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Curious about your list of LNER stations. I'm assuming you've yet to write about Doncaster and Stevenage (good luck with both of those) but the list seems slightly incomplete ... eg Northallerton amongst others.
Putters | 04.10.21 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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Really enjoyed this; thank you.
Liz | 04.10.21 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Excellent post. Nice town Newark, but a shame you missed the Civil War Centre. It's rather good and certainly worth more than an hour. I look forward to a future report from Doncaster as I've never visited, but I know Stevenage and even with your skills it might prove tricky to wring anything interesting from it.
Frank F | 04.10.21 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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I'm guessing that pink arcade is made use of by local brides for some memory making photo shoots. As for Stevenage, for those of us who took our politics seriously in the 1990s it is, of course the home of the one time Labour power couple Barbara and Ken Follett. Probably too soon for a plaque though!
Joan | 04.10.21 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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Another great description - hitherto I knew it only as a changing spot to get to Lincoln. An interesting future feature might be to tease out which towns use "on" and which use "upon" to denote which river they have nearby.
cau1khead | 04.10.21 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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The National Civil War Centre is one of Newark's hidden gems. Well, not so hidden, but a visitor attraction you might be minded to walk on by. But if you did then you'd be missing something rather special. It's not particularly large inside, but the way the NCWC team have told the story is exemplary. It puts many larger attractions to shame. But what really stands out is the film/video you can watch. The creativity in the storytelling is first-class.
The castle also has hidden delights. Taking advantage of one of the official guided tours takes you deep into the former cells.
Newark itself can often be missed as holidaymakers and others head up the A1, or the East Coast Main Line. But it's hard to disagree with the PR blurb when it bills itself as a quintessentially English market town. Indeed it is. A shame Greggs is moving though!
Stuart R | 04.10.21 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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Quite the sleepy little surface hiding so much history underneath.
Sounds like you had the sort of luck I normally have with just missing things or places being closed!
Cornish Cockney | 04.10.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Not sure about your link for Retford.
andrew | 04.10.21 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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One of my absolute favourite towns.
Sarah | 04.10.21 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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Nice to read about the Ossington Coffee Tavern. My great grandfather was a grocer's apprentice in Newark and I have an invitation from the Viscountess Ossington for him to attend a concert at the 'Ossington Coffee Palace' in 1882. I'd always been intending to find out what it was.
Anders | 04.10.21 - 12:51 p.m. | #
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Downstream by Waitrose is the town’s FIRST railway station. Castle (Midland Railway) pre-dates North Gate (Great Northern Railway) by about 6 years. It has just marked its 175th anniversary.
Castle station should have hourly trains to Leicester and Lincoln, only two-hourly to Grimsby, and hourly to Crewe. Both have been reduced since mid June for various reasons, including staff isolating due to COVID-19.
John M | 04.10.21 - 1:42 p.m. | #
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I have a genuine Newark story.
In the window of a old-established grocers there was a card 'have you tried our blend of tea and coffee? '
Mike D | 04.10.21 - 5:11 p.m. | #
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When are you going back to "do" Durham properly
Caroline | 04.10.21 - 5:28 p.m. | #
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Andrew - You have to scroll down to the very bottom of the post!
John Simmons | 08.10.21 - 4:20 p.m. | #
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The museum in the Town Hall has civic plate, furniture, pictures etc associated with the building. Newark Museum is housed within the National Civil War Centre. Part of the building was originally the grammar school and you can see 17th century schoolboy graffiti in the former dormitory including R. Disney, thought to be a forebear of Walt Disney.
The British Council made a film about Newark in 1942 called Market Town, designed as an introduction to England for American servicemen. Due to wartime censorship Newark was not mentioned by name, nor were the local factories which of course were dedicated to munitions production. One of those factories was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941.
Mike M | 08.10.21 - 7:48 p.m. | #
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