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Billy Bluelight In the 1930s day trippers on the steamboat to Norwich might be greeted at Bramerton by a figure on the riverside wearing striped cricket cap, singlet, running shorts, and a row of medals. He would announce:
'My name is Billy Bluelight And then he'd be off across the common, cutting across the Whitlingham sewage farm, to come out level with the boat at Crown Point; then he'd disappear again to take the detour over Trowse bridge, and reappear at old Carrow Bridge to welcome the boat as it drew in, and be greeted with applause and a shower of pennies.
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Nobody knows for certain why he was 'Bluelight' - his family believed it was something to do with the matches he sold;
other people associate it with the Temperance movement in the early 20th century, which he supported.
His fitness was certainly a good advertisement for his beliefs.
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