vandalism
From ballrooms to billets – the fate of our country houses and their owners in wartime
Judith Lewis focuses on how wives and daughters, left in charge of ancestral homes, coped with vandalism, dispossession and even ruin as a result of requisition in the second world war
It’s a wonder that the Parthenon remains standing at all
From a temple to Athena, it became a Byzantine, then Latin, church, a mosque, a powder magazine and finally a ruin. Lord Elgin’s vandalism was hardly anything new
Criminal damage
Anyone with a passing interest in old British buildings must get angry at the horrors inflicted on our town centres…
