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Issue 142, Spring 2017
- BALH Newsletter of the Year Award
- Last of the Summer Reports for 2016:
- Third Rushden Boot and Shoe walk
- Kings Cross and St Pancras
- Frogmore Paper Mill
- Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
- Articles:
- Wooden Graveboards
- Boot and Shoe book
- Updates:
- Daventry Canal Arm and results
- Miscellany of Items of Interest:
- Whitechapel Bell Foundry
- Padding Station, London
- Dredging uncovers 500lb bomb in Portsmouth -1
- Dredger digs up Second World War German bomb - 2
- News from around the County
- Former Midland Railway Engine Shed, Northampton
- Vehicle test facility set to get green light
- Hellidon [railway] tunnel
- Out with the old and in with the brew … [Phipps Brewery]
- Of this and that including:
- AIA Conference 2017
- NIAG's publications
- Dates for the diary
- And Finally