Caroline Donnellan, Towards Tate Britain. Public Policy, Private Vision

The 1970s and 1980s made it difficult to imagine that London would soon become the successor to Paris and New York as the centre of the international art world, and that its docks, still scarred from the Blitz and derelict from the demise of industry, would soon form part of what is considered central London. Southwark, then, was far from its present state and could not yet boast a tube station, a footbridge linking it to Saint Paul’s Cathedral, a scenic walk along the river and swanky shops ...