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Hindhead, George Mayes And Broom Squires' Cottages 1907
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Memories of Hindhead, George Mayes and Broom Squires' Cottages 1907

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My Grandfather, Harvey Madgwick, was a broom squire,and he lived in a cottage down in the bowl (as my mother related to me). It was a hard life for these people, but my mother(being bought up by her grandparents) told us many times of the broom squires and their children who lived there.