To be fair, some of these places have since been painted black just because that’s what people came to expect. 10 Downing Street is an example and there’s some

To be fair, some of these places have since been painted black just because that’s what people came to expect. 10 Downing Street is an example and there’s something about it in this piece on its reconstruction: https://history.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/19/rebuilding-no-10-downing-street/ https://history.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/19/rebuilding-no-10-down...