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Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia

by Miranda Sawyer

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This is the Britain of motorways and heritage centres, of campaigning housewives and executive housing estates, of boy racers and Essex girls, of Cheshire wives and Scottish golfers. Readers are taken for an evening at a prestigious hotel night-club, a day in Britain's "most average town," a few hours with Staffordshire's jet-set, and a lovely Sunday drive to see the new B&Q on the bypass. This is not the Britain that is green and pleasant, urban and dangerous, historic and scenic--this is the rest of it, the vast swathes of in-betweeny land, the multiplexed, motorwayed, mind-your-manners, Great British Experience.… (more)
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I come from suburbia. Personally I don't ever want to go back. It's the one place in the world that's further away from anywhere else.

Frederick Raphael, The Glittering Prizes, 1977
The English motorway system is beautiful and strange

Black Box Recorder, 'The English Motorway System', 1999
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For my family

and because of Gavin Hills
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When I was growing up, Wilmslow was a pink jumper, white stilettos kind of a town.
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This is the Britain of motorways and heritage centres, of campaigning housewives and executive housing estates, of boy racers and Essex girls, of Cheshire wives and Scottish golfers. Readers are taken for an evening at a prestigious hotel night-club, a day in Britain's "most average town," a few hours with Staffordshire's jet-set, and a lovely Sunday drive to see the new B&Q on the bypass. This is not the Britain that is green and pleasant, urban and dangerous, historic and scenic--this is the rest of it, the vast swathes of in-betweeny land, the multiplexed, motorwayed, mind-your-manners, Great British Experience.

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