Dr Barnabas Calder is a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Liverpool, and a trustee of the Twentieth Century Society. His book ‘Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism’ (Heinemann 2016) was a finalist for the 2017 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, and he has researched and written extensively on post-war British architecture.

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Allbrook House and the library, with maisonette blocks over shops to the left. Every building in this photo is proposed for demolition, Photo: James O. Davis/Historic England

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