My office window overlooks an open-air car park in Hackney, situated in the cellar of a demolished building. Years ago someone told me this was the site of a bombed-out building, and the new web-site confirms it – it’s listed as Kiffen Street, located between Clere Street and Leonard Street in EC2A. All that’s been done to convert it to a car park is to tarmac over the floor and build two ramps down into the lower level. The side walls have been left untouched and the smashed brickwork and concrete of the old building (probably a warehouse) are still visible.

I remember coming into London with my parents in the sixties and seeing huge piles of rubble behind wooden fencing; it only sunk in years afterwards that many of these were WWII bomb-sites that still had to be cleared for rebuilding.