HANSOM GRAVE CONSEQUENCES

摘要

One of my colleagues got a guided tour of the newly revamped Fairfield Halls in Croydon recently. Thankfully, acres of asbestos had been removed from the Ashcroft Theatre but I was a little sad to hear that the venue's famous safety curtain - which features a lovely portrait of the late Dame Peggy Ashcroft, a Croydon local and after whom the theatre was named - had to be dumped on account of its dangerous contents. It was labelled, rather ingloriously for an Oscar winner, 'industrial waste'.