Re: "Kids of that time and place" (was Broadening one's horizons)


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 25, 2003 at 06:43:31 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: "Kids of that time and place" (was Broadening one's horizons) posted by Laurence Monkhouse on July 25, 2003 at 06:09:39:

I think so too. AR actually lived in the places that he wrote about, and if local people had disliked it I dare say that they would have said so. The few scraps of evidence I have seen seem to point towards AR himself being a bit irritated by his "fame", but I have not seen a suggestion that local people disliked it. After all, he was bringing in visitors, and visitors spend money. The Lakes, the Broads and Pin Mill and Walton were all places where people went to spend their holidays before AR wrote about them, and if a few more went, after he had written, well and good!

This may not be a perfect analogy, but we live a couple of hundred yards from the East Suffolk railway line, which remains open for passengers mainly because it is used to transport nuclear waste from Sizewell power stations. I don't know anyone locally who wants the line closed or who thinks that nuclear power is a Bad Thing!


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