The Dark Room: “The Borderlands” by Matt Sawyer

The Dark Room: “The Borderlands” by Matt Sawyer

The Britain of the 1970s now feels like a country undergoing a dramatic transformation. Pulling ourselves away from mid-century austerity, we attempted to embrace new technology, new lifestyles, even a new form of currency – while also, perhaps, harbouring nagging doubts about the tidal wave of modernity rapidly racing inland to sweep away the last vestiges of post-war grimness. It’s a transformation captured perfectly by the mid-1970s childhood…