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Culture matters with James Walsh

“We’ve got family around us, and mum doesn’t want to move.”

“We’ve got a support group in the area...”

I’m sat on a paving slab in Cressingham Gardens estate, south London, trying but largely failing to sketch a vista that has far too much going on for my limited artistic talents. I’m at Drawing The Line, on a sunny autumn afternoon.

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