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The Old Town Notebook
A long read every Sunday: one street, one church or one person from the past.
The street that was never straight
Why the main street of an old town bends, and what the bend says about who owned the land.
What a parish register can tell you
Births, deaths and a few strange notes in the margin, and how I read them.
Drawing a town from a map and a rumour
How I sketch a lost town from one old map and a story the villagers still tell.
The church with a tower to hide in
A village church built to be locked from the inside, and why nobody thought that odd.
How I find the ordinary people
The bakers and carters are never in the big books. Here is where they are.
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