On a recent visit to Australia, my wife and I came across a totally unexpected image of Devizes. We were looking around the Aborigine section of the Museum of South Australia in Adelaide, which included a number of television screens mainly showing people telling stories of their ancestors.
We were attracted to one featuring young people singing and dancing in the outback to modern Aborigine music. They were not in traditional costume but modern casual wear. To our amazement the young girl who seemed to have a leading role was wearing a Wadworth 6X T-shirt.
It took a few seconds for us to appreciate that we were looking at someone standing in the red earth of the Australian outback and not deepest Wiltshire. On recovering, I quickly began taking photographs of the television screen, to the surprise of other visitors to the museum. Interestingly, although there were about a dozen young people featured in the routine, the rest were in plain T-shirts with no logos. Does this mean the fame of our local brewery has spread across the globe reaching parts other beers cannot reach? Unfortunately there was no way of finding out how the young girl got the T-shirt, but I must say she looked very pleased to be wearing it, and it made us realise how small the world has become.
Brian & Joyce Arnold, Mill Lane, Poulshot.
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