His next roles were in " Jekyll and Hyde ", as Sir Peter, Archibald Proops, Barrow Boy, and Second Gentleman in both the 1995 tour and the 1997 Broadway show.
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Like the original barrow boys of the street markets, the barrow boys sweating it out on the stock exchange floor or sitting glued to their computers are mostly of working class background.
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Like the original barrow boys of the street markets, the barrow boys sweating it out on the stock exchange floor or sitting glued to their computers are mostly of working class background.
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The highly publicised collapse of Barings Bank, engineered by a rogue trader who was barely out of his twenties, has probably put an end to the brief glory of the financial barrow boys.
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In 2009 " The Liverpool Barrow Boys " from " Songs Spun in Liverpool " was included in Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set " Three Score and Ten " as track 19 on the 6th CD.
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Nicholas Leeson, the financial dealer who brought about the bank's destruction, is what the British call a " barrow boy "-- a term derived from the wheel barrows used by itinerant traders in open air markets to display their wares.
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The old buildings have been replaced by sleek steel-and-glass skyscrapers, and the men in the bowler hats by legions of young people sometimes denigrated as " barrow boys, " nicknamed after London's bygone street vendors who once hawked cheap wares from wheelbarrows.
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Davies later claimed that the song was about a spiv, saying, " it was about an barrow boy's " point of view, saying, " ['Come Dancing'] is sung by an East End barrow boy I think there's cockney rhyming slang in it !"
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Representing the'East End Barrow boy'type, Vince wears white socks, talks in cockney rhyming slang ( " flute " = suit, " jam jar " = car ) and is ignorant of the finer points of culture and etiquette at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera that Alex and Clive revel in.