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GOING TO THE CIRCUS

I expect you had there same Circuses which came to Coventry. I was always taken for my birthday in November. I just loved animals. Not realising then it wasn't natural. Gerry Cottle and Zeppos Chipperfields etc. Some were a bit down at heel. Tigers sitting up and begging on these tatty handlebar things, a boxing kangaroo with lethal hind feet, Mum & Nan thought it a bit cruel, a big white horse with a weighty mature lady dressed like a portly ballerina skipping on his back. I remember the wind wafting up under the wooden seats, and ladies didn't wear trousers then, not on outings, and we never sat at the front as Nan had a bad experience with some liberty horses! Brandy snaps and candy floss, all teeth rotters but happy days.
 
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