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This is good -
" SAUNDERS, Albert Edward (22, carpenter), and HOGG, Alexander George (17, plumber) pleaded guilty , of stealing one bicycle, the goods of Augustus Leonard Baldwin ; Saunders stealing one bicycle, the goods of Percy Frederick Padbury . Saunders confessed to a previous conviction.
So one of my ancestors had his bike nicked in 1911 by some toerags, each of whom got four months hard labour!!
Aye it weren't like this in my day etc....