diary Clive Aslet, the editor of the Country Life magazine
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22 November 2012
New Pimlico resident Peter York invited Country Life editor Clive Aslet to talk about its history last night at the Westminster Boating Base. Aslet explained how the 19th-century developer Thomas Cubitt had used child labour and drunken bricklayers to build Pimlico up from rubble, transforming it into the place of middle-class gentility that it is today.
Pimlico is sometimes referred to as Lower Belgravia, a nod to its traditionally more aristocratic neighbour, but as one audience member pointed out, local pride in the area actually represents “the middle classes at their most stouthearted — they’re not going to be done down by Belgravia”.
