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by John Grindrod, author of Iconicon and Concretopia

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June 19, 2014

Life and Death

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June 15, 2014

Full of lost luggage and lost souls

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June 08, 2014

Licking Modernity

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The Ladybird Book of Postwar Rebuilding

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May 27, 2014

Top Ten pics from the JR James Archive

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May 26, 2014

Kitten Kong

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Concretopia - the paperback!

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May 08, 2014

10 amazing official postwar plans

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John Grindrod: London, United Kingdom; Hello, I'm the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain and Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt. Contact me on: dirtymodernscoundrel@gmail.com, @Grindrod on Twitter, and facebook.com/Concretopia

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