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WORDS OF THE WEEK - 13 July 2015 - ODD MAN
ODD MAN Occupation. Ovens Dept. More than a labourer. Could set his mind to virtually anything. But he worked particularly in the ovens department. One of his jobs would have been daubing clay on the clammins of an oven. Strange but true!