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Big Fish, Small Ponds

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1/4 Whiteley Village and William Whiteley. In 1907 a department store owner, William Whiteley , was shot dead by a man who believed he was Whiteley's illegitimate son. Whiteley's will contained a bequest for the building of a model village near Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, for deserving pensioners. David McKie explores the village and reveals the extraordinary life and death of the merchant and philanthropist. Producer Amanda Hargreaves

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