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Samuel Steene (1910-88) posing with his greengrocers' van in Sussex Street, Brixton. Sam, with his brother Harry, turned from an early age to street trading as a means of employment. Initially trading coal using a goat to transport it, the brothers progressed to a donkey and then purchased a blind pit pony. 'We would come out of school at 4.30pm and my eldest brother Charlie would be waiting with a barrow load of firewood and we would go round the streets and sell it at 2p a basket'. In the early 1960s Sam exchanged his horse-drawn wagon for this van to sell his produce on the streets of Brixton/ Loughborough Junction.Digital image by kind permission of Mrs Iris Trunley.

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Image type:	Digital
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Ref:	12510
Identifier:	D2015/10/33
Date:	c.1962