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Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'I got fed up of Hackney so I moved to a Elizabethan cottage in Somerset'

Jane Egginton was born and raised in Somerset and as a teenager she couldn’t wait to get out.

She moved to the capital aged 18 to study and was beyond thrilled. “I can remember walking down the street and thinking: “If I die tomorrow it doesn’t matter because I’ve made it to London”.”

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