In Search of Oldton



I remember Oldton as a small rural Eden, but on the other side of town things were different.

Here we find a block of flats, a giant car park and a superstore - all the things we associate with modern urban living. You can see the flats in one of the photos taken on Matthews Street. No-one as yet has written to me about what it was like to live there.

The superstore - I think - replaced the Capitol Cinema remembered by Pamela, Muriel and Martin.

What with this and the motorway, it looks suspiciously like a wave of concrete and tarmac encroached on Oldton from the north west, rather like an Ice Age glacier slowly but surely creeping over the landscape, crushing everything in its path.

Writers for the Future