I wrote & submitted the Listing Application for this incredible mural series, assisted in it’s relocation and wrote an article on the subject for C20 Magazine (Autumn 2011 edition) during my time working at The Twentieth Century Society back in 2010/2011. I felt it only right that the C20 Society got a ‘shout-out’ in relation to the subject. What a pleasure to be reminded of all the hard work on all sides that went in to saving this masterpiece.

I would like to thank the ongoing vital work that The Twentieth Century do and especially their Murals Campaign which has seen the preservation of countless Murals around the UK thus far.

Thanks!

Let us celebrate that and try not to dwell too long on the fact that a perfectly serviceable, if undistinguished modern office block, probably with decades more of useful life in front of it, is being demolished for no other reason than to put up another, probably equally if not more undistinguished, concrete and glass cliff-face which will surely accelerate the removal of all architectural character from central London.

It was the last Central Telegraph Offices where telegrams would be dispatched all over the world. Imagine for a moment all the good, bad and indifferent messages that went through this building. I am quite sad in a nostalgic way to see it go.