RW recalls that Mr Wilson lived with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr and Mrs Mitchell. The work he carried out as a carpenter was of a high standard … [He related] that there were floods in the village when he was nine years old, this would have been in about 1875. During the floods he used a pig trough (probably wooden) as a canoe and paddled about on the flooded roads.
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