Tim Coates
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Tim Coates is a former head of Waterstones and other major book companies. He is a consultant for public and academic libraries in the US and the UK and the author of the Freckle reports on public libraries. He is a published writer of English history.
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K&WV stands for Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Give their website a visit it may help you kwvr.co.uk.
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🧵Standing on Flamborough Head, the Old Lighthouse, better known as the Chalk Tower, is one of England's oldest surviving complete lighthouses. Built in 1674 by Sir John Clayton and George Blake, the 79-foot octagonal tower was intended to warn ships navigating the dangerous Yorkshire coast. However,
Show Postlandmark. In the 1840s it was used for transmitting semaphore messages to ships, while generations of local fishermen relied upon it as a navigational marker. Today, the Chalk Tower remains a distinctive protected landmark. #Lighthouse #Flamborough #17thCentury #Heritage
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I really cannot stress enough how few 17th century books exist in any kind of paper format in the marketplace. You can get sloppily OCRd editions of Margaret Cavendish's works, if they don't get deleted or just plain go out of print because politics or money, but NO, NOT EVERYTHING IS BEING SAVED.
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