Tuesday 1st November 2016 - Shropshire Union Canal - Wheaton Aston

Starting our “Shroppie”cruise we have passed by Brewood (pronounced ‘Brood’), stopping overnight and “stocking up”, and are now moored at Wheaton Aston. The first known reference to Wheaton Aston is in the Domesday book in 1086. It appears that the next significant event was in 1777 when half the village burnt to the ground. What happened in the intervening years is shrouded in mystery. However, according to Albert A. Birchenough writing in the  Christian Messenger - "At the dawn of the nineteenth century the inhabitants of Wheaton Aston were steeped in ignorance and vice. Drunkenness, immorality, and brutality prevailed to an alarming degree. The village public-houses were kept open all through the hours of the night. Drinking, fighting, and lewdness turned the place into a noisy pandemonium, and even the village constables were afraid to interfere with the rioters. These vicious pastimes, along with the general wickedness of the villagers secured for the place a bad name, and for miles around it was generally known as “wicked” Aston". So it was with a sense of eager anticipation that we moored up outside the Hartley Arms. But as so often happens reality does not live up to the reputation. This a quiet pleasant place although it may still have its interesting ways. There are a pair of moles feet from 1902 on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford that were carried in the pocket of an old man from Wheaton Aston as a cure against toothache. .
Tuesday 15th November 2016 - Shropshire Union Canal - Audlem Onwards from Wheeton Aston past Gnosall Heath (pronounced No-zull) and Market Drayton, picking up supplies as we go, to arrive at Audlem, a picturesque star of the Shroppie. Now Audlem is a place of only 2000 souls which fails to explain why it has a church, St. James dating from the 13th Century,  standing on elevated ground and verging on Cathedral proportions that could easily cater for far greater numbers.  From the boaters point of view Audlem's flight of fifteen locks is the main challenge but in fact these locks are a pleasure compared with some I could mention being well maintained with balanced gates, easy paddles and sometimes even willing volunteers plus there's a pub and moorings after lock 12.  We picked up some delicious pork, cheese and chives sausages at the butcher aptly named "Oxtail and Trotter” Wednesday 23rd November 2016 - Nantwich Arrived at Nantwich which is a very pleasant market town with some impressive half timbered buildings and a history of salt production dating back to before the Norman Conquest. Curiously it's another of the canal towns to have burnt to the ground (remember Wheaton Aston) this time in 1583 although Elizabeth I donated £1000 towards the rebuilding costs, and I can't help wondering why. She was reputed to have stayed here but then she seems to have stayed just about everywhere at some point! We had a very nice quiche and salad lunch at the Wickstead Arms which is highly recommended. Crucially I attach a photo of yours truly standing beside a plaque confirming the recognition I so richly deserve. There is one further thing that I have to mention… There is a village approximately two miles east of Nantwich called Willaston and it is there that the World Worm Charming Championships are held every year! Contestants tap the ground to entice worms to the surface. Please note that no worms are hurt in this procedure. An area of ground is laid out in plots which are inspected by the International Federation of Charming Worms and Allied Pastimes (IFCWAP) before the off. In the 2016 contest Willaston youngster Hope Smith came out on top by luring out 272 worms in 30 minutes!

Thursday 1st December 2016

Arrived at our Chester moorings. Our cruising has finished for the next three months. Time to explore the local area.
Monday 5th December 2016 This is the 3rd Birthday of our Granddaughters Jorja and  Erin. Have a great day girls, all our love. Saturday 7th January 2017 Welcome to Amelia Rose, daughter to our son Stuart and Virginia, 7lbs of joy and  cousin to Jorja and Erin.

Sunday 31st January 2017

Have joined the Flickr community. Come for a visit if you will… Richardflickaphotos
Monday 20th February-Tattenhall Marina Wild Rose is pulled out of the water for maintenance. The engine needs new mountings and the Bow Thruster needs repair, so we put her on blocks. It feels strange, such stability. We miss the gentle rocking. The tractor, by the way, is a Lamborghini…how cool is that?

Sunday 12th February 2017

Visited Beeston Castle that is close by the Shroppie balanced upon a huge crag of sandstone that offers breathtaking vistas over (it is said) eight different counties...on a clear day, and about 11 canal miles from Chester. There's not a lot of it left, mainly because Cromwell knocked it about a bit, having wrested it from the hands of the Royalists in 1645. You can find out more in "Canal Places" by following this link Beeston.

