An raf mechanic’s notebook, 1943

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Past and present entwine at the Black Country Living Museum, where history is close enough to touch and stories of the past unfold

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

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Modern intrusions vie with the trill of oystercatchers close to Dave’s dream home

Corfe Castle has towered over a Dorset peninsula for 900 years; its stone walls seeing kings crowned, civil wars fought and saints made