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The strangest country I ever visited was England…

Portsmouth, Hampshire

…but I visited it at a very early age…

Royal Pavillion, Brighton, Sussex

… and so became a little queer myself.

Colchester, Essex

England is extremely subtle; and about the best of it there is something almost secretive…

The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall, Staffordshire, WS2

… it is an amateur even more than aristocratic in tradition…

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, York, Yorkshire, YO1

… it is never official.

Folkestone, Kent

From GK Chesterton’s Autobiography (1936)

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Mr Fulford: Mr Cale tells me that you spent the weekend in Brighton, I imagine you were involved some extent in the disturbances there?

Royal Pavillion, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1

Jimmy: Yeah I was there
Mr Fulford: Weren’t arrested or taken or anything like that were you?
Jimmy: No.

Aung San Suu Kyi Mural, Vine Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1

Mr. Fulford: I must say I find your attitude incomprehensible. I feel I must warn you Cooper that we can’t tolerate this kind of absentism amongst our junior staff. You got a good steady job here Cooper, plenty of young men would give their eye-teeth to be in your shoes.

Snnoper's Paradise, Kensington Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1

Jimmy: Oh yeah? Well find one then
Mr. Fulford: I beg your pardon?

James Brown Mural, Kensington Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1

Jimmy: You heard I said find one then. Yeah I’ll tell you what you can do with your eye-teeth and your job, you can take the mail and the frankin machine and all that other rubbish I have to go about with and you can stuff them right up your arse.

From Dave Humphries’ screenplay for Franc Roddam’s Quadrophenia (1979)

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