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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Hello and
welcome to Nature Fix with me,

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Claire Hickinbotham. Every month
we take you with us as we meet

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the people who spend their time
outside and join them in a place

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that most inspires them.

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There is snow on the ground in
Worksop in Nottinghamshire as I

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set off from Mr Straw's House.
The home of an Edwardian family

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that is frozen in time and open
to visitors.

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The house was last lived in by
sons William Jr and Walter. The

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pair were both keen walkers who
loved the great outdoors and

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every Sunday they would take a
turn through town to get a bit

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of fresh air and check on
properties they owned including

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a grocer's shop on Worksop's
Marketplace.

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We'll be following in their
footsteps today. Looking out for

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ghost signs, street names and
quirky heritage sites as we set

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off hunting hidden High Street
history that gives up surprising

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secrets of Edwardian life and
death.

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So we're going to leave the
house behind and head off into

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town. And I'm joined by Danielle
Lander-Brown, who is the Senior

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Collections and House Officer at
Mr Straw's House, as well as

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Diane and Janet as well.

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DIANE: When you come out into
the town, you're actually

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following the footsteps of the
Straws and it actually brings

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the town to life. And I must
admit, when I first got asked to

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do the walk, I was quite
surprised to think, well, what

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would there be out in Worksop?
But having done the walk now for

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a few years, it's amazing the
connection, not just for the

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house, but the town itself is
really wonderful.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Just a
short distance from the house is

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Worksop's train station and the
station building. Which seems

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grand for the size of town it
serves.

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DIANE: The train station was a
really important part of

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Worksop. When we go back to when
it was first built in 1849, the

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actual town itself is starting
to grow and expand. When the

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train station was built, it was
built in a Jacobean style. I

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mean, if you look at it today,
it's a beautiful station.

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And it also was built in Steetly
stone, which was locally mined,

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which we're told resembled
marble, so it would have been

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absolutely fantastic. And the
reason for that was that because

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we're surrounded by Ducal parks
and one of the things that the

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aristocrats wanted was to
actually have the visitors

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coming into the town and they
wanted a lovely station.

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When they came into the town not
only did it bring their visitors

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but it also bought tourism.
We're talking of thousands of

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people a day and there was a
group called the, I'll only say

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it once, Dukeries Post and
Proprietors Association or DPPA.

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And they actually were like a
tourist group.

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And what they did was the
visitors that came in, they

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would actually pick them up and
they would take them out on day

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trips. They also had keys to
these parks, which were all very

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exclusive, these Dukes Parks. So
they'd go on a day trip, they'd

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actually visit the parks with
their guides, and then they

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would actually probably stay up
to eat for lunch. So it was

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really quite nice.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: But going
back to the station, it's really

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quite grand, isn't it? And I
think it once had a roof, didn't

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it?

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DIANE: It did. Beautiful for
keeping the rain off, not so

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good for keeping the soot
falling back down on your

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visitors.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Which you
don't want if you're in your

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finery about to go to the Duke's
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DIANE: Exactly that.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We leave
the station behind and continue

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walking into town, but haven't
gone far before we spot a ghost

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sign on the side of a building.

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN:
DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: Actually,

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ghost signs you see quite a lot
through Worksop. They're

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remnants of previous advertising
for any shops or industry that

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was in the area. And in this
instance, there is actually a

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ghost sign on top of a ghost
sign.

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So when the building's being
reused or the advertisement's

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being changed, it's been
overpainted. And then over time,

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that's worn. And so what's left
is just a sort of ghost, if you

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like, of the image. Because you
find them a lot in towns and

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cities throughout the country.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Danielle,
I've just spotted another ghost

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sign. Can you work out what it
says?

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: So I
think looking at it, it says

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Bouldry's Ideal Homes begin
here. We're now on Gateford Road

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and there's always been shops
along here and obviously over

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the years the shop usages have
changed.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: It sounds
to me like it might have been a

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department store, something like
that.

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: If you
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town's wealth, with all the
Ducal estates, there was a lot

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of affluence in the town, a lot
of industry in the town, and it

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would have been a thriving
market town at one point as

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well.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Some of the
businesses on this road were

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customers of the Straws grocery
business, but the shop is quite

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a way away, and so when Walter
delivered here, he'd come in his

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car.

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: We've got
Walter's driving licence and he

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had points on his licence for
parking on double yellows and it

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was for parking outside these
shops here as he'd always parked

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here so he didn't see why he
shouldn't continue.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So he was
delivering groceries to the

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clothes shops?

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: Yes, if
you imagine a bit similar to

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them in their earlier years
where they were living above the

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shop they were trading from they
were delivering to the flats

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above these shops.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: And he got
a ticket.

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: And he
got a ticket.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: I really
want to talk about this shop

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we're about to see,
Waddington's. It's a gentleman's

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outfitter. This is a shop that
looks like it's been here for a

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very long time.

