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The gas was on in the Institute,
The flare was up in the gym,
A man was running a mineral line,
A lass was singing a hymn,
When Captain Webb the Dawley man,
Captain Webb from Dawley,
Came swimming along the old canal
That carried the bricks to Lawley.
John Betjeman  (1906 - 1984)
British poet and broadcaster
Captain Matthew Webb (1848-1883), the first man to swim the English channel (1875), was born in the Midlands town of Dawley.
John Betjeman's Collected Poems, 1940, "A Shropshire Lad"
 
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