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Sweets in Lurgan: Northern Ireland's Largest Ur...

Lurgan Park, the old Brownlow demesne, is Northern Ireland's largest urban park, and in 1708 the town was described as having the north's greatest linen market — a genuinely historic...

Sweets in Stroud: Five Valleys, 150 Mills, and ...

Stroud's Five Valleys once held around 150 cloth mills and produced the famous Stroudwater Scarlet used in military uniforms — a genuinely historic Gloucestershire cloth town, just not one with...

Sweets in Cockermouth: The Georgian House Where...

William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth's Georgian townhouse on 7 April 1770 — a genuinely literary Cumbrian town, just not one with a sweet shop of its own.

Sweets in Stonehaven: Swinging Fireballs Down t...

Every Hogmanay, around forty locals swing flaming cages down Stonehaven's high street in a ceremony with 150 years of recorded history — a genuinely spectacular coastal town, just not one...

Sweets in Darwen: The Jubilee Tower Built After...

Darwen Tower opened in September 1898 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and the public's hard-won right of access to the moors — a genuinely proud local landmark, in a...

Sweets in Portadown: The Newry Canal of 1742, a...

The opening of the Newry Canal in 1742 turned Portadown into a busy water-traffic hub, and the railways later made it 'the hub of the North' — a genuinely historic...