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Along a major road through east London, a slither of history sits unassuming in plain view. While it is now used as a William Hill betting shop, and has been since at least 2008, 121 Bow Road was once ...

NORTH Yorkshire author Neil McGoohan, who lives in Minskip, near Boroughbridge and is passionate about railway history, has just published a ...

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Elizabeth Holman dressed as a navvy to work on the railways in the 1850s, and is one of the earliest known women to do the ...

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Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon in Jack London Square is a "museum where you are lucky enough to get a drink," a ...