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A collection of miscellaneous items of historic interest - from the bizarre to the ridiculous!

- "City Slicker" - An extract from Glascow Herald in 1998, giving a totally misguided impression of life in Hungerford in the 1990s.

- How to find the Age of an old Tree

- How to Date Timber-frame Buildings

- Gilbert White - and toads in Hungerford

- Hungerford man wins world record for raw egg throwing, 1990

- Insect Pests in Historic Houses

- Morecombe and Wise Statue (laterly at Hopgrass Farm)

- Sarsen Stones

- Wife Selling - a strange English custom!