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'The Retiring Rigger'.

'The Retiring Rigger'.

Repro ID: H6750
Title: 'The Retiring Rigger'.
Description: A poem by Ray Maynard who was a Thames Lighterman. After an accident, Ray was confined to a wheelchair for 33 years and died in 1995.
Creator: National Maritime Museum
Date: 2004
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London. Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Ray Maynard

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