by northernath | Dec 5, 2019 | News
John Howard cleared almost 30ft in 1854 – with some help! What fun it must have been for Victorian middle-class families to take a day out by train in the mid-19th Century! It was only in 1830 that the first railway passenger service had been started in Liverpool,...
by northernath | Jan 2, 2019 | News
Daley Thompson is, of course, the first and only Briton to have won an Olympic decathlon gold medal, but he is not the first male member of a British club to claim a title at the Games in an all-round event. The long forgotten latter honour was achieved in 1906, and...