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In 1937, English poet John Betjeman wrote his poem Slough in protest against the expansion of the Slough Trading Estate. The poem bemoans the loss of the area's rural character, and pillories English society's increasing consumerism and the sweatshop conditions caused by large-scale industrial development. An excerpt: "Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough / It isn't fit for humans now...."
The Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy The Office is set on Slough Trading Estate. The opening sequence shows several locations in Slough and the Crossbow House building on the Trading Estate where fictional paper merchants Wernham Hogg are supposedly located.
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