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I remember ...
I remember all right, but it does seem such a long time ago. I remember:
being a street representative and endlessly delivering bits of paper up and down thousands of stairs
the lovely Jean working from Christina Smith's flat with loads of us helping
carting the typewriters around the streets and moving the campaign office to my kitchen
then carting the machines around again to Henrietta Street - naturally to the top floor - when the office moved there
my friends gradually realising that an invitation to dinner meant a first course of delivering leaflets round Wild Street
while I was sweating under the weight of a typewriter in the Piazza, a man gave me his card in case I might be interested in 'modelling'
asking the police about the incidence of local crime while the Market existed and being told there wasn't any, bar the odd box of apples going missing
mothers with pushchairs rushing from St. Clement Danes to the Piazza to tell Rayne Dartmouth we didn't want cherry trees, we wanted our homes
Rayne Dartmouth having the decency and good sense to resign from the committee designed to destroy us
Covent Garden Community Association Annual Report 2000-2001
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