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Lewisham Market, 2002
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Lewisham Market, 2002

Catherine Marson

"I was surprised when I came here, to see that you could get everything you could get back home [in Guyana] in the market. Everything, come from different countries, everything.

When I was home I sent eggs to my sister, because I said I don't think they have fowl in England. So I sent eggs from home! Somebody was coming, so I gave them the eggs and so on to bring, I said they can't get eggs and they can't get rice in England. Because we have our own fowl you see, and so on and our own rice land.

Then we read about the snow and ice and the place is so cold, and we said trees can't grow there you see, because the place is so cold. I feel that it was just all snow and ice and all the people living there. When I come, and I see so many people of different nationalities, and I say I am back in Guyana!."

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