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RT @ThamesPics: "Mid-April Was Hottest for Fifty Years" Thames pleasure seekers used electric canoes, boats streamed through Boulter's Lock…
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RT @MeeMaa1: Now available on @BNArchive Cambridge General Advertiser (1839-1850) | https://t.co/QCQLbpuWgc | #Cambridge @Cambridge_Uni
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RT @Mike_Bayly: Looking through the @BNArchive, there is reference to a “West Ham United” as early as 1896. Do any Hammers historians know…
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