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Market Harborough & Around Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Discovery Miles 5 190
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Market Harborough & Around Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Through Time
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Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
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Tourism was born in Market Harborough in 1841 when Thomas Cook, a
local cabinetmaker, set off towards Leicester and had his dream of
worldwide working-class travel. The town was born to serve
travellers. Centuries before, the town had been built to provide a
market place for trades-people near to the 'new' highway connecting
Northampton and Leicester. Eight hundred years later, the market is
still busy, though now indoors, and the original Square is still
bustling with shoppers. As a boy on the playing fields of the local
school, former England team captain Martin Johnson discovered his
finesse in Rugby. In the nineteenth century, William Symington and
his family put Market Harborough on the manufacturing map by
creating pea flour and a range of tempting sauces. In the last
century the town could claim to be a 'crisp capital' of England,
being the home of Golden Wonder crisps.
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