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The Upper Classes |
Gordon Smith |
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The Lord Greys of the world lived out of Blyth, in places like Blagdon or thereabouts. And the contact (with working class people) would have only been on civic occasions - the opening of the Mechanics’ Institute, the Jubilee celebrations and that sort of thing would be the only time you’d see the really well-off.
There was, of course, the slightly better-off, like Dicky Fynes, who'd started as a miner, but then became a theatre owner, and thereby a member of the business community. And in the play, one of the characters keeps having a go at him for losing his roots. |
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