The pictures in this book were all made on the London Road in St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex. This is the beginning of a London Road, leading from the sea. First built as a toll road in the 1840’s, this is where Robert Tressell completed The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in 1910. London Road has a Co-op for food and another for funerals, a Boots, bakers, cafes and launderettes. Charity shops, pubs and former pubs, a Job Centre Plus, a park, a secondhand car dealer. It is a place of stories, symbols, clues and traces. Often not at first sight. London Road is a particular place, but by description could be anywhere in Britain (27 are listed in the London A-Z alone). London Road is an interstitial zone. Passed through and over, haphazard, symptomatic.
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