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We lay last night at a place called Wigton -- also in half-mourning -- with the wonderful peculiarity that it had no population, no business, no streets to speak of; but five linendrapers within range of our small windows, one linendraper's next door, and five more linendrapers round the corner.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 Charles Dickens 1841
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Anyone with information can call Wigton police on 0845 3300247.
News round-up 2010
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Anyone with information can call Wigton police on 0845 3300247.
News round-up 2010
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Anyone with information can call Wigton police on 0845 33 00 247, or Crimestoppers on 0800
News round-up 2009
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Anyone with information can call Wigton police on 0845 33 00 247, or Crimestoppers on 0800
News round-up 2009
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Anyone with information can call Wigton police on 0845 33 00 247, or Crimestoppers on 0800
News round-up 2009
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Right at the beginning of the first episode, he goes back to the pub in Wigton that his parents ran, and says: We were working class, and you don't lose that.
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He went from Wigton to Oxford and then snagged one of only three trainee places at the BBC "at a time when it was staffed almost entirely by public school boys".
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Because Melvyn, the working-class boy from Cumbria, now Lord Bragg of Wigton, has gone and made a whole BBC series about it.
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And, quite possibly, the small working-class boy from Wigton still, too.
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