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Leighton Buzzard Memories

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Australians On The Cut 1975

Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in Braunston near Rugby, and that six months later - still living on the boat - we'd be (...Read full memory)

Leighton Buzzard, the Grand Union Canal c1955