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Topical Budget 627-2: First Victims of A Shell-Fish Pleasure (1923)
 

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Title: "Only satisfaction of doomed Whitstable 'Natives' is that they will cost consumers more this season. Dragged from their beds at dawn". Oyster smack at sea with men hauling in the oyster dredges. Title: "Into captivity". Men carrying oyster loads from boat to horse and cart standing in the sea. Title: "Sorting the prisoners". Three men sorting piles of oysters on floor. Title: "Interned". Group of small boys by oyster shed. One of them eats an oyster. The oyster season opens in Whitstable.