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surrounding the smouldering pit that had been the cellar, although the staircase leading to the clubroom upstairs extended up out of the wreckage. Distressed families of those known to be in the pub at the time gathered at the street corners awaiting news of the casualties as bodies were gradually recovered from the ruins.
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qualification or the equivalent, compared with 20% nationwide. The sector of employment of residents was 21.6% retail, 9.3% health and social work, 15.7% manufacturing, 10.5% construction, 10.4% real estate, 4.7% education, 8.6% transport and communications, 4.7% public administration, 3.7% hotels
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Just after 8 o'clock in the evening of Sunday 10 November 1940 a German bomb crashed down direct into The
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by early humans of that era. Only a few elephant skeletons have been found in
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