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Billy Bragg to auction guitar to raise funds for restoration of William Blake's cottage
Billy Bragg during a visit to the Brit school in London, October 17, 2023

MUSICIAN Billy Bragg is auctioning one of his guitars to help restore a former home of poet William Blake.

The 17th-century cottage in Felpham, west Sussex, is in urgent need of repairs including a new thatched roof.

Blake lived in the cottage for three years from 1800 and wrote the words to the hymn Jerusalem during his time there.

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