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Sport and leisure
Dave Calway worked in the blade shop at Westland and remembers his colleagues playing football with Yeovil Town FC
http://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dave-Calway-Football-clip.mp3
John Groves was a Design Engineer at Westland for almost 50 yrs and remembers how sport played a big part in everyone's life
http://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/John-Groves-sport-and-leisure-club-clip.mp3
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