A must read for intellectuals.
So many being dumped the shops canny get rid of them!
It's Dan Brown all over again!
The small villages who received back the men who marched to the Great War and received all their boys back once again were called 'Thankful Villages.' There were few indeed of these. At the time this report was written, 2011, only 52 such villages could be found in England and Wales.
No such village was discovered in Scotland or Ireland.
Near me lies a small village with a population of 402 in 1895.
During the Great War some 32 men died in action,
rather more typical of the time.
To stop Soub from greetin I add the Yorkshire version
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