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There's a bright side to Brockley

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040829
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Julia Llewellyn Smith's otherwise sympathetic interview with David Lodge (Review, August 22), was unfair to Brockley, the south-east London suburb in which the novelist grew up. She quotes him saying Brockley was "where university was an unknown". True, many of his contemporaries thought it a wasteland of soot-encrusted Victorian and Edwardian bricks, but it had had its quota of famous residents - from a Premonstratensian priory to David Jones, the artist and poet, via Edgar Wallace, Charles Stewart Parnell and Henry Williamson.

And many of us did go to university. Among the members of the ...

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