Thorne, Market Place c.1955
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T303029
More about this scene
Ascend the clock tower of St Nicholas's parish church and see six of the county's major rivers - the Humber, the Don, the Went, the Ouse, the Trent and the Aire. Flood defences were needed here, which were devised by the Dutch engineer, Cornelius Vermuyden. In the late 19th century, many workers from Holland were attracted to this land of canals and windmills as skilled peat workers. The White Hart, left, was an old coaching inn, restored in 1737, and the bank on the right used to be Lester's barber's shop. Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flushing toilet, was born in Thorne in 1837.
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