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    A stroll alongside Old Father Thames

    Jul 28, 2021 2 minutes
    PATRICK BARKHAM

    Traffic roars away from London. Planes lower themselves gingerly towards the horizon. The river flows past. Brentford supplies a sensation of being the still point in a turning world.

    I walked from the railway station and took the Great West Road. Despite the M4 snaking through buildings to the north, the old Staines road was still six lanes wide and full of cars.

    This was

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