I’m not sure how much traction this has but I’ve been reading the Dave Davies biography. As some of you know I have a link to Muswell Hill and when he mentions places there I can picture them. The John Baird pub (now called the Village Green ,wonder where they got the idea for the name from) The Clissold Arms, Les Aldrich music shop (don’t look for it, it closed after 78 years) and others. The girlfriend he got pregnant went to Henrietta Barnet school for girls, one of my first girlfriends went there despite me living in Yorkshire. His girlfriend lived on Dukes Avenue which is where my wife lived.
What I’m wondering is when reading a book if you don’t know a place do you picture a place you know? When you imagine say the Les Aldrich shop could be it be in your mind the guitar shop you bought your first guitar or albums from?
Reading the Norfolk thread I don’t know a lot of the places but I know what a pier looks like it may not be the correct pier for Cromer but I can make a guess as to what it looks like. I » Continue Reading.