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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Sainsbury's Baskets

Market porters were a huge thing and there's amazing footage of footage from the kind of 20s and 30s of them carrying stacks of the baskets on their heads because that was how everything was transported in the market. Have you heard of basket Jim? basket Jim is that a person? it's a person he was called Jim Sainsbury I don't know if any relation but he worked at the Covent Garden market in the 1920s and30s. There's footage of him doing 25 baskets in a stack on his head wow it's unbelievable it's the stuff in the baskets yeahI think maybe for the show for this play purposes it might have been emptyYeah definitely still a lot

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