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Monthly Archives: August 2011
30.8.31
Next morning the clergyman coming to early service caught us and turned us out, though not very disagreeably. We went on through Sevenoaks to Seal, and a man we met advised us to try for a job at Mitchell’s farm, … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, apples, candles, church, clergyman, early service, evening service, farm, food, Ginger, Government inspectors, grocer, hop-fields, hop-picking, hops, hot water, Irishwoman, job, Kronk, lychgate, Maidstone, Mitchell, potatoes, raspberries, Seal, Sevenoaks, sugar, tea, theft, tobacco
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29.8.31
When we had gone a mile or two we came to an orchard, and the others at once went in and began stealing apples. I had not been prepared for this when we started out, but I saw that I … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, baker, bread, butcher, cigarette, fires, homosexuality, honeysuckle, Ide Hill, Liverpool Jew, meat, orchard, potatoes, sausages, Scotch, Sevenoaks, sex, spike, teashop, Trafalgar Square, Tramp Major, tramps, Workhouse Major, workshouse, Young Ginger
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28.8.31
The next day in the afternoon four of us started out for the hop-fields. The most interesting of the men with me was a youth named Ginger, who is still my mate when I write this. He is a strong, … Continue reading
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Tagged Borstal, bread, Bromley, drums, Ginger, hop-fields, hop-picking, hops, Little Grey Home in the West, Liverpool Jew, louse, margarine, prison, tea, Trafalgar Square, Woolworth's, Young Ginger
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27.8.31
At about eight in the morning we all had a shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, and I spent most of the day reading Eugenie Grandet, which was the only book I had brought with me. The sight of a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Buffalo Bill, Eugenie Grandet, fleas, fountains, jam tarts, Kent, kip, rats, Southwark Bridge Road, Trafalgar Square, tramps, Wordsworth
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26.8.31
The next day I went to Trafalgar Square and camped by the north wall, which is one of the recognised rendezvous of down and out people in London. At this time of year the square has a floating population of … Continue reading
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Tagged business people, café, church, coffee shops, Covent Garden, doughnuts, fires, fruit, Irishmen, kippers, milk, police, porters, prostitutes, St Martin's, St Martin's Lane, tea, Trafalgar Square, tramps
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25.8.31
On the night of the 25th I started off from Chelsea with about 14/- in hand, and went to Lew Levy’s kip[1] in Westminster Bridge Road. It is much the same as it was three years ago, except nearly all … Continue reading
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Tagged beds, Billingsgate, café, Chelsea, fire, kip, LCC, lodging houses, tea, Westminster Bridge Road
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