The grandeur of GT was its attractive wooden buildings, but the wood material became its grievance. I remember the King George V Hotel on Longden Street that was pulled down in 1974. A century ago it was the town's premier hotel. Before that, when the British writer Anthony Trollope visited Guyana in 1859, he stayed at the Hotel Clarendon which he described as GT's "best". Also made of wood, unfortunately, and so decayed and disappeared. Compare the Clarendon building to the Public Buildings that was constructed in the 1830s and still standing. It's only a matter of time before other notable wooden buildings exit the city's landscape too. The ongoing construction trend is concrete, steel and glass.