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    This little piggy went to Winnipeg

    Mar 09, 2022 2 minutes
    Michael Montagu

    TODAY, Beauport Park near Hastings, East Sussex, is a popular hotel and spa. Two hundred years ago, it was a destination of a very different kind. Charles Lamb, the son of Charles and Mary Lamb, was born at Beauport on October 7, 1816. Aged seven, he decided to create the Kingdom of Winnipeg for his guinea pigs Minnikin, Pin and Toby, fashionable pets in the early

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