Essex has been used as a kind of experiment by various utiopian idealists over the years (the above is the old Bata factory in East Tilbury, whose worker housing is still occupied), mostly without success, but it has lead to some amazingly good modern architecture:
Meades' also points out that Essex is used by people from London as an escape and that the buildings reflect this. His opinions do grate a little, but he isn't boring. And he is right, in a way. Essex is very much out there.
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