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Drayneflete RevealedSir Osbert Lancaster's Drayneflete Revealed, 1949, published in the US as There'll Always Be a Drayneflete 1950, is an illustrated spoof of an antiquarian study of an imaginary English town's development, from its muddy— "Fleet" is the ancient river that runs in sewers under the City of London— Saxon origins, profusely illustrated at each turn with Lancaster's caricature architectural views, always showing the same corner of Drayneflete, as it appears through history. Drayneflete is a fairly high-toned joke, that any reader with some experience of English architecture and the English county way-of-life and the style of English antiquarian notes about parish churches and curious village harvest traditions and the like will recognize, as Lancaster follows the changing fortunes of the architectural development from village to small city, and wittily captures the foibles and fashions of the inhabitants, all rendered in flawlessly deadpan camp, before that sensibility was broadened for general public consumption. Drayneflete rated an entry in Robert Cowan's Dictionary of Urbanism.
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