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The dung heap in St George’s Lane

ByDavid Shaw Home Page 20 August 201718 January 2025

In 2005 an old friend, the late Kenneth Pinnock, published a small autobiographical booklet called Wheels: A Boy in Canterbury in the 1920s. He described the premises of his father’s horse-drawn haulage, taxi and bus business in St George’s Lane with its stable block in the Mews: an acre or thereabouts of yards, stables and garages…

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