Hints and tips:
...From Canning Town eastward, it runs next to the busy A13 (“Trunk Road to the Sea”, for those familiar with Billy Bragg’s parody of “Route 66”)....
...It said police had been called to the Wendy’s restaurant because Brooks was sleeping in a car blocking the drive-through lane....
...booming of the sea far below recedes a little as we turn to descend the far side of the Cap to the ruins of St Gabriel’s church, one of the few remnants of the village of Stanton St Gabriel, to follow the lane...
...Dominic Sandbrook’s latest book is ‘State of Emergency’ (Allen Lane £12.99)...
...Afterwards, I head on to the north Dorset town of Shaftesbury, along single-track country lanes where green verges are studded with brilliant-yellow dandelions....
...The text by furniture manufacturer Basil Hyman and collector Steven Braggs is erudite and (like the furniture) none-too-heavy but it is the original material that speaks loudly across the decades....
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