Portobello Market

The Fossies hit the roads to Birmingham!

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January 6th 2007
I dared to do what few Londoners would ever admit to, and a completely foreign concept to others.. A trip up North! Nan and Pop have some very close friends, Robert and Joyce Thornley, on the outskirts of Birmingham that I had been meaning to get in touch with since I arrived and with Mum and Dad it seemed like a perfect time to jump in a car and pop up to see them! Easily said, not quite ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more