This – Northwold Road, Clapton – is the one to beat:
World class. Won awards, that has. Puts the usual two-a-penny run-of-the-mill overflow stains to shame:
Why do they do that? You don't see blocks of flats in Mayfair or Chelsea with unsightly stains down the side. Is there some bye-law that makes them a requirement for council flats? Or is it just tradition? – everyone knows you have to put in a leaky overflow pipe or two when you're building for the riff-raff. It's like a cultural signifier, innit?
Mick Hartley 
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