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: So the
coats that hang in the hallway

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currently in the house were
purchased from Waddingtons. If

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the Straw brothers were to
return now to come shopping at

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Waddingtons, they'd know exactly
where everything was. The shop

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is laid out in the same style.
It's got the wood panelling, the

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built-in wood unit and the
haberdashery counters. So very

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recognisable still as the shop
that Straws would have used.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We've not
come very far from Waddingtons.

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And we're about to head into
Bridge Street and this is the

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street that's going to take us
up to Mr Straw's shop.

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This is a very fine street,
Bridge Street, isn't it?

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DIANE: It's the main trading
street and it goes back to Saxon

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times so there's always been
traders on this road.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: But it's
wide isn't it and it's got a

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presence about it and Diane
we've got these really rather

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impressive...

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DIANE: Yeah they're lovely
aren't they? ...

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: buildings
which you if you kept your view

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at eye level, you'd never see
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DIANE: You should always look up
in a town or a village because

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these buildings were going now
more towards the sort of Saxon

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times. You've got your 18th
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The beauty is really at the back
of some of these buildings

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because they go right back and
you get little visions of the

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old buildings.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: The backs
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the facades, would they?

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As we head further up Bridge
Street, Diane points out a

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street sign that gives away
another bit of Worksop's hidden

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past.

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DIANE: Castle Street, because we
had a castle in Worksop.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: You had a
castle in Worksop? What happened

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to the castle?

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DIANE: It was a Mote and Bailey
one, wasn't it? And it

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disappeared because it was
wooden, basically. And we still

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have the mound at the top. If
you go to the top of the street,

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it's actually there. So it's
quite interesting.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So we're
just nearly now at Mr Straw's

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old shop. We're going to bring
Janet in.

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JANET: You can see reminders of
the fact that this was a Saxon

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town.

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Now back in Saxon times you were
taxed on the width of your

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frontage so that's why you can
see these very narrow tall

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buildings. Because there's
always a way to avoid tax,

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there's got to be some way to
avoid it.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So they're
narrow, you pay less tax, but

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presumably they go all the way
back.

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JANET: A very long way.

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We are now standing more or less
on the site of Winks, the

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butchers, and we are opposite,
looking at what is now a cafe,

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and that was the site of Straw's
the grocers. And there is a blue

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plaque that tells us that.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Winks the
butcher's is an important part

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of the Straw family's story. The
butcher's daughter is Florence

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and she married the grocer
opposite, Mr Straw Senior, the

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father of our family, who'd
moved to Worksop to work in the

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grocery trade.

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JANET: The brothers, Benjamin
and William, bought this in 1886

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having borrowed money from...

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: This is Mr
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JANET: That's right, and his
brother Benjamin, having

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borrowed £500 from their
parents. It proved to be very

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successful so that in 1896
William Senior was able to buy

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out his brother and in that year
he was able to marry Florence,

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who was the daughter of Winks
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: This is the
beginning of a business, it's

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the beginning of a family, it's
the beginning of William Senior

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becoming a really quite wealthy
man and buying up quite a lot of

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Worksop.

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JANET: Absolutely, so if we look
to the left of what is now the

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cafe, as far as the archway
William Snr bought all of that

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so he owned the archway and what
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and the shop used to be a pub
called The White Hart

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unfortunately William Snr wasn't
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and so as it is today it became
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property.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: That's a
huge great building isn't it,

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three stories tall, but it's a
big three stories isn't it and

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there's one two three four five
windows across yeah That's an

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immense amount of real estate,
isn't it?

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JANET: That's right, exactly.
And as I say, he owned the

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archway as well.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: And the
cottages are down the back, and

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he owned those as well.

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JANET: That's right. And bought
some land from the Duke Of

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Newcastle up towards Clumber
Park, which became allotments,

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and it was known as the
Gentleman's Gardens. And William

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Snr described it as his little
piece of paradise.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: And do they
still exist, the Gentleman's

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Gardens?

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: The area
of land still exists. It's now a

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housing estate called William
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Is it?

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: That was
put in much later. It's that

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real connection in the town they
were living in. There were many

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people like this that were
really influential, important

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people in the area they lived.
And sometimes those connections

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can be lost. So it's really nice
here that you still have those

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connections. And it's nice to be
able to do walks through the

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town in this way that really
does follow in the footsteps of

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the family.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: And where
we're stood Janet you said was

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the site of the butcher's shop.

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JANET: That's right.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We're not
very far away if there was

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somebody now sat in the window
of that coffee shop we would be

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able to see the twinkle in their
eyes wouldn't we? So I've got

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images of William and Florence
flirting across the road.

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JANET: Me too. I always like to
think that I mean obviously I'm

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making this up, we don't know
this for a fact, but I do like

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the thought that they met over a
string of sausages or a tin of

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tea or something like that. It
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they could watch each other
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Yeah, you
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smile or waving and the romance
develops into what we know now

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JANET: Yes. So the boys were
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there were three boys, the
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born in 1901. Sadly, he died in
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Now at the turn of the century
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outbreaks of dysentery in the
town which was caused by

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pollution to the water source,
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certificate that that was the
cause of David's death, and just

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as we go around the corner we're
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that the water company provided
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We're
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the...

