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Description: | Alfred Peedle worked as a London Transport Police constable in the 1930s.
These were hard times for Londoners: the Great Depression meant there was little money and much unemployment. In the days before the welfare state, loosing your job could mean losing your home too, or that your family would go hungry. Some people got desperate and Alfred recalls that, at its worst, two or three people a day were throwing themselves in front of trains.
Amongst other things, Alfred here remembers one particularly sad story. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Public Services Work | Temporal: | 1930-1939 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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