Invaders Didn't Stay to Taste Our Gravy!
Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › February 02, 2010
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SEVEN Ages Of Britain started with David Dimbleby rowing up the Thames in the dark. The last time he did that was when they were trying to smuggle Nick Griffin into the Question Time studio.
"On a day like this in 1834 a great lost treasure was to reemerge," he said. Initially I thought he was referring to the time a young Bruce Forsyth fell off the Woolwich Ferry, but in fact he was talking about a bronze head of the Roman emperor Hadrian, found by a group of mud-encrusted labourers clearing away the old London Bridge. It came up a treat with the application of Ye Brasso.See the full content of this document
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Invaders Didn't Stay to Taste Our Gravy!
The head was considered by Dimbleby to be worthy enough of inclusion in a list of "objects of beauty which give a ...
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