Thursday 2nd March 2017-Chester Cathedral

Visited this venerable  and very impressive pile which dates back to Norman times when Hugh Lupus (known, would you believe,  as  "the Wolf"), who was Chester’s Norman Earl and William the Conqueror’s nephew, founded a monastery on the Chester site in 1092 . It is also the shrine of St Werburgh of whom more in "Canal Places". But the history of the site extends back 2000 years when, it is believed, a Druid shrine existed. Much later the Romans slapped up a temple to Apollo. Interestingly the Cathedral is being rebuilt in Lego with visitors encouraged to donate a pound for each brick.

Monday 6th March 2017-Tattenhall Marina

What should have been a 2 to 3 day exercise has taken 2 weeks! A new Bow Thruster had to be obtained but the delivery was delayed by storm Doris (yeah...right) and the launch frame lost its hydraulics… This gave us the opportunity to put some bitumen rust protection on the hull. But today we float and we say goodbye to the nice people we've met over the last three months. We are back on the cut and cruising. We are heading for the Peak District. There are many interesting things and places to experience on the way. Yeee haw.
Thursday 23rd March 2017-Ramsdell Hall-Macclesfield Canal A short distance from Scholar Green brings us to Ramsdell Hall where the canal flows through the end of the rather sumptuous garden. But we are not here just to admire the Hall, our mission is to climb the hill to Mow Cop…and it’s some hill! Mow Cop is an isolated village which fringes the Cheshire Plain to the west and the hills of the Staffordshire Moorlands to the east. But its main feature is Mow Cop Castle standing at a height of 1099ft. This represents a climb of 687ft over a distance of 1 mile. The “castle“ is in fact a folly built in 1754 by Randle Wilbraham, the squire of nearby Rode Hall. It’s not really clear why he built it but it stands on the skyline like some skeletal relic of medieval power. Friday 24th March 2017-Macclesfield Canal We have recovered from our exertions of yesterday and are now ready to visit the second of the nearby attractions, Little Morton Hall. This is a Tudor half timbered moated manor house of extraordinary charm. The house was built for a prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08, and successive generations of the family added to the building until about 1610.  We hoped to get there via a public foot path leading from the tow path by our mooring but parts of it were a complete swamp and I feared that we might sink and never be seen again so we went by road instead. This meant passing The Rising Sun pub where we enjoyed a liquid lunch.

Wednesday 29th March-Trigger Article 50!

                       Hail to thee brave Brexiteer                        Who treats with scorn the Project Fear                        And those who think that Democratic Might                        Is rerunning referenda till we “get it right”                        So them that winge and cry and swear                        Have two full years to go elsewhere.
Wednesday 29th March 2017-to Congleton and Beyond Apart from a minor stop lock at the junction of the “Maccie” and the Trent and Mersey canal the only other locks come altogether in a flight of 12 known as Bosley Locks. We have wandered down from our mooring close to Scholar Green and rested awhile at Congleton for shopping and idleness. The centre of the town is about a mile from the canal but there is a bus for when the shopping is heavy!  We then moved only a little way to the outskirts of Congleton. This is in response to the mooring time requirements in and around towns limited to 48 hrs in general. We came eventually to the foot of the aforementioned Bosley Locks and found them closed for repairs! Fortunately the delay was minor and we have now completed the flight and stopped. This is peaceful, beautiful countryside. Spring is coming, “In a cowslip’s bell I lie”. Tuesday 4th April 2017-Macclesfield Canal We stopped on the outskirts of Macclesfield at a mooring that was handy for Homebase. We needed stuff for Wild Rose, Storage boxes etc. The moorings close to the centre are not great and we found it easier to stay on the outskirts and take the bus. I can recommend the Silk Museum which is fascinating. But today we have arrived at Bollington and moored up by Clarence Mill, originally a vast cotton spinning mill that accommodated 320 looms. It now  accommodates, homes, offices, the Discovery Centre, The Waterside Cafe and the local radio station "Canalside The Thread".

