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@EJWoolf Brightlingsea. Cheap, beautiful, ticks all boxes. I don’t live there but would be happy to!

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@ProfTimBale @thehistoryguy @EHdovercastle @1066battleabbey That’s a shame…but it is several decades since I moved away so my info is not exactly current!

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@FCardamenis https://t.co/jT6QPMUGdu

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@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 ‘Parapluie’ by Georges Brassens. A wonderful song about a moment of romance under a shared umbrella. It couldn’t have happened without the rain! Murray in Somerset

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@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 Something from Menotti’s The Telephone perhaps! Murray, Wiveliscombe (Somerset)

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@OliverKamm A great picture - what gifted parents you had!

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@thehistoryguy Memorably described by Benvenuto Cellini, who single-handedly preserved the Popes life according to his own account!

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@robnitm Wow! Photo taken 17 days before I was born. 1984/5 I lived in Dorset Rd in a low-rise council block. There was what I understood to be former vinegar factory nearby, but probably not the building pictured.

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@robnitm I bought a box of their beautiful striped fags there as a non-smoking teenager. I think the 1977 date must be wrong - I was 13 then! Wikipedia says 1981.

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@IainDale Interesting tower of books! May I ask which Lloyd George biography you would recommend? Thanks

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@itvpeston @Peston @Aiannucci Nosferarsehole

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@IainDale U.R.40

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@thehistoryguy Debussy corrected the proofs of La Mer in the Grand Hotel. And Eastbourne was the home of Dr. Bodkin Adams, tried for murdering his patients (and acquitted) in 1957

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@martinhesp @WMNNews at €25 an etto, I’m not sure there would be many takers!

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@RebeccaFront ‘bird shirt’!? Surely you mean ‘blouse’

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@thehistoryguy @BearGrylls My niece Freya runs the cafe there. Full Welsh Breakfast is fantastic!

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@JuliaKingsford With pleasure! Let’s sort details later as I’m about to head out to the valiant Soldier…

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@JuliaKingsford But I hope you will give the books a chance nonetheless

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@JuliaKingsford you are right, and I can see that as a male reader I casually miss that perspective, so I will have got more from this exchange than you