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A family Pearly suit

laughs [Music] this is one of dad's pearly suits it was the main one that you like to wear oh you got the ship on the back she was in The Merchant Navy and a crown my son Terry...

Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: London's Pearly traditionSubtitles: en

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laughs

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[Music]

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this is one of dad's pearly suits it was

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the main one that you like to wear oh

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you got the ship on the back she was in

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The Merchant Navy and a crown my son

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Terry was in the RAF hang on let's let's

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go to the hats okay so that's one I just

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got off eBay like come off an original

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pelly Queens um so it's my friend's

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Jimmy's who has different styles of

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pearly hats her Couture isn't it

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millinery that's the word the whistle

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I'm sitting in the whistling flu I'm

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sitting in here's the one that I that I

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sewed uh started 40 years ago and just

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added bits and took bits off I've got

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fish on my suit we used to eat fish and

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jelly deals lovely jubbly right

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horseshoe for luck I've also got a

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symbol of Great Ormond Street on my on

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my skirt the symbol of the charity that

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we represent where we do knees up so or

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we're going out and about buttons get

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lost so you're always sewing on more

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buns then I might think oh I wanna I

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wanna put a different symbol on there

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basically it's an ongoing piece of work

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Diane now lives in East Sussex but she

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regularly makes Royal visits to her

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Realm

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London the old oak smoke to be able to

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walk along the streets is quite

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privileged when people

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