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WHEN I WAS A LAD

on BBC Home Service Basic

by Fred Dickinson
Eighty-four-year-old Fred Dickinson talks about his mother's memories of the first railways, about life in rural Walworth, street cries, Jack-in-the-Green, the horse-bus, and helping his sisters on with their bustles.
Recorded broadcast of April 11

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Fred Dickinson
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