David Gray's pictures of the week 5-2-2007

DAVID GRAY photography
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Last week's pictures lamented the decline of traditional cafes, under attack by corporate coffee chains. A similar fate faces independent shops, but this week's feature celebrates the continuing vitality of individual retailing in at least one small part of England - Brighton's North Laine district. The external decoration of shops here shows how signs, murals and sculptures liven up streets that still - at least for the time being - avoid the dead hand of chain store blandness. All the pictures were taken in February 2007.

Hocus Pocus (Gardner Street) gifts and alternative culture (image 2711-21)

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