Experience Leadville Executed By Edward Platt Exhibited In Leaflet

history book, the history of an urban road, and the story of the footbridge,

"One afternoon in January, as I drove along Western Avenue, I did what I had never done before: I parked the car in a sidestreet and walked on to the road.
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In "Leadville," Edward Platt tells the story of Western Avenue from the optimism of its construction in thes to its partial demolition seventy years later.
It is a tale of the city and the traffic, of suburbia and the dreams of its inhabitants, and of our senseless and allconsuming love affair with the motor car.


'Platt has created a drama that is not only Orwellian in its attention to what you might call the state of the nation.
. . but almost Dickensian in the recording of the colour and pathos of its inhabitants' Tim Lott, "The Times"

'endlessly entertaining an original talent and an excellent book.
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Norman Lewis

'A reporter of fearless imagination, ' Simon Jenkins, The Times.

Leadville won a Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non Fiction.
Absorbing and readable journalistic book about Western Avenue, one of the big dual carriageways entering London from the west, the people who live and work along it and the effects on them of plans to widen the road.


It was recommended to me because I was going on about Concretopia it's not as good as that but is interesting in the same way.
I liked because I know the Western Avenue so well! Totally enjoyed this authors writing, Thought the

book would be absolutely boring, however really liked the way the book moved forward and unfolded.
Made me appreciate peoples lives and also realise how important where we live is for all of us.
I have written three books: Leadville: A Biography of the APicador, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was short listed for two other awards The City of Abraham Picador,and The Great Flood: Travels through a Sodden Landscape Picador, which was a RadioBook of the Week.
I am a contributing writer at the New Statesman, and a regular contributor to other newspapers and magazines.
I was born in Essex in, and grew up in Hampshire, Northumberland, and the Wirral, I have lived in London since, .