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•MODERN GRANNY.” CAR AND AEROPLANE. LONDON, July 4. “I am a modern granny,” said Mrs Drown, of Leamington, who won the price for the motorist travelling the longest distance to attend the Women’s 'victor Club’s rally at Croydon aerodrome. Airs Brown, who was the oldest driver at the rally, lias two grandchildren. ‘‘l am a proper speed bug,” she sa r d ‘‘Nothing would please me more than to drive a racing car at 90 miles an hour. Motor cycling is the straiglitest road to health.” Mrs Brown wound up the day by joy-riding in an aeroplane. MEMORIES OF DICKENS, 90-YEAR-OLD TR IPLET. LONDON, July 4. Charles Maybew, the eldest by three quarters of an hour of triplet brothers—one of the others is living in Australia and the third in Canada—will celebrate his 99th birthday next month. He lives in Rowton House, King’s Cross. A shoemaker in, his early days, he recalls how Dickens used to visit his shop and sit watching shoes being made for him. He was chorister for 70 years and sang at the Duke of Wellington's funeral in 1852..
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1931, Page 6
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