A long time ago, before human beings had invented the wheel and the world had gone to the devil, there
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WHAT YOU DONE TO YOUR HAND JOHN?
My grandmother’s family had once been well to do farmers in Lingen near the Welsh border until her father took
Continue readingTHE POTION SHOP
No one called at the Potion Shop in the back streets of Leominster by accident. In fact it got no
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Herefordshire is not regarded as one of the first class cricketing counties. Indeed it is only recently that it has
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Every county has a version of this ballad. The version on which this story is based was sung by John
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The Coningsbys were a new family. They could not trace their line back to the Norman Conquest. They were lawyers
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Everybody knows that a princess is bad news, especially to her father. That was the thought that occurred to King
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David Phelps, author of “Herefordshire Folktales”, is crowdfunding his novel “The Hare At Morning”, the story of a Herefordshire
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No one could refuse the Earl of Hereford anything, that is what Earl Swein thought. The son of the powerful
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I’ve had a hard working life but I cannot think of a better. Working on the same sort of job
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