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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https://howwasschool.allfie.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/my-cycley.mp3

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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.

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