SATURDAY MORNING PICTURES!
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Interviewee name: JOHN PARKINS
Date of event: 1 Jan 1956
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John Parkins lived in the same house in Sutton for 30 years, and talks about having the milk delivered by the milkman with a horse and cart. He also talks about "saturday morning pictures" which cost 6d a week, and involved singing along to the mighty wurlitzer
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