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Birthplace notes and oddities from Gawcott and beyond
A long survey piece recalls Gawcott as Sir Gilbert Scott’s birthplace and later as the cradle of a 1867 wage agitation. It discusses agricultural reform, potato disease ideas, historic fires at Canterbury and York Minster, nonconformist bells, sea-serpent lore, and newly coined terms like fancyography and the tsetse of criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gawcott
Buckingham
Sir Gilbert Scott
Parsonage
Hodge
Herefordshire
Punch
C. Kidd
Enis
Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
Canterbury
York
York Minster
Martin
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick
Barrington
Durham
Church of Scotland
Inverness-shire
Payee
Pontopiddan
Norway
Hans Egede
Greenland
Copenhagen
Scotland
Maclean
Boston
M‘quhae
Daedalus
Admiralty
Cape of Good Hope
St. Helena
HLM
S. Plumper
Oporto
Norwegian
Newmann
Bergen
Livingstone
Disraeli