S White
From the call for articles: which is the tool here? the book, or the map? or the multi-function pliers.
When I posted this pair of pliers years ago on the On Site miscellanea page, someone wrote back from Brazil saying they were window dresser’s pliers. They hammer and pull small nails and tacks, they clip wire, they pry things, they are the size of your palm and fit in your pocket. But here, in this case, they simply hold the little street atlas open long enough to take the picture. The 1969 London street atlas is open to a section of the dockland where I worked on the restoration and conversion of an 18th century granary and wharf building in 1975. The atlas was a tool for finding new paths to cycle to from Sloane Street to the Prospect of Whitby next door to our buildings, which I see from Google maps are no more. The pocket road finder is now a tool that checks my memory. q
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