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Maldon Oral History

Claydon, Ted
(Born 1936) Interviewed July 2021.
Ted speaks about his father’s fishing boat, selling the catch on the beach and enjoying swimming in the lake. He tells precisely how dabs and eels were caught, how he helped with the pleasure and rowing boats on the quay, his apprenticeship at Sadds, being in the RAF, going wild-fowling and how everyone seemed friendlier in the past.
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Themes:
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Sadd's, RAF, Fishing, Prom Lake
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