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The chimney sweeps loaded with their brushes go off to work on motorbikes |
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The Pearce family's horse and cart |
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Chimneys
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The Pearce family have swept chimneys for as long as anyone can remember. Their past has involved shoving little boys up the flu and showing up at weddings as lucky as lucky can be. They’ve plied their brushes in the finest homes in the land and the humblest and they’ve played their part in the very workings of history.Â
It was a Pearce who swept Charles Darwin’s chimneys and 150 years later Bob Pearce knocked on the door of Darwin’s old home – the Down House in Kent – accompanied by Home Truths reporter Thembi Mutch.
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