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The Low Trees of Store Street

by Russell Davies

London — Today this sign means something else, but in the 1960s this was the site of some genuinely low trees. Camden council had asked horticultural avant-gardists Art Fruit to design a planting scheme for Store Street; intended to rejuvenate a slightly neglected area. AF decided that the best response was bonsai and spent a long weekend installing dozens of delicate miniature trees along the kerbs and p...

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Chamber Deep

by Russell Davies

London — When BT took over some of the GPO’s shallower ‘Chambers Deep’ they signed an extensive and detailed undertaking not to reveal the ongoing existence of ‘The O’ (as it’s known) or to pinpoint the locati...

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Door Slam Alley

by Russell Davies

London — It’s quiet now because it’s a Saturday, but wander down this street on any weekday - and keep your ears open - and you’ll notice that the sounds of domestic life seem rather more prominent than usual....

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Snail Trail Trials Centre

by Russell Davies

Stafford — Sericulture - the rearing of silk worms for the production of silk - has been well understood for centuries. Heliciculture - the raising of snails for human consumption - is equally ancient. But it’s...

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