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Humorous And Interesting Newspaper Stories about Birmingham

I wonder what he would think of "The Things to Come" with respect to Manzoni's efforts following the efforts of Adoph
 

Sammy the Shunter​

Sammy the Shunter is a fictional anthropomorphic steam locomotive character created by Eileen Gibb, featuring in a series of children's books published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sammy is depicted as a 2-4-2T locomotive, painted red with green wheels and a yellow dome who lives in the fictional town of Sleeping Sunbury in England. various books tell of Sammy's adventures all over the world.
 

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I realised that Pedro. They probably praised the fact that workhouses were no longer called workhouses !
 
JohnWish said:
Municipilisation of public houses.



A proposal by Joseph Chamberlain?​



I recently came across this article from Aris's Gazette of 16/12/1876. I know he municipalised water and gas, but pubs? Certainly that seems to have been the implication of Gothenberg notion or proposal.



Gothenberg council had legislated that only beer could be sold privately. The council alone could sell other alcoholic drinks. In the UK this was seen as a compromise. So both the advocates of temperance (politically, mainly Liberals) and their opponents (politically the Tories) opposed it.



JC was not against drinking as such. He was probably more concerned about the effect on his workers and consequently on his profits. Decades later he became Colonial Secretary and was able to forbid the sale of alcohol to black Africans.
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They actually did this in Carlisle - state-owned boozers!!
 
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