Curious Britain

St Michael’s Church Clock in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, is the largest of its kind in the country. But what else is unique about this historic timepiece? Find out in this episode of Curious Britain.

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Sources:
https://coningsby.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk/parish-information/famous-one-handed-clock/1#:~:text=The%20one%20handed%20clock%20in,Very%20few%20survived

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/history/peculiar-lincolnshire-clock-largest-kind-8836927

https://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2016/08/coningsby-lincolnshire.html https://roys-roy.blogspot.com/2013/10/curious-church-clocks.html

https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=2619

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UFO sightings today are often blamed on modern aircraft. But how can we explain the reports of moving lights and mysterious airships across Ireland as early as 1909, in the infancy of aviation?


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Sources:
The Irish Times, 21 May 1909 
The Staffordshire Sentinel, 21 May 1909
The Western Times, 22 May 1909
The People, 23 May 1909
The Weekly Freeman, 14 May 1910
The Belfast Newsletter, 11 May 1910
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_G._Spencer

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When a group of workers on a routine drainage project accidentally discovered something buried in a cave in the Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, they could never have predicted that it would become one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Britain – a 10,000 Mesolithic skeleton known as Cheddar Man.

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Sources:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/cheddar-man-mesolithic-britain-blue-eyed-boy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Man
https://www.majesticdesigns.co.uk/news/10-facts-never-knew-cheddar/ https://www.cheddargorge.co.uk/education/workshop/cheddar-man https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/mesolithic-skeleton-known-as-cheddar-man-shares-the-same-dna-with-english-teacher-of-history
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/somerset/cheddar-gorge https://www.visitsomerset.co.uk/things-to-do/attractions/cave/cheddar-gorge-caves https://www.westcountryparks.co.uk/10-interesting-facts-about-cheddar-gorge-and-caves
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser, 3 February 1904 

Music:
"Ancient Rite" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Who (or what) placed these curious monuments on top of a Cotswold hill between 3,500 and 1,500 BC, and what was their purpose? Let’s explore the archaeology and folklore that surrounds the Rollright Stones, which are less well-known that Stonehenge, but every bit as intriguing.

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Sources:
https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/whispering-knights https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/rollright-stones/
Oxfordshire Weekly News, 30 January 1924

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Britain isn’t known for its extreme weather events, but did you know the country was battered by snowstorms in 1891? The storm caused chaos, burying trains, blowing ships onto the rocks, and bringing down telegraph wires in an oft-forgotten incident that became known as The Great Blizzard.    


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Sources:
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Blizzard-1891/
Norfolk News 14 March 1891 
Exeter Flying Post 14 March 1891

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August 1577. Lightning struck. Thunder rumbled. And a demonic black dog appeared in a Suffolk church, terrifying the villagers, and leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake. This was one of the earliest sightings of the mysterious beast that became known as Black Shuck. Was this vicious dog really a hound from hell, and if it’s not real, why is it still spotted across the country today?

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Sources:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21406687.weird-suffolk-thunderbolt-lightning-frightening-day-black-shuck-terrorised-suffolk/
https://bungay-suffolk.co.uk/about/history/bungay-history-the-black-dog/
https://www.strangehistory.net/2014/05/26/non-discovery-shuck/
https://blackshuckfestival.comDownham Market Gazette, 23 July 1898
Norfolk and Suffolk Journal, July 1970
Ben Brierley’s Journal, 28 March 1891
Evening News, 28 November 1996
Daily Chronicle, 17 July 1922

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