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| Picture No | 10587505 |
| Date | 1903 |
| Description | The Fat Boy of Peckham |
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John Trundley, or sometimes, Trunley (1898 - 1944), known as the Fat Boy of Peckham appearing in The Tatler magazine in 1903 when he was aged five and already weighed 10 stone, 4lb. Unable to walk to school, London County Council proposed to run a tramway an additional 400 yards to Reddin's School so that John could receive an education, a decision criticised by Lord Northcliffe. Trundle lived into adulthood, married and had children, but died in an air raid in 1944.
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| Source | Photograph in The Tatler, 16 December 1903 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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