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Horse-driven engine used in lead and shallow coal mines.

First natural history encyclopedia, published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491.

Act of Parliament making it easier for local authorities to clear slums, and obliging them to rehome the tenants of such areas.

British television's first comedy series, broadcast between 1949 and 1952.

Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.

Suburb of Atherton in Greater Manchester, built as a model mining village in the 1870s by the Fletchers.

First mines rescue station on the Lancashire Coalfield, opened in 1908 in Lovers Lane Howe Bridge, Atherton, Lancashire, England.

Ruined Elizabethan country house in Morley, West Yorkshire, designated a scheduled monument in 1997.

Name for a number of day holes and drifts that worked the coal at the outcrop.

Church of England clergyman with a reputation as a vigorous firebrand of a preacher.