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    BARRY THE BANTAM

    Oct 03, 2018 2 minutes
    WORDS GEOFF SEDDON
    ILLUSTRATIONS
    JEREMY & MARY ANN FURNESS

    JEREMY Furness is a longtime classic bike owner and racer who, with his wife, Mary Ann, has published a series of children’s books based on the character of a BSA Bantam named Barry, who works for the post offi ce delivering mail.

    “I’d always been told to write about something I knew well,” Jeremy says. “I chose the

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