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Coincidentally the name of the fictional town in the book I'm reading is Deptford. The town is not really fictional though, it's based on Thamesville, Ontario. I wonder if this is where the author got the name?
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Could be - I don't think there are any other Deptfords of any significance in the UK, and it's quite neat to chose a town that was built by the Thames as a substitute for Thamesville...
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Well I'm glad to hear that london has such strict guidelines to protect it's history. It seems like Europe as a whole takes great strides to protect it's historic structures. I guess after ww2 So much was lost that people realized it was very important to save what's left. Here in America after ww2 we could have cared less about protecting our history. By the 1980s most of our cities and even small towns had decimated downtowns that might have as well been bombed out by the Luftwaffe.
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Yes, I think the listing system really began in the UK because the authorities had to decide what to restore and what to give up on after WW2. However, a lot of historic structures were destroyed here in the 50s and 60s, too. It was only really in the 80s that the whole process really got going properly.