When will someone put the whole of Pevsner online? I mean the architectural historian Nikolaus, not the fictional one-legged footballer Baldy Pevsner. The thought came to me when browsing the public library’s copy of the Sussex volume, written with Ian Nairn. I know they’re out of date, but even so. It was also be fun to give their words on Seaford wider circulation, “the least gay of the chain of south coast seaside places…It has no pavilion, no amusement arcade and a short esplanade which, at the time of writing [1965-TR], appears far from thriving”.

Nairn, Ian and Pevsner, Nikolaus

The buildings of England: Sussex

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965

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