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VANITY FAIR CARICATURE OF LORD PIRRIE, PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND | |||||
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PORTRAIT OF G. W. WOLFF, PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND | |||||
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PORTRAIT OF SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND | |||||
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6abc.com | (2008) | LOCAL CONNECTIONS TO THE TITANIC Since she sank back in 1912, only a few scientists have actually seen the Titanic where it sits on the bottom of the northern Atlantic Ocean.Millions saw the recent movie, but experts say that was largely fiction.... | 11th April 2008 | ||
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Mega Yacht News | (2007) | SS NOMADIC SOON OPENED TO THE PUBLIC The Members of the Nomadic Preservation Society, in collaboration with Titanic Conventions, have the pleasure to invite you to the ¢€ËœTITANIC & NOMADIC CONVENTION' to be held in Belfast (Northern Ireland) next 6th, 7th and 8th April 2007.... | 13th February 2007 | ||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | BROADCAST ARCHIVE KEEPS PAST ALIVE To hear the voice of Edith Russell, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, is one of those "hairs on the back of the neck" moments. Here was a woman who had told a BBC Northern Ireland radio programme that she was "the next to last passenger in the last lifeboat, and the only lifeboat that was full. ... | 9th December 2006 | ||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2007) | £1BN TITANIC AREA PLAN SUBMITTED Northern Ireland\'s biggest planning application has been submitted to develop Belfast\'s Titanic quarter. The £1bn plans include building a tourist centre with a target of attracting 500,000 visitors annually. ... | 8th January 2007 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over £2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the £7 million refit of ... | ||||
| Evening Echo | (1978) | GUS COHEN Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called him the Cat, because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on the Titanic. Af... | 7th August 1978 | |||
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AFP | (2009) | FINNISH BUSINESSMAN WANTS TO BUILD NEW TITANIC A flamboyant Finnish businessman said Wednesday he aimed to build a full-sized copy of the Titanic on dry land, housing a hotel and restaurants to lure tourists to northern Finland.... | 26th March 2009 | ||
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News Letter | (2008) | SPECIAL TOURS AS NOMADIC RENOVATION PROCEEDS THE SS Nomadic is once again being opened up to the public due to exceptional interest from tourists on the Titanic trail in Belfast. The tender vessel, which was used to ferry first and second class passengers to the Titanic, was open to the public for six months after returning to Northern Ireland at Easter last year.... | 14th October 2008 | ||
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News Letter | (2007) | BUILDING PLAN FOR TITANIC QUARTER PUTS ULSTER ON THE RECORD NEWS that a state-of-the-art Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is to be located in Belfast's Titanic Quarter has been hailed as representing "the ideal occupant in the ideal location".... | 24th August 2007 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2008) | TITANIC ROOM TO HOST ART EVENT The historic rooms where the Titanic was designed a century ago have been selected to host one of Northern Ireland's most prestigious art events. The 127th Annual Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition will be held in the Titanic Drawing Offices of Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast from September 19 to October 19.... | 12th September 2008 | ||
| The Times | (1921) | VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s... | 23rd June 1921 | |||
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BBC | (2008) | TITANIC QUARTER All of Northern Ireland will benefit from a Titanic themed tourist project, the first minister has said.Plans for a five-storey building are being backed by the executive, which will give more than £40m towards the £97m project. Also, the village of Comber (Thomas Andrews home village) will benefit as tours will be offered to visitors.... | 30th November 2008 | ||
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Event Magazine | (2008) | £11M TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN BELFAST Belfast is to host an £11m Titanic-themed visitor attraction, to open for the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the famous vessel.Event Communications is creating the exhibition, after winning a competitive pitch tendered by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.... | 12th December 2008 | ||
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TIME | (2008) | THE TITANIC: "SHE WAS ALRIGHT WHEN SHE LEFT HERE" To grasp the extent of Belfast's tourism appeal during the three decades of the "Troubles," one only had to visit the Europa. Its status as the world's most bombed hotel underlined the fact that, for over 30 years, Northern Ireland's capital was a tourism desert. Today, Belfast's hostelries are packed with visitors as the city reaps the rewards of political stability.... | 28th January 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2006) | NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST NULL... | 26th January 2006 | ||
