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Old Town Notes · local history, by mail and email
Our town, one street at a time.
On the second Sunday of every month, one street's story: who built it, who lived there, and the photo the museum found in a drawer. A five-minute read with your coffee.
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- 41Tanner's Row, and the smell it was named forSix tanneries, one river, and why the houses face away from it.
- 40The cinema that became a chapel, then a gymNinety years of one building on Market Street.
- 39Who was Mrs Pell of Pell's Yard?A widow, a coal round and a deed signed in 1871.
- 38The lido everyone remembersYour photos of summer 1976, and the day it closed.
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