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Susie Burston was born in 1913 and has lived in System Street, Adamsdown, all her life
I can remember in the First World War, I can only have been about 8 year old when the echo boys used to run through the street shouting 'Special Echo', shouting it loud because no one had a wireless and no one had a television. My father would leave a penny on the mantle piece every night and he would say to my mother there is a penny there and if there is a special echo get it. If you had a thru' penny piece you couldn't get it because they couldn't stop to give you change. He had to keep running. He would run right through Copper Street and through Clifton Street and he would sell them all. Then he would jump on a tramcar on Newport Road and go back to the Echo Office for more papers. There would be a row in out house if my mother missed the special echo
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