What’s up with them? Who put them there? What do they want?

Camera: ‪@henryhopkin‬

Thanks to John Frankland at the South Woodham Ferrers Local History Society
https://southwoodhamhistory.org/

And thanks to the Sainsbury Archive, who were extremely helpful even though it turns out Sainsbury’s bucked the trend and avoided clock towers entirely.
https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/

Sources:
Kirby, Audrey. (2008). The Architectural Design of UK Supermarkets: 1950 – 2006. [PhD Thesis]. Available at: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/…
Morrison, Kathryn. (2007). English Shops and Shopping: An Architectural History. New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale University Press.
Wright, Lance. (1973). Shopping the Environment. Architectural Review, (March 1973).

ITV Cymru – Carrefour – Wales’ first Hypermarket 1972
• Carrefour – Wales’ first Hypermarket …

“High St.” Under Cover (1964) licenced from British Pathé
https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/87…

South Woodham Ferrers Advert
• South Woodham Ferrers Advert (VA 3/8/…

Historic England blog
https://heritagecalling.com/2023/01/1…

Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-…
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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