onions
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Grantham’s Medieval Onion Fair is here again on 10th October, courtesy of Richard III having granted permission back in 1483. You can read more about the fair here: https://tinyurl.com/3khw8syv Good Old Richard! Thanks to him a lot of fun is still to be had here in the 21st Century. Mind you, he might have been…
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Once again, looking for one thing led to another – this time to a fascinating site about the history of Nuneaton. It provides interesting year-by-year, century-by-century snippets about historic events, the weather, and…did you know that hops, onions and cabbage were introduced from Flanders in 1400? No, nor me. Click to access nuneaton_history_alan_cook.pdf