ABSTRACT
Author focused her thoughts on Euston, Old Oak Common and Crewe, based on our being very vocal advocates of placemaking and city-making first and railway lines and stations second. She started and continued the Newcastle re-involvement centred on social mobility, as it became the evident ingredient that singled out her life in retrospect. And yet, as her Farrell Review report emphasises repeatedly, it's the everyday, the ordinary that needs our professional help and should be the focus of our skills. Most of our environment does not involve any architects' or any designers' input whatsoever, and it shows. The archive and Farrell Centre at Newcastle University, it is intended, will play their part in locally driving change in social mobility.
