Gasworks
My last blog was about gas lamps. This time I’m looking at gasworks. Who can remember walking past a working gasworks with their characteristic smell? I can but being quite young I had no interest in
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Gas Lamps
BY ROGER LARKE So, who can remember gas lamps in your home or street? Not so many of you, I guess. I was born in Norfolk and the house I lived in had no electricity,
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Sudbury Estate Clerk of Works – Mr. Agar
When researching former celebrations in Sudbury, one of our volunteers came across this article about the 'Coming of Age' celebrations for George William Henry Vernon in September 1875. It's a very long, article that goes
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