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Posted by Jock on June 20, 2022 at 07:53:37 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Shown posted by Alan Hakim on June 09, 2022 at 01:41:54:

"All tickets must be shewn" was displayed by a ticket barrier at Greenford station in the 1950s, albeit leading to part of the station that was no longer regularly used. A boarding school boy stumbles over pronouncing the word "shewn" during a church service in the BBC TV dramatisation of the bookTinker Tailor Soldier Spy.



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