The Life & Times of The Great Tom Sayers

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Born 1897,in a one bedroom cottage in the slum area of Pimlico in Brighton on the South Coast.Tom was the youngest of five children born to Maria and James Sayers,Toms father was a traveling cobbler by trade.Tom attended the Middle Street school to he was 9yrs old,in 1840 at the age of 13yrs he left home for a bricklaying apprenticeship in London.He worked on the St Pancras and Kings Cross train stations learning his trade as a bricklayer.

 

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