Friday 15th April 2017-Bugbrook Basins

We have arrived at this very significant remnant of the canal system at the head of the Peak Forest Canal, one might almost say a symphony in stone that provides a safe harbour with a Pub attached. There is more in “Canal Places”. To get some exercise and work up an appetite for lunch we walk part of the tramway (which is explained in the link piece) and admire the scenery of the Peaks.

Sunday 26th April 2017-Macclesfield Canal

After an enjoyable stay at “Buggie” Basins including a few beers at the conveniently sited Navigation Inn, which was once owned by Coronation Street actress Pat Phoenix, we retrace our route down the Peak Forest Canal, delayed only by the need for a new alternator to charge the domestic batteries. We have visited Buxton and Stockport and will now return via the “Maccie” to our old friend the Trent and Mersey Canal. We are heading for the Caldon Canal and beyond that the Cotswolds and the home of the Bard for some much needed culture.

Saturday 6th May 2017-Macclesfield Canal

We have seen the first Swifts and Swallows of summer!
Wednesday 17th May 2017-Trent and Mersey Canal We pass through the Harecastle Tunnel. Actually there are two tunnels, the “Telford” and the “Brindley”, named after the engineers who built them although James Brindley died during the eleven years that it took to construct his tunnel that opened in 1777 and it is this tunnel that has been blamed for much of the prominent iron ore (responsible for the orange colour of the water) in the canal. The “Brindley” suffered from the difficult ground conditions along the 1.5 mile route giving rise to subsidence and leakage and so Thomas Telford was commissioned to build a second tunnel which, due to improved methods, was completed in three years and opened in 1827. Today only the “Telford” remains open but the entrance of the “Brindley” can be seen in the photo. The average passage time is reckoned to be 45 minutes but we managed it in 35…

Thursday 18th May 2017-Caldon Canal

Have arrived in Milton which has a first class Butcher/Baker, yum yum. We will thoroughly explore this charming little canal which is only an arm of the Trent and Mersey and is 18 miles long. It has, however, its own arm, the Leek Arm, which no longer reaches Leek but is hugely enjoyable to cruise.

Tuesday 23rd May 2017-Leek Arm

Turned off Caldon Canal onto Leek Arm. This is a charming little canal with a short tunnel (130 yards) and, passing fields drenched in buttercups, we ended up at good countrified moorings about a mile from the town centre. Leek is a nice, small, market Town with good shopping, a Whetherspoon Pub, and very pleasant surroundings.
Sunday 28th May 2017-Caldon Canal Left Leek and travelled back down the Arm, turning onto the Caldon to continue on to Flint Mill at Cheddleton. Here we are deep in pottery country and the water mill produced ground calcined flint which is an ingredient in the making of fine china. Flint stone in its original state is too hard to grind and so it was fired in kilns to over 1000 C which turned it into a white rock that can be ground to a soft fine powder. A similar process was used with animal bones for, of course, bone china.

Monday 29th May 2017-Caldon Canal

We have arrived at Froghall which is the end of the Caldon although, strictly speaking, we should have passed through the low and narrow Froghall Tunnel to reach the very end, but as we would have had to remove everything from the roof to pass through, for the sake of 200 yards it didn’t seem worth it. Once this was the start of the Uttoxeter Canal, long abandoned but not forgotten. Now we return and retrace our passage through this isolated wooded countryside which was once full of coal mines and industry. There remains the heritage Churnet Valley Railway and the steam trains pass us on our way as we pass old lime kilns and other industrial archaeology.

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Saturday 3rd June 2017-Etruria Junction

Reached Etruria which is the junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal and, whaddiya know, there’s a canal festival going on! Classic boats everywhere, boats selling stuff, loads of info about abandoned canals being brought back to life, and food. We are intrigued by the stand of an Owl Sanctuary and Alison makes a small friend whereas I get the evil eye. Another flint  and bone mill although, this time, driven by an impressive 1820 steam engine. We were lucky enough to see it working. On a wall were samples of the type of bone used in the process including the hipbone of an elephant which died whilst in a circus group. The skin was preserved and the animal reconstructed by a taxidermist. It now resides in Edinburgh!
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Saturday 3rd June 2017-Etruria

Junction

Reached Etruria which is the junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal and, whaddiya know, there’s a canal festival going on! Classic boats everywhere, boats selling stuff, loads of info about abandoned canals being brought back to life, and food. We are intrigued by the stand of an Owl Sanctuary and Alison makes a small friend whereas I get the evil eye. Another flint  and bone mill although, this time, driven by an impressive 1820 steam engine. We were lucky enough to see it working. On a wall were samples of the type of bone used in the process including the hipbone of an elephant which died whilst in a circus group. The skin was preserved and the animal reconstructed by a taxidermist. It now resides in Edinburgh!

