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Hannah Tuson - Cromwell Avenue
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Cromwell Avenue
Hannah Tuson

What happened to all the locals? They've been ripped out
like everything else, haven't they? Like Cromwell Avenue, for
the 21st century, for stainless steel kitchens with Formica tops.
I'll never forget those council officers poking round our lounge

whilst we were having dinner, and in a matter of days, with their
word of God, home was a slum for the bulldozer's teeth, replaced
by a high rise where no one called round for a cup of tea, that
made us take pills and jump from the windows. Something bad

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