Between town and country - Country diary, 18 November 1918

18 November 1918 Within a few yards of the pitheads and polluted streams ploughing is well on its way Many parts of these islands would be troublesome to classify if one allowed only the two divisions of town and country. There are miles upon miles in Durham and in Derbyshire and South Wales and here in Lanarkshire which certainly are not town miles, and almost as certainly not country; at least not “pure country.” For great heaps of slag rear their unnatural straight lines above the