Most UK cities looked like this for the entire portion of my life I wasn't allowed to vote yet. I grew up in London (and slightly in Edinburgh area) and the ce

Most UK cities looked like this for the entire portion of my life I wasn't allowed to vote yet. I grew up in London (and slightly in Edinburgh area) and the centres of Edinburgh and Glasgow were pitch black all over right into the late 1980s when the sandwashing began. This photo of London St Pancras station, for example, looks like it is colour-drained, but that's really how it looked until they washed the building in the 90s. https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1818/43873591751_154164f8d5_b.jpg https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1818/43873591751_154164f8d5_... That sign was inlined with slightly-feeble red neon, and that will remain my mental image of how this station looks even though obviously it's been utterly transformed since: https://blackcablondon.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/st-pancras-front.jpg https://blackcablondon.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/st-pancra...