Leadville

<p>One afternoon in January 1995 as I drove along Western Avenue I did what I had never done before: i parked the car in a side-street and walked on to the road...</p><p> In <i>Leadville</i> Ed Platt tells the story of Western Avenue from the optimism of its construction in the 1920s to its partial demolition seventy years later. It is a tale of the city and the traffic of suburbia and the dreams of its inhabitants and of our senseless and all-consuming love affair with the motor car.</p><p> 'Platt has created a drama that is not only Orwellian in its attention to what you might call the state of the nation . . . but almost Dickensian in the recording of the colour and pathos of its inhabitants' Tim Lott <i>The Times</i></p>