Monday 29th May 2017-Caldon

Canal

We have arrived at Froghall which is the end of the Caldon although, strictly speaking, we should have passed through the low and narrow Froghall Tunnel to reach the very end, but as we would have had to remove everything from the roof to pass through, for the sake of 200 yards it didn’t seem worth it. Once this was the start of the Uttoxeter Canal, long abandoned but not forgotten. Now we return and retrace our passage through this isolated wooded countryside which was once full of coal mines and industry. There remains the heritage Churnet Valley Railway and the steam trains pass us on our way as we pass old lime kilns and other industrial archaeology.

Sunday 28th May 2017-Caldon Canal

Left Leek and travelled back down the Arm, turning onto the Caldon to continue on to Flint Mill at Cheddleton. Here we are deep in pottery country and the water mill produced ground calcined flint which is an ingredient in the making of fine china. Flint stone in its original state is too hard to grind and so it was fired in kilns to over 1000 C which turned it into a white rock that can be ground to a soft fine powder. A similar process was used with animal bones for, of course, bone china.

Tuesday 23rd May 2017-Leek Arm

Turned off Caldon Canal onto Leek Arm. This is a charming little canal with a short tunnel (130 yards) and, passing fields drenched in buttercups, we ended up at good countrified moorings about a mile from the town centre. Leek is a nice, small, market Town with good shopping, a Whetherspoon Pub, and very pleasant surroundings.

Thursday 18th May 2017-Caldon

Canal

Have arrived in Milton which has a first class Butcher/Baker, yum yum. We will thoroughly explore this charming little canal which is only an arm of the Trent and Mersey and is 18 miles long. It has, however, its own arm, the Leek Arm, which no longer reaches Leek but is hugely enjoyable to cruise.

Wednesday 17th May 2017-Trent and

Mersey Canal

We pass through the Harecastle Tunnel. Actually there are two tunnels, the “Telford” and the “Brindley”, named after the engineers who built them although James Brindley died during the eleven years that it took to construct his tunnel that opened in 1777 and it is this tunnel that has been blamed for much of the prominent iron ore (responsible for the orange colour of the water) in the canal. The “Brindley” suffered from the difficult ground conditions along the 1.5 mile route giving rise to subsidence and leakage and so Thomas Telford was commissioned to build a second tunnel which, due to improved methods, was completed in three years and opened in 1827. Today only the “Telford” remains open but the entrance of the “Brindley” can be seen in the photo. The average passage time is reckoned to be 45 minutes but we managed it in 35…

Saturday 6th May 2017-Macclesfield

Canal

We have seen the first Swifts and Swallows of summer!

Sunday 26th April 2017-Macclesfield

Canal

After an enjoyable stay at “Buggie” Basins including a few beers at the conveniently sited Navigation Inn, which was once owned by Coronation Street actress Pat Phoenix, we retrace our route down the Peak Forest Canal, delayed only by the need for a new alternator to charge the domestic batteries. We have visited Buxton and Stockport and will now return via the “Maccie” to our old friend the Trent and Mersey Canal. We are heading for the Caldon Canal and beyond that the Cotswolds and the home of the Bard for some much needed culture.

Friday 15th April 2017-Bugbrook

Basins

We have arrived at this very significant remnant of the canal system at the head of the Peak Forest Canal, one might almost say a symphony in stone that provides a safe harbour with a Pub attached. There is more in Canal Places”. To get some exercise and work up an appetite for lunch we walk part of the tramway (which is explained in the link piece) and admire the scenery of the Peaks.

Tuesday 11th April 2017-Peak Forest

Canal

From Bollington we meander along this scenic canal, past Wood Lanes, Higher Poynton, High Lane, Hawk Green, Marple and onto the Peak Forest Canal. The signs of Spring are ever stronger.

