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The item and the ‘treasures’ inside have been donated to English Heritage.

21/00239/TPO, Maurice James, tree works, West Downs Day Nursery, Romsey Road. Badger Farm Bighton 20/02845/HOU, Mr Down, erection of two-bay garage following demolition of existing outbuildings, Cobbs Farm, Sutton Wood Lane. Bishop's Waltham Colden Common Compton and Shawford 20/02862/FUL, John J O'Neill, replacement detached single dwelling with detached carport and cycle store and associated car parking following the demolition of the existing house, Ty Gwyn, Shepherds Lane. 21/00030/HOU, Mr and Mrs Gibbons, demolish existing store/garage building and replace with new timb...

Share Baden Powell was spurred on to set up the Scouts after fighting in the Boer War and realising there was a gap for a movement to give young boys a purpose. In August 1907, he organised a trial scouting camp to be made up of 20 boys from a diverse selection of social backgrounds. They spent a week on Brownsea Island in Dorset and it proved to be a great success. From there, the idea blossomed and the first National Scout Rally was attended by 11,000 boys in Crystal Palace, south London, in 1909. In February 1929, 66 acres was signed over to the then Boy Scouts of London in Downe, in the b...

Forty Plymouth people who have been a standout hero during the pandemic PlymouthLive, on behalf of readers, would like to show appreciation for everything people in the city have been doing to look after others in the community in what has been an incredibly tough year Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Never miss a big story in Plymouth again with our daily newslettersInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for...

Espionage at the Edge of Empire Espionage at the Edge of Empire By BENJAMIN BREEN by Gregory Afinogenov    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was commonplace to imagine a scientist as a lone toiler in a space of solitary reflection: Darwin on his walks on the grounds of Down House, say, or Caroline Herschel at her late night vigils beside her telescope. This changed, decisively, with the advent of “Big Science” in the early twentieth century. Historians began to re-envision science as an inherently collective endeavor, the work of teams, corporations, or states. “...