The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: High Street

Seend needs a by-pass but the land slopes away dramatically to the south and thus options are limited. Anyway, it would only have the effect of inflating already eye-watering property prices in the village. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens. Cropped quite a lot.

Several years ago I bought the jacket in the photograph in a sale for £10. That was surely a portent for what was to follow. In April, 2016, after years of falling sales, mounting debts and cash flow problems, Austin Reed fell into administration. No viable offers were received for the business. 120 stores closed and 1,000 jobs were lost. Austin Reed was founded by tailor Austin Leonard Reed (1873-1954). The company started as a tailoring business in the City of London in 1900, selling off-the-rack suits that could pass as made-to-measure. The retailer once counted prominent and well-to-do men, including Winston Churchill, as customers. Much later, it counted less prominent and less well-to-do men, including The Limbo Connection, as bargain-hunters. The writing was unfortunately on the wall. Nikon D700 and Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI lens.

The law that these signs must not obstruct the highway, contrary to Section 137 and 148 of the Highways Act 1980 is being ignored. Sections 143 and 149 of the Act give the highways authority powers to remove these items. The authorities rarely use their powers. The law is there not to persecute shop owners, nor to damage business, but to protect blind and partially sighted people, and anyone whose mobility is restricted generally.

Kilkenny, Ireland. 2000.