Although he is 88 years old, William Davy, an iamnte of a Lincolnshire workhouse, recently walked to L'oridon aiid back, a distance of: 260 miles, because he wished to see Mr Neville Chamberlain to find out whether the Guardians were deducting too much from his old age pension. When he reached London Mr Davy found that the man he was away. During the tramp lie slept by the roadside. In 1910, when 70, he walked to London and interviewed Mr John Burns, then president of the Board of Trade, relative to pension matters.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 29 November 1928, Page 8
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