Tuesday 4th April 2017-Macclesfield

Canal

We stopped on the outskirts of Macclesfield at a mooring that was handy for Homebase. We needed stuff for Wild Rose, Storage boxes etc. The moorings close to the centre are not great and we found it easier to stay on the outskirts and take the bus. I can recommend the Silk Museum which is fascinating. But today we have arrived at Bollington and moored up by Clarence Mill, originally a vast cotton spinning mill that accommodated 320 looms. It now  accommodates, homes, offices, the Discovery Centre, The Waterside Cafe and the local radio station "Canalside The Thread".
Wednesday 29th March 2017-to Congleton and Beyond Apart from a minor stop lock at the junction of the “Maccie” and the Trent and Mersey canal the only other locks come altogether in a flight of 12 known as Bosley Locks. We have wandered down from our mooring close to Scholar Green and rested awhile at Congleton for shopping and idleness. The centre of the town is about a mile from the canal but there is a bus for when the shopping is heavy!  We then moved only a little way to the outskirts of Congleton. This is in response to the mooring time requirements in and around towns limited to 48 hrs in general. We came eventually to the foot of the aforementioned Bosley Locks and found them closed for repairs! Fortunately the delay was minor and we have now completed the flight and stopped. This is peaceful, beautiful countryside. Spring is coming, “In a cowslip’s bell I lie”.

Wednesday 29th March-Trigger

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                       Hail to thee brave Brexiteer                        Who treats with scorn the Project Fear                        And those who think that Democratic Might                        Is rerunning referenda till we “get it right”                        So them that winge and cry and swear                        Have two full years to go elsewhere.
Friday 24th March 2017-Macclesfield Canal We have recovered from our exertions of yesterday and are now ready to visit the second of the nearby attractions, Little Morton Hall. This is a Tudor half timbered moated manor house of extraordinary charm. The house was built for a prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08, and successive generations of the family added to the building until about 1610.  We hoped to get there via a public foot path leading from the tow path by our mooring but parts of it were a complete swamp and I feared that we might sink and never be seen again so we went by road instead. This meant passing The Rising Sun pub where we enjoyed a liquid lunch.

Thursday 23rd March 2017-Ramsdell

Hall-Macclesfield Canal

A short distance from Scholar Green brings us to Ramsdell Hall where the canal flows through the end of the rather sumptuous garden. But we are not here just to admire the Hall, our mission is to climb the hill to Mow Cop…and it’s some hill! Mow Cop is an isolated village which fringes the Cheshire Plain to the west and the hills of the Staffordshire Moorlands to the east. But its main feature is Mow Cop Castle standing at a height of 1099ft. This represents a climb of 687ft over a distance of 1 mile. The “castle“ is in fact a folly built in 1754 by Randle Wilbraham, the squire of nearby Rode Hall. It’s not really clear why he built it but it stands on the skyline like some skeletal relic of medieval power.

Monday 6th March 2017-Tattenhall

Marina

What should have been a 2 to 3 day exercise has taken 2 weeks! A new Bow Thruster had to be obtained but the delivery was delayed by storm Doris (yeah...right) and the launch frame lost its hydraulics… This gave us the opportunity to put some bitumen rust protection on the hull. But today we float and we say goodbye to the nice people we've met over the last three months. We are back on the cut and cruising. We are heading for the Peak District. There are many interesting things and places to experience on the way. Yeee haw.
Thursday 2nd March 2017-Chester Cathedral Visited this venerable  and very impressive pile which dates back to Norman times when Hugh Lupus (known, would you believe,  as  "the Wolf"), who was Chester’s Norman Earl and William the Conqueror’s nephew, founded a monastery on the Chester site in 1092 . It is also the shrine of St Werburgh of whom more in "Canal Places". But the history of the site extends back 2000 years when, it is believed, a Druid shrine existed. Much later the Romans slapped up a temple to Apollo. Interestingly the Cathedral is being rebuilt in Lego with visitors encouraged to donate a pound for each brick. Monday 20th February-Tattenhall Marina Wild Rose is pulled out of the water for maintenance. The engine needs new mountings and the Bow Thruster needs repair, so we put her on blocks. It feels strange, such stability. We miss the gentle rocking. The tractor, by the way, is a Lamborghini…how cool is that?

