Submitted by Steve Dowding on Tue, 07/04/2009 - 10:27.
Maud, As Martin has written above Iain's writing is always multi-layered. He is fiercely critical of the Labour Party's destruction of our culture and heritage in the name of regeneration and community-building. The Empire theatre provides an example of a sucessful community-led restoration, literally across the Town Hall Square from the villains. From the third chapter, "...the Hackney Empire: the sheer cliff of that much loved, much restored old music hall. The rose-red endstop of the Town Hall precinct..."
That rose red Empire
Maud, As Martin has written above Iain's writing is always multi-layered. He is fiercely critical of the Labour Party's destruction of our culture and heritage in the name of regeneration and community-building. The Empire theatre provides an example of a sucessful community-led restoration, literally across the Town Hall Square from the villains. From the third chapter, "...the Hackney Empire: the sheer cliff of that much loved, much restored old music hall. The rose-red endstop of the Town Hall precinct..."