If London were on fire…

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  … what ONE thing would you save? It can be anything ‚ a thing, a building, a place, a tradition, an atmosphere, a community, an accent, a word, a food… eg, National Theatre, Old Compton Street, pubs, the steel pan players outside Brixton tube, cockney rhyming slang,… The next issue of the London Society Journal will be looking at conservation, and we want to put in your responses as a take on the broadest sense of conservation. So – what would you pull from the flames? Leave your comments below, or put your answer here.  

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