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Bridging the Atlantic
When Cunard’s express ocean liner, the luxurious RMS Aquitania, docked in Southampton on 22 November 1921, one of the 3,000 passengers who disembarked carried somewhat unusual luggage. 32-year-old radio amateur Paul Godley had sailed from NewYork on
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SIR HENRY RAEBURN And The Development Of Stockbridge
The development of Stockbridge from a small village to today’s thriving neighbourhood owes much to Sir Henry Raeburn, yet before 1780, involvement in its development would have seemed inconceivable to the young painter. When Henry Raeburn was born in
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Cromarty’s Emigration Stone
The ‘Cleopatra’, as she swept past the town of Cromarty, was greeted with three cheers by crowds of the inhabitants and the emigrants returned the salute, but mingled with the dash of the waves and the murmurs of the breeze, their faint huzzas seemed

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