After the World War ended two, a plan was cooked to introduce a circular motorway in London in a bid to modernize the city and reduce the crowd.
But the vision of urban planner Sir Patrick Abercrombi provoked a backlash, and much less of what he proposed.
During an interview with writer and map expert Westbrook, BBC London’s Robert Elms How to demolish your gran’s house For one of some sections of the road Was Made, in Shepherd’s bush.
“He never forgives the city,” Elms said.