Local industry

RAIL Columnist

In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f

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From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

From creating homemade chutneys to supplying world leaders at the G7 summit, Jake Kendall and Abi Kendall-Hobbs, the couple who co-founded The Cornish Larder, are proof that big dreams can grow from small coastal kitchens. Jake shares their story with coast

Running along the western side of Southampton Water, the nine-mile Southern Railway branch line from Totton to Fawley has rarely attracted much attention from railway historians, but there is much of