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51. Edwin Greenough stands beside his wagon in the Gables Yard (now Turnpike House). Fred Street wears the rosette. The occasion was the Great War Victory celebrations in 1919. In 1930, Edwin Greenough who was then 77 gave an interview to the local paper and described how he started work at the age of 7 for 1/6 a week and married on 8/- a week.