Recently added: BluecapA brownie or spirit who worked in the mines of Northern England pushing wagons out of the mines, usually appearing as a blue light.
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Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Most famous ghost photograph ever taken
Halifax Gibbet
Guillotine that predates the French version by 200 years
The Hooper
Mysterious Cornish fog
Circe
Subject of several paintings by J. M. Waterhouse
Vesta Tilley
One of the most famous male impersonators of her era
Herring girls
Women who followed the Scottish herring fleet
The Jilting of Jane
Short story by H. G. Wells
Alloway Kirk
The inspiration for Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter
Sponging house
Place of temporary confinement for debtors
The Magic Shop
Short story by H. G. Wells
Small-Scale Experimental Machine
World's first stored-program computer
Winter Hill trespass
A key event in 1896 helping to establish the legal right to roam in England.
Cat and Mouse Act
Suffragette campaign against the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913
