Turning Transatlantic: BRITISH VOCABULARY BUILDING WITH SQUEEZE
When the British Rail local pulls out of London’s Victoria Station, crosses over the Thames, and 15 minutes later arrives in Clapham Junction, you’ve changed worlds. Instead of the dignified, stately vision of London familiar from spy movies or Masterpiece Theatre, you’re faced with the graying towers of subsidized housing, long bare patches of barren ground, and whatever crumbling pre-war blocks survived the Blitz.
Turning Transatlantic: BRITISH VOCABULARY BUILDING WITH SQUEEZE
by
Toby Goldstein
When the British Rail local pulls out of London’s Victoria Station, crosses over the Thames, and 15 minutes later arrives in Clapham Junction, you’ve changed worlds. Instead of the dignified, stately vision of London familiar from spy movies or Masterpiece Theatre, you’re faced with the graying towers of subsidized housing, long bare patches of barren ground, and whatever crumbling pre-war blocks survived the Blitz. The streets of South London areas like Clapham, Battersea and Deptford get their color from a population attuned to the everyday business of living. The working men’s pubs sell cider on draft, and the fish ’n’ chips still come wrapped in newspaper. Squeeze calls these districts home, and with increasing success, write about what they know best.