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Smuggling and Customs Officers
Smuggling is a crime with an unusual status. Although most crimes are abhorred by the middle classes smuggling was the exception which for reasons of economy and presumably of enjoying…
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7 Buildings-
The architect’s problems in dealing with clients impossible demands are illustrated in this extract. Imagine the size of the inscription necessary to make such large letters. Impossible to achieve while…
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Activities and inventions
From the top to the bottom of society people were very much more active in the 18th Century than in the late 2Oth.At the bottom agricultural labourers aided by horses…
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Sybil’s Dodgy Dossier
Correspondence between number 10, FCO and MP: Dodgy Dossier Approximate text (from OCR scan): JIM DOWD MP Lewisham West Mrs Sybil Coady 111 London Road Forest Hill LONDON SE233XW HOUSE…
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St Michel 26 October 2010
B&B Heckenroth Cellar repairs Chantal Hecenroth B&B IMG_1794 Place du Serre Snow from car park Snow mountains snowy mountains from St. Michel
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Claire Rayner Obit.
Claire Rayner was a nurse in the Royal Northern Hospital when Tony and Eric were doctors there. She and her husband lived in Cecil Road Muswell Hill as well as us. So…