Small Town

Inspired by XTC's The Everyday Story of Smalltown, this Tumblr both celebrates the uniqueness and reflects on some of the dispiritedness of small town Great Britain Smalltown, coughing in the toilet Now who on earth would spoil it Will you pull down Smalltown

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Deserted High Street, Kington, Herefordshire

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Locked up and closed for winter

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Small town Baptist church, Okehampton

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Actually it's this way to Worcester. Another road sign on a wall in Leominster

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The road to Worcester. Miscellaneous signs on the side of a building in Leominster

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An English scene: market house and red telephone box, Newent, Gloucestershire

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This strikes me as an unusual position for a clock on a church tower. There again there may be 100s of off-centre church clocks and I just haven’t noticed before. This one is in Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire.

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Local social club

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Strange take on wellbeing as this health food store seems predominately focused on home brew beer

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Access- Your flexible friend. It feels like it must be at least 20 years since the demise of Access cards and yet in 2014, at this seaside bed and breakfast, they are apparently still accepted

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Ben & Jerry's with wonderful orange plastic seats

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Unamused amusements

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Waiting for the big match

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Camelford Camel. The historic Cornish town of Camelford has no proven connection to the legendary King Arthur other than "Camel" is very similar to "Camelot". It also has no connections with camels. Notwithstanding this, the town hall weather vane depicts a golden camel.

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This football pitch slopes steeply from left to right but the goal remains at a perfect right angle resulting in the left hand post being substantially shorter than the right hand post. The pitch even has some flood lighting. It was a shame there was no game going on. This pitch can be found in a park in Camelford, Cornwall

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A collection of random small town public toilets in Cornwall

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I couldn't decide whether this was the act of a literary yarn bomber or a piece of knitted advertising outside the local library in Bridgnorth, Shropshire