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| | Rushden Images |
 | | Looking back on the eleven years since I left Rushden, several things strike me after taking these photographs: how little you notice change when you live in a town continuously, how many old shoe factories and pubs have been recycled, and how much the car has come to dominate. |
 | | The final thing that struck me is the social mobility of my generation; unlike most of my parents and grandparents' generation, none of my ten cousins live in Rushden at the present time. |
 | | Gauntly, in a few generations, a valley-side had been transformed; a sky line of factory chimneys and railway viaducts, gasometers and chapel cupolas, temperance hotels and bus depots had marched in, replacing old horizons of cornstack and farm and elm. |
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