![]() This is the same slab of stone my mother scrubbed sixty years ago, once a week on her kneeling mat, scrubbing it clean. Jeff Young: Sometimes I go to the house I was born in and look at the doorstep, made of sandstone, worn by weather and footsteps. Growing up in the countryside, it felt like those markers of change – like buildings coming and going – were less apparent, and instead it felt governed by tree time, church time, field boundary time, which all seem to have a longer lease of life. ![]() Simon Moreton: You write in Ghost Town about the life and death and the persistence of Liverpool, and how people – or their memory – become bound up in the city’s landscapes. Here Simon speaks to the author Jeff Young, whose book Ghost Town was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2020, and which explores similar ideas to WHERE? ![]() To celebrate the publication of WHERE? we’re running a short series on The Clearing, edited by Simon Moreton, around the theme of Grief, Place Landscape. ![]()
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