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Would Betjeman recognise anything about today’s north Cornwall?

The new-build houses, the galleries, the 4x4s… it’s a long way from sand in the sandwiches and wasps in the tea

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

In a documentary filmed at the end of his life, Sir John Betjeman, who lived in the village of Trebetherick on the Camel estuary in north Cornwall, famously regretted not having had more sex. That problem doesn’t seem apply to today’s party crowd in the area. Nearby Rock and Polzeath are thronging with bingeing public-school teenagers, traffic jams of gleaming 4x4s, and new-build houses with plasma screens, wet rooms and all that hedge-funders require.

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