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A cure for whooping cough

By Pauline Williams, Blaenavon

When we were children it was said that if you had whooping cough your father should take his jam sandwiches down Big Pit and leave them down there through his shift.

He should then bring them home and make you eat them. I don't know if it cured whooping cough, but that was what was said.

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