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Issue 156, Autumn 2020
- Obituary
- Anthony Waller
- Articles:
- Construction of Kilsby Tunnel: Part 1
- 'White Gold' – Salt
- 'Up the Swanee' Steam boat evolution on the Mississippi River
- Updates:
- Wellingborough Roundhouse
- Kilsby Tunnel – repairs
- Northamptonshire Miscellany:
- The Welsh House, Northampton Market Square
- Taking a trip down memory lane
- A43 development at Towcester
- Unusual landmarks – Express Lift Tower, Northampton
- Miscellany of Items of Interest:
- Grape Britain
- The rebuilding of Britain after vthe Second World war
- Secret escape kit found in Auschwitz
- Surviving Swindon turntable could be restored
- Venice tackles weighty matter on gondolas
- England's last coal mine shuts – 1
- England's last coal mine shuts – 2
- Irthlinborough Iron Ore Mine celebrates 100 years
- Norfolk Museum needs funding to restore unique articulated locomotive
- Of This and That:
- Facts to make you think
- Dates for the Diary
- Northamptonshire Record Office
- And Finally