postwar-life-was-simpler-but-hardly-better-emma-brockes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cheap-flats-and-rampant-sexism-postwar-life-was-simpler-but-hardly-better-emma-brockes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap flats and rampant sexism: postwar life was simpler, but hardly better | Emma Brockes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf present-day London makes you nostalgic for the past, Elizabeth Jane Howard\u2019s memoir will act as a salutary correctiveFew of us need the Panama Papers as\u00a0a reminder that these are dark days\u00a0for London, in which tycoons have turned the capital into a large branch of Foxtons. Against this backdrop it is easy to feel a certain wistfulness for earlier eras, when the city\u2019s principal attraction wasn\u2019t its investment profile but its shabby charm and affordability.I have been thinking about this all week while reading Slipstream, a memoir by the late Elizabeth Jane Howard, published over 10 years ago, which contains a revealing portrait of London after the war. In 1945, Howard and her husband, Peter Scott, bought an entire house in Kensington for \u00a38,000, roughly \u00a3200,000 in modern money, which would of course barely buy you a studio in the same spot today. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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