Thoughts on the new arrivals

Tony and Sonia Waterton talk about whether they wanted 'New Towners' at the time

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Tony and Sonia Waterton react to the idea of 'New Towners'

Transcript:

(T): No I didn’t…

(S): No we didn’t…

(T): Simply because it was, in those days it was a 25,000 odd country town. If I walked down Marlowes, I suppose, if I didn’t know everybody, I recognised everybody and everybody knew everybody and so I suppose we didn’t realise exactly what would happen but of course it’s subsequently changed completely to what I would have preferred it to be. But then that’s only because I, it was, how should I put it? The town I was brought up in and was used to.