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Historic royal ale at Jubilee tasting
Old School Wines will be cracking open some historic bottles of royal Bass ale – one over a century old – for a Diamond Jubilee tasting session with a difference! The Tittensor merchants has collected a number of bottles of these remarkable ales over the years, the centrepiece of which is the 1977 Silver...
History Monthly: Fatal coach accident
Published on 31 Mar, 2012 at 14:25 in History | Viewed 417 times | No Comments
Today we are all too sadly aware of fatalities as a result of road accidents, writes Stone Historical Society chairman Philip Leason. In 1799 there was a fatal accident near Tittensor when a coach overturned and fell into the flooded River Trent. One of the victims was a former under-treasurer to the Prince of...