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- Slough_(poem) comment ""Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in the 1937 collection Continual Dew.The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. The sudden appearance of this "Trading Estate", which was quickly widely reproduced throughout Britain, prompted the poem. Seeing the new appearance of the town, Betjeman was struck by the "menace of things to come".".