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Chelsea Pensioners service records

Chelsea Pensioners’ service records: How to find them online

City of London Union Workhouse in Bow Road, Poplar, London, 1849. Artist: Anon workhouse infirmary

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Ag labs pitch hay into a cart on a farm near Whitby, c. 1880

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A campaign meeting during the Reading by-election, 1913 electoral registers

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A line of children at the Alexandra Orphanage on Haverstock Hill, North London, April 1932. Adoption records

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Huguenots Land At Dover

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St David's Day Celebrations At Llandudno Welsh surnames

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Advert for Christmas cracker, invented by Tom Smith

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NH 60873. USS Miami 1864-5. Ships Crew on the Forecastle. NHHC

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