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The Masham Swifts
Swifts are unique and amazing birds. Although similar in appearance to swallows and house martins, they are not related and evolved separately some 50 million years ago. Surprisingly perhaps, their closest bird relatives are hummingbirds! What makes swifts so unique...
Dick Turpin
Visitors to York can see his grave in St George’s churchyard, his place of hanging at York’s Tyburn and his condemned cell in the Museum that was formerly York Castle prison. He has had a romantic reputation as a highwayman who held up stagecoaches at gunpoint and...
Anne Lister and Anne Walker Rainbow Blue Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York
There are over 70 historical blue plaques in York, but this one, with its distinctive rainbow border, is unique. It was the first ever permanent rainbow plaque in the UK and commemorates the day that Anne Lister and Ann Walker came here with the intent to...
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