Or consider JB Priestley's account of travelling out of London in 1933 along the Great Western
road and confronting the endless, low - density exurbia of ribbon sprawl: «We might suddenly have rolled into California... This is the England of arterial and by - pass
roads, of filling
stations and factories that look like exhibition buildings, of giant cinemas and dance - halls and cafes, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworths, motor -
coaches, wireless, hiking, factory girls looking like actresses, grey - hound racing and dirt tracks, swimming pools, and everything given away for cigarette coupons.»
From Victoria
Coach Station When you come out of the coach station and stand on the Buckingham Palace Road, turn left after the traffic lights cross the road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge Road and carry straigh
Coach Station When you come out of the coach station and stand on the Buckingham Palace Road, turn left after the traffic lights cross the road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge Road and carry strai
Station When you come out of the
coach station and stand on the Buckingham Palace Road, turn left after the traffic lights cross the road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge Road and carry straigh
coach station and stand on the Buckingham Palace Road, turn left after the traffic lights cross the road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge Road and carry strai
station and stand on the Buckingham Palace
Road, turn left after the traffic lights cross the road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge Road and carry straight
Road, turn left after the traffic lights cross the
road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge Road and carry straight
road and take on your right Eccleston Bridge
Road and carry straight
Road and carry straight on.