Arthur Randell

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Arthur Randell was born in 1901 near the River Great Ouse at Magdalen, near Cambridge in the UK and wrote about life in the British Fens.

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[edit] Biography

During his early life he made a living from being a railway worker and a molecatcher. He was a great authority on the Fens and it's people and customs. He has written about the Blacksmith who was forced to turn to repairing farm implements and kitchen implements, the chimney sweep, the harness maker, the pig-killer, the straw worker, the maker of corn dollies and many other now extinct trades

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  • Sixty years a Fenman
  • Fenland Railwayman
  • Fenland Memories[1]

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Detail taken from a copy of Fenland Memories published by Routledge abd Kegan Paul (London)in 1969, and Edited by Enid Porter of the Cambridge Folk Museum