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World War II (1939-1945)

1939-1945

No. 125 includes another late-medieval building, encased in stone in the 18th century or earlier.

The settlement which developed into Ledbury grew up in the Anglo-Saxon period at an important crossroads where the road from Hereford to Worcester

The author and poet John Masefield is one of Ledbury's most famous sons. He was born at the Knapp, in the Homend, in 1878.

The Market Theatre in Ledbury is the home of the Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society (LADS for short).

www.themarkettheatre.com

During the 19th century Roman Catholics in Bolsover were served by the Jesuit mission at Spinkhill in Eckington.

The history of education in Bolsover falls into several well-defined phases.

One of the last acts of the Paul Urban District Council was to put up street nameplates in Newlyn (though not Mousehole) as a belated response to r

Bristol’s Polish community was first established in the twentieth century by Polish airmen and people displaced by the second world war and by econ

This scroll now in the Bristol and West Progressive synagogue has a remarkable provenance.

Target (red) and gun positions (blue) around Larkbarrow, Exmoor, 1940.

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