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Recently added: William James NeatbyA ceramic designer and artist born in Barnsley, Yorkshire. He trained as an architect but changed career and went to work for Burmantofts Pottery.

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Ghost descending stairs

Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

Most famous ghost photograph ever taken

Woman seated at table

Circe

Subject of several paintings by J. M. Waterhouse

Panoramic view

Winter Hill trespass

A key event in 1896 helping to establish the legal right to roam in England.

Cat with woman in mouth

Cat and Mouse Act

Suffragette campaign against the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913

Ruined church

Alloway Kirk

The inspiration for Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter

Woman dressed as a toff

Vesta Tilley

One of the most famous male impersonators of her era

Woman's head

Lilias Adie

The reconstructed face of a "real" witch

Computer

Small-Scale Experimental Machine

World's first stored-program computer

Disorderly tavern

Sponging house

Place of temporary confinement for debtors

Magician

The Magic Shop

Short story by H. G. Wells

Man sitting in car

Cambro

Possibly the cheapest car ever

Two women talking

The Jilting of Jane

Short story by H. G. Wells

Women standing in line

Herring girls

Women who followed the Scottish herring fleet

Guilotine on stone plinth

Halifax Gibbet

Guillotine that predates the French version by 200 years

View out to sea

The Hooper

Mysterious Cornish fog