Hell, it's the coolest place for miles around. They build an ironic, identical pop-up version of Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in its place Artist's impression People quickly move on to gawp at the Fatberg. Others ask why it's got an actual castle on its back. Where it stands proudly yet solemnly behind glass - a remnant of pre-gentrification south London.
The Elephant and Castle sculpture ends up in the Museum of London. Don't be surprised if an elderly cockney bloke pulls up in a Mini Cooper, to ask for directions. But when that's gone, there'll be very little of Maurice Micklewhite's Elephant left. At least he'll have been familiar with the shopping centre, which opened in 1965 - the same time Caine's acting career was skyrocketing. The Alfie actor told us that when he visited his former home of Elephant and Castle in 2017, he barely recognised it. Michael Caine gets very lost He's very lost in this picture. £4.32? Some of that may be in old money, mind. Our estimate for total money accrued in just over half a century. We have never ever ever ever seen anyone put a coin into one of these machines. The people who installed those bubblegum and soft toy vending machines finally count up their earnings
