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✓ Published: 21-Mar-2012
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© Copyright Bev Wilkinson Celebrate Living History nnLesley Clapperton is the girl who grew up in Frankston during the Second World War with fond memories of bike riding, bonfire nights and marching bands. nnIt is hard to believe there was a time when this bustling city was a sleepy town but in the 1940s this was the case. nnLesley recalls a time when people walked everywhere and when Frankston was so small that everyone knew everyone. nn“There weren’t very many people that lived in the dis
© Copyright Bev Wilkinson Celebrate Living History nnLesley Clapperton is the girl who grew up in Frankston during the Second World War with fond memories of bike riding, bonfire nights and marching bands. nnIt is hard to believe there was a time when this bustling city was a sleepy town but in the 1940s this was the case. nnLesley recalls a time when people walked everywhere and when Frankston was so small that everyone knew everyone. nn“There weren’t very many people that lived in the dis
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