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Boy in Whitehall

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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by Harold Melvin

Nowadays the new entrant to the Civil Service has Welfare Officers to look after him and numerous associations and societies he can join, but he will never play 'Brugby' or range over the roof-tops from Downing Street to the Horse Guards. Harold Melvin recalls what it was like to be a very young Civil Servant in 1904.

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Harold Melvin
Source: Radio Times

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