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I have had to delve very deeply indeed to come up with this one....

Dunoon was also the scene of a 19th century Sabbatarian confrontation against the use of access to a shipping pier on a Sunday for excursionists....the dispute in Stromeferry concerned the unloading of fish from trawlers on a Sunday.
 
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I have had to delve very deeply indeed to come up with this one....

Dunoon was also the scene of a 19th century Sabbatarian confrontation against the use of access to a shipping pier on a Sunday for excursionists....the dispute in Stromeferry concerned the unloading of fish from trawlers on a Sunday.

I think Stromeferry only has about 2 houses so you did well to find anything.


Walsall also has an arboretum.
 

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Bristol also has a fine zoo, incidentally do they still have the white tigers?
 

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Hugh Oldham, founder of Manchester Grammar School and later Bishop of Exeter, was born in Ancoats.
 

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Bernard Ingham, Margret Thatcher's chief press secretary was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School. His employer the Iron Lady herself was born in Grantham.
 

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Gravesend is where the Tilbury passenger ferry docks on the opposite side of the Thames.
 

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Bury St. Edmunds was where John Motson went to public school later on he worked on the Sheffield Morning Telegraph.
 

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