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Tag: 1930s

  • From Roseberry’s Shadow to Durham Gaol: The David Cobbold Saga

    From Roseberry’s Shadow to Durham Gaol: The David Cobbold Saga

    In those turbulent days of the 1930s, in the quaint village of Newton-under-Roseberry, there existed a shop of equally quaint nomenclature – “Ye Olde Village Shoppe.” Now, I am sure, there might well have been other shops in that village, but the tale I’ve uncovered revolves around none other than the proprietor of the said…