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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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L.S. Lowry
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(Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1887–1976)
Painter who depicted the industrial northwest as a bleak urban landscape in which tiny stick-like figures go in a lonely and detached manner about their business. Born in Manchester, he often painted in the adjacent city of *Salford, which now owns the main collection of his work (displayed from 2000 in an arts centre named after him). Until retirement he painted only in the evenings, having a full-time job in a property company and progressing in his career from rent collector to chief cashier.
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