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Does anyone know the name of the shop at 54 Park Street (between Littlewoods and the Priory Hotel) BEFORE it became McDoanlds in about 1981? And did it have any other names in the period 1972-1982?...
You So at one point of time there was just indigenous people living in there country's or islands so I would like to know where did the white race of people come from because they ain't indigenous to...
Well in French, une histoire is a story, and it seems the original meaning is creeping in here. A journalist, Babita Sharma, has currently got her book ‘The Corner Shop” on R4, in which she bangs...
King Edward VII was said to be a really bad student but recent portrayals of him show him struggling with words as a child. I know this could be dramatic licence. But I wondered if there is historical...
I served nearly 10 years in the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserves (TAVR) and I was informed by a friend that I can apply and wear (with pride) any medals that I am entitled to, can anyone give me...
Watching the C4 documentary on the 1919 massacre at Amritsar . Shocking, appalling - and the typical reactions from the descendants of the British officer who ordered his men to open fire on the...
What are the medieval towns in the heart of Suffolk better known as?
I would like to know where to see an old street map of Miles Platting of the 1870s.
The house would be 26 Elias Street.
Any help please....
I have always been puzzled by the fact that from 3000 BC there were civilizations: the Egyptian, and then the Roman, but in Britain there was only pre-history (the Bronze age onwards). The Egyptian...
Just watched episode 1 of Neil Oliver's "A History of Britain" on BBC4 (series first shown 2011) covering the first settlement of Britain by modern humans after the end of the last Ice Age. If you're...
Families of Bushey Hertfordshire
Is there a plaque or memorial anywhere to mark the 50 men who were recaptured then shot by the Germans in retaliation?
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Can anyone explain why Sir Winston Churchill adopted a French 'Adriane' model French infantry helmet whilst Lt. Col i/c a Scottish Rgt. The earlier type of Brodie helmet was the standard issue (...
I watched a program about Anne Boleyn. Which showed her personal bible in which HenryVIII and she had written before Henry’s divorce from Cathrin of Aragon. Think it’s kept at the British library....
People in the past
We hear a pipe used to draw off liquid
It was the 76th anniversary of this young woman's death on 22 Feb 1943. A member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group, she distributed leaflets and was executed by guillotine along with her...
a couple of years ago one of you gave me a link to old black and white street maps from the 1900s, but I have changed my computer since then and seem to have lost it could I have the link again please...
My mother was born during WW 2 in Edinburgh and is half Asian - not sure who her father was but he was not Scottish!
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