"Each one is a little square of commerce that can also be one of humour, understanding and even friendship — a respite from loneliness, especially for the elderly, so long as both sides engage. The disappearance of shops, where the commercial exchange can be encased in a social one, will be something of a disaster if nothing of equal social use takes their place."From this Financial Times piece by John Lloyd.
A lovely piece of reporting.
Image: Woolworths closed down in Hunstanton, 2008 - by Alan Parkinson - shared under CC license
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