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Yorkshire woman born in 1860 speaking English. Can you understand?
699 views / 1 likes - addedTamar Hoggarth nee Fletcher was born in 1860 in the North York Moors, northern England. She was one of seven children born to William and Ada Adamson of Marton / Cropton and Castle Howard. She went into service and had an illegitimate son before marrying
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This tiny railroad across the sea has an important job
152 views / 0 likes - addedThe Lorenbahn, the Lttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor island railway, is famous for the tiny, private trains that take residents to and from the mainland. But that's not why it was built: and it's got a more useful purpose as well.Thanks to everyone from Land
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The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire
200 views / 0 likes - addedIn the 1960s, America was running "Operation Plowshare": the idea that perhaps nuclear bombs could be used for peace, not war. At least some British scientists had similar ambitions, and it involved setting off a nuclear bomb under Wheeldale, in the North
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