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Dick Van Dyke's Bert the Chimney Sweep in Mary Poppins has a lot to answer for. In reality the life of sweeps in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was not the least romantic. Competition was rife which meant that for a sweep to make any kind of a living they had to work incredibly hard to make barely enough to live. They worked in filthy conditions - apart from that the soot and coal dust they inhaled was carcinogenic as well.
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David Clark
I've always drawn, but I never took Art as a subject at school, and I've never had any lessons or tuition. I've always doodled in idle moments, and sketched for my own amusement, but I never had the guts to try painting before 2015. I joined the Afan Nedd artists' group that summer, finally plucking…
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