Curator’s blog
Discover a treasure trove of local history and some unusual artefacts in this regularly updated blog from our curator.
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A seventeenth century pipe
Sir Walter Raleigh is credited with introducing tobacco to Europe – probably around 1585. I wonder if Walter sleeps easy in his grave for tobacco has been such a huge killer. But of course, the dang...
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