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Old Man Thames

London, United Kingdom

Old Man Thames

The Belgian Village on the Thames was a community of Belgian refugees that settled around East Twickenham and Richmond after the beginning of the First World War. The community was centred on the Pelabon munitions factory, run by an industrialist Charles Pelabon, where many of the refugees found wor

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