Sunday 12th February 2017

Visited Beeston Castle that is close by the Shroppie balanced upon a huge crag of sandstone that offers breathtaking vistas over (it is said) eight different counties...on a clear day, and about 11 canal miles from Chester. There's not a lot of it left, mainly because Cromwell knocked it about a bit, having wrested it from the hands of the Royalists in 1645. You can find out more in "Canal Places" by following this link Beeston.

Sunday 31st January 2017

Have joined the Flickr community. Come for a visit if you will… Richardflickaphotos
Saturday 7th January 2017 Welcome to Amelia Rose, daughter to our son Stuart and Virginia, 7lbs of joy and  cousin to Jorja and Erin. Monday 5th December 2016 This is the 3rd Birthday of our Granddaughters Jorja and  Erin. Have a great day girls, all our love.

Thursday 1st December 2016

Arrived at our Chester moorings. Our cruising has finished for the next three months. Time to explore the local area.
Wednesday 23rd November 2016 - Nantwich Arrived at Nantwich which is a very pleasant market town with some impressive half timbered buildings and a history of salt production dating back to before the Norman Conquest. Curiously it's another of the canal towns to have burnt to the ground (remember Wheaton Aston) this time in 1583 although Elizabeth I donated £1000 towards the rebuilding costs, and I can't help wondering why. She was reputed to have stayed here but then she seems to have stayed just about everywhere at some point! We had a very nice quiche and salad lunch at the Wickstead Arms which is highly recommended. Crucially I attach a photo of yours truly standing beside a plaque confirming the recognition I so richly deserve. There is one further thing that I have to mention… There is a village approximately two miles east of Nantwich called Willaston and it is there that the World Worm Charming Championships are held every year! Contestants tap the ground to entice worms to the surface. Please note that no worms are hurt in this procedure. An area of ground is laid out in plots which are inspected by the International Federation of Charming Worms and Allied Pastimes (IFCWAP) before the off. In the 2016 contest Willaston youngster Hope Smith came out on top by luring out 272 worms in 30 minutes! Tuesday 15th November 2016 - Shropshire Union Canal - Audlem Onwards from Wheeton Aston past Gnosall Heath (pronounced No-zull) and Market Drayton, picking up supplies as we go, to arrive at Audlem, a picturesque star of the Shroppie. Now Audlem is a place of only 2000 souls which fails to explain why it has a church, St. James dating from the 13th Century,  standing on elevated ground and verging on Cathedral proportions that could easily cater for far greater numbers.  From the boaters point of view Audlem's flight of fifteen locks is the main challenge but in fact these locks are a pleasure compared with some I could mention being well maintained with balanced gates, easy paddles and sometimes even willing volunteers plus there's a pub and moorings after lock 12.  We picked up some delicious pork, cheese and chives sausages at the butcher aptly named "Oxtail and Trotter”

Tuesday 1st November 2016 -

Shropshire Union Canal - Wheaton

Aston

Starting our “Shroppie”cruise we have passed by Brewood (pronounced ‘Brood’), stopping overnight and “stocking up”, and are now moored at Wheaton Aston. The first known reference to Wheaton Aston is in the Domesday book in 1086. It appears that the next significant event was in 1777 when half the village burnt to the ground. What happened in the intervening years is shrouded in mystery. However, according to Albert A. Birchenough writing in the  Christian Messenger - "At the dawn of the nineteenth century the inhabitants of Wheaton Aston were steeped in ignorance and vice. Drunkenness, immorality, and brutality prevailed to an alarming degree. The village public-houses were kept open all through the hours of the night. Drinking, fighting, and lewdness turned the place into a noisy pandemonium, and even the village constables were afraid to interfere with the rioters. These vicious pastimes, along with the general wickedness of the villagers secured for the place a bad name, and for miles around it was generally known as “wicked” Aston". So it was with a sense of eager anticipation that we moored up outside the Hartley Arms. But as so often happens reality does not live up to the reputation. This a quiet pleasant place although it may still have its interesting ways. There are a pair of moles feet from 1902 on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford that were carried in the pocket of an old man from Wheaton Aston as a cure against toothache. .
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