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Essex Book Festival’s Criminally Good Afternoon Tea at the Golden Age of Crime Weekend

Posted on 26 March 2017 by admin

In the 1950s, my grandad was a Special Constable, working the streets of Southend-on-Sea. He told me that he’d often be approached (perhaps “set upo...

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