Mrs Mouse and I were recently invited to dinner by friends who live in Rowley Way. It's a curious street in north London, next to Abbey Road – as in the album by the Beatles.
Rowley Way is the unofficial name for the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, a housing scheme of 520 flats and houses built in 1978 by the architect Neave Brown.
Now, like many readers, I am guessing, I have an in-built prejudice against modern, Brutalist