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Getting to School
Jack Baxter: My ‘Cycley’
Jack was born in 1931 in Morecambe in Lancashire. As a boy he helped his father on the family fishing boat, not starting school until the age of thirteen. After school he went back to his life as a fisherman with his father and brother.
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Here Jack remembers cycling to school.
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Yeah a bit, I used to ride to school on my own, you'll laugh this one, on my cycley - the bike I used to have, as my brothers went to different school.Explore more
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