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Oysterguy - Philip
I am Philip and i live in England with my wife Tomoko. As you can guess, not an English name, Tomoko is Japanese. We live over in England and travel back to Japan when ever we can or have to.
This journal will be of past trips and hopefully future travel, at home and oversea's.
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This journal will be of past trips and hopefully future travel, at home and oversea's.
Joined on: April 30th 2006
Last Login: May 5th 2006
Blog Entries: 1
Photos: 13
Last Login: May 5th 2006
Blog Entries: 1
Photos: 13
Status: BLOGGER
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April 29th 2006
April 29th 2006
Rochester Sweeps Festival 2006
Europe » United Kingdom » England » Kent » Rochester
A short trip today, 30 minutes or so by train to Rochester which is in the county of Kent just below London. Every year they hold there Sweeps Festival to coincide with the Mayday holiday. As this is was the traditional day the the chimney sweep boys would get off. This happened for about 300 hundred years until the 1868 Climbing Boys Act. This made it illegal to employ young boys and send them up the chimneys to clean them. The festival in its present form has been running for 27 years now. Saturday turned out to be a nice Spring [View Full Entry]