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Rover safety bicycle
Rover safety bicycle The 1886 inspiration for all modern bicycles
Metrovick 950
Metrovick 950 Early British transistorised computer, built in 1956
Cottingley Fairies
Cottingley Fairies Five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986)
Mandrake
Mandrake Plant the cries of which when pulled from the ground can be fatal
Eton Mess
Eton mess No, not Boris Johnson, a dessert
The Room in the Tower
The Room in the Tower Horror story by E. F. Benson, first published in 1912
Ruby Cycle Company
Ruby Cycle Company British mtorcycle manufacturer 1909–1922
Lady Lovibond
Lady Lovibond Ghost ship said to be sailing in British waters
RHS Garden Bridgewater
RHS Garden Bridgewater Royal Horticultural Society’s first new garden since 2003
The Enigma of Hitler
The Enigma of Hitler Painting by Salvador Dalí, created in 1939
Tam o'Shanter
Tam o'Shanter Poem by Robert Burns describing Tam's encounter with a coven of witches
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall Most famous ghost photograph ever taken
Sunbeam Tiger
Sunbeam Tiger High-performance V8 version of the Sunbeam Alpine
Brocken spectre
Brocken spectre Nothing supernatural, just a perceptual illusion
Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney Working-class suffragette and poster girl for the movement
Uley Long Barrow
Uley Long Barrow
Neolithic burial mound in Gloucestershire
Lilias Adie
Lilias Adie Reconstructed face of an alleged Scottish witch exhumed in 1852
Jack Sprat
Jack Sprat Nursery rhyme first recorded in 1670
Witch's Broomstick
Witch's Broomstick Broomsticks smeared with flying ointment were believed to give witches the power of flight
Gas Light
Gas Light 1938 play which gave rise to the term "gaslighting"
The Singing Butler
The Singing Butler Banksy's reimagining of the original by Jack Vettriano
Bagpuss
Bagpuss
Children's television series about a saggy old cat
Inspiration
Inspiration World land-speed record holder for a steam-powered car
Ordsall Hall
Ordsall Hall 15th-century manor house in which the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 may have been hatched
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery Disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900
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