History (10 posts found)
NEWICK- The Village the Normans Couldn’t Find
“By all accounts she was a bit of a wrong ‘un”
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Chocolate, Suffrage, Presidents and Slavery – The Quakers did it all
He put a huge wooden chain around her and locked her in the bedroom
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Hamsey – Village of Ordinary Heros
The Ghost Village where King Athelstan once held his Court
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Have a Drink, Have a Drink, Have a Drink on Me. Ta. I don’t Mind if I do.
63 pubs and a population of only 9000
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The hanging town
‘Ah’, said my classmate, darkly.
‘That’s a hanging town, Lewes’. And so it was.
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Umble Pie
History is often formed of hand me down tales, narrated around a roaring fire and passed from family to family, giled a little along the way but often with a kernel of truth
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