Similar story, and my shout out is to @CarshaltonAC - and Mike Ryan, Mike Byrd & Bernard Smaile, in particular. They completely changed the direction of my life.https://twitter.com/phil_rumney/status/1030121344753643520 …
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I absolutely loved my time at Carshalton Tec. But looking back... there were security guards with guard dogs positioned outside the library! Seriously.
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You'd be in the library, here a commotion outside, and then see a lad with his coat wrapped around his arm rush past a window with a large alsatian in hot pursuit. This happened about once a week. 
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Funny thing is this didn't strike me as being at all out of the ordinary, or odd, at the time. Not quite sure why. I think I might have been a bit thick!
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Tell you what, though, probably the bravest person I've ever met was a pre-op trans woman, who braved that environment everyday. This is early 1980s, south London. It must have taken breathtaking courage.
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