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www.TitanicConvention.com | (2008) | 2ND ANNUAL BELFAST TITANIC CONVENTION The 2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention will take place from 27-29 March 2008 at the W5 in Belfast, Northern Ireland overlooking the slipway for the Titanic.... | 7th February 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | JAMES CLINCH SMITH Brother-in-Law of Stanford White---Well-Known Sportsman --- James Clinch Smith, a brother-in-law of the late Stanford White, is well known as a sportsman and in society circles both in this city and in Paris. Until May, 1911, when he r... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | NOMADIC : BRING HER BACK HOME NULL... | 13th January 2006 | ||
| GENERAL INFORMATION AGED thirty-four years, was born in Manchester. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. H. H. Hall & Co., of Liverpool after which he was employed by Messrs. Campbell and Isherwood, Ltd., Bootle, Hame Electric Company, Liverpool and the Northern E... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | VENICE EXHIBITION OPENED Duke of Genoa Represents the King---J. P. Morgan Present --- VENICE, April 23---The International Art Exhibition was solemnly inaugurated to-day by the Duke of Genoa in the name of King Victor Emmanuel. J. P. Mo... | 24th April 1912 | |||
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(2005) | ROYAL EDWARD Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1... | 10th May 2005 | |||
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BBC News | (2009) | MONEY WORRIES FOR NOMADIC PROJECT The project to restore the Nomadic has received a £500,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, bringing the total pledged to £4m. However, less than £8,000 has been raised from corporate donors and a 'Sponsor a... | 16th September 2009 | ||
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BBC News | (2006) | RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP Return for 'living history' ship [Photo] The Nomadic took passengers out to the TitanicThe ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought b... | 5th July 2006 | ||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Calendar of all Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Principle Probate Registries of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice Ireland -- 1912 ANDREWS Thomas (Junior) [405] 12 August ... | 1912 | ||||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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TravelVideo.tv | (2007) | BELFAST CELEBRATES "TITANIC MADE IN BELFAST" FESTIVAL AND NOMADIC CONVENTION THIS APRIL In April 2007, exactly 95 years after the Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage, Belfast, Northern Ireland will celebrate the story of what was once proclaimed as the 'unsinkable ship'. The Titanic and Nomadic Convention organised by the Belfast Titanic Convention will be held in the Europa Hotel and throughout Belfast on the 6th, 7th and 8th of April 2007 and will run in conjunction with the 'Titanic Made in Belfast Festival' held at the City Hall.... | 20th February 2007 | ||
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BBC News Online | (2006) | TITANIC FERRY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF NULL... | 25th January 2006 | ||
| The Times | (1895) | NEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT BlGHAM, JOHN CHARLES, Q.C. (Liverpool, Exchange) (L.U.), of 19, Palace-gate, Kensington, second s. of the late Mr. John Bigham, a merchant, of Liverpool, b. 1840, and educated at the Liverpool Institute and the Gym... | 23rd July 1895 | |||
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UTV | (2006) | HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912.... | 16th May 2006 | ||
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BBC News | (2009) | TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built. A planning application has been lodged to turn the former Harland & Wolff headquarters - a liste... | 8th September 2009 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | £7 MILLION RESTORATION OF TITANIC SHIP GOES AHEAD The £7 million restoration of a tender ship which ferried first-class passengers on board the Titanic is to begin early next year after the project today secured another £500,000 cash injection. The grant from the Northern Irel... | 16th September 2009 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago. Led by Belfast Harbour and Titanic Quarter, the process has been more than 12... | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| JONES ADMIRATION FOR COUNTESS OF ROTHES Jones apparently admired the Countess of Rothes very much indeed. In fact he later presented her with the brass number plate of the boat and in later years they maintained a correspondence. The countess's cousin Miss Gladys Cherry was also in ... | ||||||
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ET Research | (2007) | KEEPING TRACK OF A MAIDEN VOYAGE On Thursday the 11th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic departed Queenstown on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic ocean to New York. About 2:20 PM GMT, she took departure from the Daunt’s Rock light vessel, and pro... | 20th February 2007 | ||
