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Article: My farewell to Kensington; Chief feature writer Paddy Shennan meets Terence Davies - acclaimed as Britain's greatest living director - on the eve of the Liverpool world premiere of his latest film, Of Time And The City.(News)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2008
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Byline: Paddy Shennan
A WAVE of sadness and melancholy washes over Terence Davies as he walks among the ghosts of his Liverpool past.
"So much has gone and so much of what is left looks so tatty," he says in Kensington, where he was born and brought up.
Home for the London-based 62-year-old film director, in his mind at least, will always be 18Kensington Street: "Our house was just here," he says, forlornly, standing on a pavement along the side of the George Gawith taxi depot.
Another landmark in his life, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, on ...