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ON THE ROAD AGAIN

to the Bluebell Railway’s Road Meets Rail event over July 17-18 featured a furniture pantechnicon originally built by Creasy’s of Norwood, SE London, in 1905 says . The van had originally been horse-drawn before having an A-frame fitted to enable it to be pulled by

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