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O Dreamland, Lindsay Anderson’s Free Cinema short film, is a cynical look at Margate’s amusement park at its heyday. Anderson ushers us in with the coach loads of day trippers, and gives us a 12-minute glimpse of the Dreamland of 1953.

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Having long overtaken its rival Sainsbury’s, Tesco is not only the UK’s largest retailer, but one of the most successful worldwide; in 2005, it was the first British supermarket to make a profit of more than £2bn. This figure has since risen to £2.8bn (April 2008).

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Brighton’s first pier, the Chain Pier, was built in the 1820s as a landing stage for boats crossing the Channel. But it quickly became a popular spot for visiting Londoners to promenade and take in the sea air. The pier was the subject of one of Constable’s “six-foot landscapes”, despite the painter’s dislike for the way the coast had been given over to holidaymaking; he once described Brighton as “only Piccadilly or worse by the sea-side”.

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