“The overlookers allowed their thumb and fore-finger nails to grow to an extreme length, in order that when they pinched ears, they might make their nails meet.”
Pinching through the flesh of children’s ears was just one of the practices at Litton Mill in the early eighteen hundreds. The children working in this cotton mill were [...]
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A run from Hartington, once the home of Stilton but no longer. Click on the title above to see the full article…. A run in the rain along Stanage Edge and past Redmires Reservoir, an area with a connection to World War One. Click on the title above to see the full article…. An eight mile run, barely setting foot on tarmac, through undulating fields in an area with a history of revolution. Click on the title above to see the full article…. |
Hathersage, Derbyshire, England
March 10, 2010, 10:35 pm
 Partly cloudy 0°Chumidity: 86%
sunrise: 6:33
sunset: 18:01
Forecast March 10, 2010
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Intermittent clouds 6°C wind speed: 13 mph NNE Windgusts: 31 mph
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Partly cloudy -1°C wind speed: 7 mph N Windgusts: 18 mph
Forecast March 11, 2010
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Partly sunny 6°C wind speed: 7 mph NW Windgusts: 18 mph
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