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Travel Daily News | (2006) | TITANIC TRAIL PUTS BELFAST AT HEART OF DIGITAL TOURISM REVOLUTION Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have launched the world's first interactive multi-media digital tourism trail and, appropriately, it is based around the city's most famous product, ¢€ËœTitanic'. The trail is launched at the same time as a new heritage guide focussing on the history of shipbuilding, and in particular Harland and Wolff also is published by the Council.The ¢€ËœBelfast Titanic Trail' uses the latest GPS-based technology, the Node Explorer, to take visitors ¢€Ëœback to the future' leading them on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story, from the grounds of City Hall to Queen's Island, finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look. Using a portable, robust media player, which is both user-friendly and ultra-modern, the Node Explorer being used for the first time in Belfast uses a combination of the latest computer technology, still images, video footage, dramatic reconstructions, text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time telling the story of the mighty Titanic and the people associated with her. ... | 8th August 2006 | ||
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ET Research | (2004) | 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG WILLIAM McMaster Murdoch lost his life, in common with one and a half thousand others, in April 1912. He had tried to “port around” an iceberg, but “she was too close.” First Officer Murdoch tried to slalom the berg by orde... | 6th February 2004 | ||
| The Times | (1895) | HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill... | 25th December 1895 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1909) | JUDICIAL CHANGES His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of... | 4th February 1909 | |||
| The Times | LEGAL APPOINTMENTS PEERAGE FOR SIR JOHN BIGHAM --- The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Samuel Thomas Evans, K.C., to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, ... | |||||
| New York Times | (1912) | PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| THE WHITE STAR LINE THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1900) | STEAM YACHT ELEANOR SOLD J. J. Hill Is the Purchaser of Mrs. Cardeza's Famous Pleasure Craft --- The rumored purchase of Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza'a steam yacht Eleanor by President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad has been confirme... | 26th June 1900 | |||
| (1911) | INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst... | 17th November 1911 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | WILLIAM T. STEAD English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster.Currently the big wheel structure sits around and on top of the mem... | 5th June 2009 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP NOMADIC 'LEFT TO ROT' The Titanic’s little sister has been left to all but rot away for three years as she awaits decisions on how she will be restored, it has been claimed. Rupert Keyzar has spent almost three years caring for SS Nomadic, the tender that carried fi... | ||||
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ET Research | (2005) | A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next seven ... | 21st October 2005 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC'S "LITTLE SISTER" MAY MISS ANNIVERSARY REFIT DATE The £7m restoration of a tender ship that ferried passengers on board the doomed Titanic may not be finished in time for the centenary of its launch, an official report warns today. The charitable trust responsible for refitting the derelict... | 24th June 2009 | ||
| The Times | (1925) | LORD PIRRIE'S ESTATE The RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., LL.D. D.Sc., of Witley Park, Godalming, and of Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Limited, shipbuilders and eng... | 4th April 1925 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| (1912) | SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at... | 22nd April 1912 | ||||
| The Scotsman | (1912) | STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Weekly Advocate | (1912) | NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE! FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca... | 13th November 2005 | ||
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Irish Times | (2009) | LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud... | 14th July 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2009) | WAS THERE REALLY A CURRENT THAT NIGHT? Before the days when ships began polluting Earth’s atmosphere with the fumes from burning carbon fuels - before the days when her seas became polluted with the noise of a million propellers ; seafarers exclusively used the physics of nature ... | 21st January 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2007) | ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies.... | 14th October 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1915) | TO UNVEIL STRAUS FOUNTAIN Dedication of Memorial to Philanthropist and His Wife Tomorrow --- The Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial in Straus Park will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon with impressive ceremonies. The beautiful granite and bronze fountain, which form... | 14th April 1915 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR Sunday, 26 April 2009 A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been... | 26th April 2009 | ||
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(2004) | DUKE OF ALBANY (F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m... | 31st October 2004 | |||
