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- Collection: Slavery and abolitionism in North West England
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100 years ago: the slave trade
A commemorative republication of an engraving of the current of HMS Daphne rescuing children from a slave ship of the East African coast. The event is stated to have happened off 'Brora' - this location is unidentified, but it presumably was named…
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Blackpool, the South Jetty from the Wellington Hotel
The South Jetty – latter to become the Central Pier, opened in May 1868, five years later than the North Pier. Both were designed to extend over the…