Interesting Stories
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Fight at Ivy House 1837
Newspaper report of a fight between two women at the Ivy House Farm. Entertaining journalism.
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Land dispute 1826 and Riot 1829
Involving a mob of 100 men given beer by a licensee in return for destroying a rival's pub.
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A Quarrel in Gnosall High Street, 1837
Two incidents involving feuding neighbours. Entertaining journalism.
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Funeral of Navvy James Wheeler
Fatally injured in a fall into Cowley Quarry in 1830.
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Rev. Fearon Jenkinson's son
In trouble for refusing to clean grate, 1829.
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The origin of “The Horns” public House
Transcription of large, faded and stained document in the William Salt Library.