In the 1980s, I went house hunting in London. This took me to Blackheath, just over the River Thames from my newspaper offices in the Isle of Dogs, in the docklands.

A real estate boom triggered by Margaret Thatcher’s economic reforms was gentrifying the place. Restaurants, bars, and shops were springing into commercial life all around the heath. Builders, painters, and decorators were renovating homes looking on to the green, a short commute to the City and its riches.

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