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JANET: Corn Exchange.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: The Corn
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Magistrate's Court, and here's
the water fountain.

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JANET: That's right.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So this was
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JANET: Provide clean water.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Clean water
for the town. And does it still?

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JANET: No.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: No. Would
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JANET: No. I'm not sure I would
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time even.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Janet,
we've had a good stomp, and

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you've brought me to Worksop
Priory.

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Which is a very grand building.

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JANET: So this is actually the
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much later addition built in the
14th century and as you can see

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it is quite badly damaged.

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decided to do was to move the
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gatehouse which is where it is
now and at the same time they

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moved the market cross to this
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We've come
around the side away from what

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was quite a busy junction and
there's a church in the back

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garden.

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JANET: This is the Priory Church
built in 1103 and for the Straw

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family a really important church
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worshipped, this is where
William Snr and Florence were

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married in 1896 and this is also
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whole family.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Can we see
the graves?

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JANET: We can.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So William
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JANET: They did.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Would this
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the town?

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JANET: Their marriage was
reported in the local paper.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Was it?

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JANET: It was.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: With a
photo?

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JANET: Yes, with a photo and a
list of the gifts that they

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received.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So Florence
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almost the marriage of two
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JANET: Yes, this new... Middle
class with, you know, wealth

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that they had earned themselves
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We crunch
our way through a decent depth

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of snow as we head further past
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of the churchyard.

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JANET: The Straws chose a very
secluded spot for their final

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resting place.

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I feel that they led a very
public life in, you know,

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running a shop, always there for
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private, and I think they wanted
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private too.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: We're a
good, oh, looking back at the

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church now. Gosh, that's a
really large church, isn't it?

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JANET: It is.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Is that
like a 60s extension on the

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back?

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JANET: Yeah, I believe it's 70s.
And then when you look at the

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land around us, which is also
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originally.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Yeah, it's
a lot of...

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JANET: Very substantial.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So here
they are, right in the back

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corner.

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JANET: That's right. There's
something almost Egyptian, would

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you say, about the look of
these?

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Well, the
shape.

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JANET: Exactly.

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And if you think back to the
1930s, we've got... Tutankhamun

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and Howard Carter and all of
that it was something that was

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very influential and I think you
know we can see that when we

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look at these stones.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So in the
house we've got the Egyptian

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carpet on the stair which was
Florence's influence...

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JANET: That's right. ...

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: and of
course the discovery of the tomb

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was just a year before they
moved into the house I think

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wasn't it so that influence has
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There are two graves here but
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JANET: So what we have is on the
left, we have William Snr,

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Florence, and you can see...

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Oh, David.

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JANET: David is mentioned at
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: And so the
other one is for the two...

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JANET: Two brothers. Two
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Walter.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Shall we
leave them behind and let them

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rest in peace?

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JANET: I think so.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: There's one
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Church, a park called The Canch.

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Janet, we're nearly at The
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JANET: It's a modern park now
for children to play in, but

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within the park we have the
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So after being the mill, these
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the manufacture of Windsor
chairs. And we have a Windsor

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chair in William Jnr's bedroom,
which was given to Florence by

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her grandmother and it's a
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: How is a
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other chairs?

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: So they
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they have arms, solid wood seat.

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You can normally tell by subtle
style changes the areas in which

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they've been made so there is
such a thing as a sort of

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workshop Windsor chair and it
just means it's workshop made.

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It might just be the number of
spindles or something like that

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that will signify where the
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: So it could
be that there's little bits of

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Worksop all over the country.

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: Exactly.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: It's a
really nice thought to end on,

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isn't it?

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JANET: It really is, yes.
Because I think that, you know,

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Worksop has got a lot more to
offer than people maybe realise.

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And I think that seeing
something like that gives you

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that impression.

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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: And it's
just knowing where to look,

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where to find it. But it's not
hidden as such, is it? It's

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there.

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JANET: It isn't at all. It's not
hidden. I think it's just that

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when we're going about our
everyday life, we are sometimes

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just too busy to notice all
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: This is
your town, this is Worksop and

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you're obviously very proud of
it but this sort of history is

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available in any town, isn't it?

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DANIELLE LANDER-BROWN: I think
it's important if you're

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somewhere you live maybe
somewhere that you think you're

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familiar with it's always worth
having that look around.

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That extra second look to take
those moments, to just take in

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the scenery around you wherever
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CLAIRE HICKINBOTHAM: Thanks for
listening to this episode of

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Nature Fix. If you're interested
to hear more about the

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intriguing story of the Straw
family, head over to our history

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channel, Back When, and look for
the episode, The Home Where Time

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Stood Still, Mr Straw's House.

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It's a fascinating insight into
the life they lived, and how the

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house came to be frozen in time.
Looking forward to seeing you

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next month as we head outside
again for another Nature Fix.

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Thank you.