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Death photography
Death photography Two young girls posing with their dead mother
Gas Light
Gas Light 1938 play which gave rise to the term "gaslighting"
Jack Sprat
Jack Sprat Nursery rhyme first recorded in 1670
The Singing Butler
The Singing Butler Banksy's reimagining of the original by Jack Vettriano
Inspiration
Inspiration World land-speed record holder for a steam-powered car
The Hooper
The Hooper Mysterious cloud of mist that often hovered over the Cowloe Rock, near Sennen Cove in Cornwall
Eton Mess
Eton mess No, not Boris Johnson, a dessert
Metrovick 950
Metrovick 950 Early British transistorised computer, built in 1956
Lady Lovibond
Lady Lovibond Ghost ship said to be sailing in British waters
Witch's Broomstick
Witch's Broomstick Broomsticks smeared with flying ointment were believed to give witches the power of flight
Ruby Cycle Company
Ruby Cycle Company British mtorcycle manufacturer 1909–1922
Tam o'Shanter
Tam o'Shanter Poem by Robert Burns describing Tam's encounter with a coven of witches
The Enigma of Hitler
The Enigma of Hitler Painting by Salvador Dalí, created in 1939
Lilias Adie
Lilias Adie Reconstructed face of an alleged Scottish witch exhumed in 1852
Plastic classroom
Plastic classroom First fully structural plastic building in England, completed in 1974
Boids
Boids Computational model of flocking
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery Disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900
The Room in the Tower
The Room in the Tower Horror story by E. F. Benson, first published in 1912
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall Most famous ghost photograph ever taken
Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney Working-class suffragette and poster girl for the movement
Cottingley Fairies
Cottingley Fairies Five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986)
RHS Garden Bridgewater
RHS Garden Bridgewater Royal Horticultural Society’s first new garden since 2003
Uley Long Barrow
Uley Long Barrow
Neolithic burial mound in Gloucestershire
Bagpuss
Bagpuss
Children's television series about a saggy old cat
Ordsall Hall
Ordsall Hall 15th-century manor house in which the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 may have been hatched
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