Albion Place, at the heart of Erlsley’s bustling municipal centre, looked pretty much the way you’d expect with a name like that.  Proud Victorian facades in blonde sandstone faced each other across a boulevard-width street.  Big doors and porticos every thirty yards and tall sash windows on every floor.  Number 28 featured a grand porch held up by four smooth columns on a two step base, and the Union Jack on an angled flagpole above.  Twinned brass plates on the forward columns announced ...