I have a spooky coincidence about my home town. I was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Through my #FamilyHistory research I’ve discovered that my 5x great-grandmother was held in the jail there, before being transported to Australia. I must have been pushed in my pram right past that spot many times.
The nursery rhyme four and twenty blackbirds is based on fact that in the marshy areas of the Dengie 100 at Burnham on Crouch a suet crust pie over breasts of 20-30 small birds like blackbird, dunlin, moorhen was called an oxbird pudden with Pudden Day on 12 May marking the start of shooting season
In 1871 Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, visited Normanton with his Empress and gave his name (in a slightly altered form) to the Don Pedro colliery at Hopetown.
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