My heart bleeds for Newbury

My heart bleeds for Newbury; for its has been eviscerated.  Twenty years since last I visited this market town some 60 miles from London. No doubt naive of me to be surprised, but it's like another country if you live as I do in central London.  I can't imagine what sort of economic policy could fix this in less than a generation. We need to change our society.

Wednesday lunchtime, Newbury