Mural of Thomas Paine, Market Passage
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Mural of Thomas Paine, Market Passage
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 29 Dec 2008
Painted in 1994 by Julian Bell in the passage that runs through the old Market Tower from Market Lane to Market Street. Paine lived in Lewes between 1768-74 working as an excise officer and running a tobacco shop, he left the town when the former failed and was sacked from the latter moving to America five months later.
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Image Location
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