“It was architecture – not the main concern of the Science Museum show – that was actually most influenced by the Dan Dare dream of a futuristic Britain. Not only were the strips pacy, patriotic reads, they were astonishing in terms of their architectural prescience. Hampson pushed design boundaries, showing how a bowler-hat, pinstripe Britain could endure quite happily in a future world of atomic-era design. His imaginings were eagerly lapped up by some of the youngsters who would go on to create Britain’s highly regarded school of hi-tech, space-age influenced architecture.”