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The She Barkers of Cranbourne Alley

Tony McMahon11 years ago2 years ago02 mins

As you come out of Leicester Square towards Charing Cross Road and the Leicester Square tube station, you can cross over at the traffic lights and continue down Cranbourn Street. It’s a pretty innocuous street – very unmemorable. But two hundred years ago, it was the known as Cranbourne Alley and regarded as the “great…

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Teenage Londoner whose dress caught on fire!

Tony McMahon11 years ago2 years ago04 mins

The tragic story of an 18th century teenager Isabella Courtenay whose expansive dress caught on fire and soon turned her into a human fireball

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