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Gallery: Essex Miscellaneous
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"A greengrocer on Chipping Ongar High Street looks through a basket of produce carried by a donkey, watched by the woman and boy who are in charge of it. Donkeys are a practical way for people to take home their shopping where streets are steep and inaccessible by car."
This English Heritage description makes it sound like donkey was a standard method of grocery shopping in Chipping Ongar in the late fifties! I have not had much success locating the site of this picture in modern Chipping Ongar - if you can enlighten, please do!
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