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History remembers Elizabeth Tudor as one of England's most powerful and influential monarchs. She is known for bringing England into one of its most prosperous and culturally rich periods. Elizabeth is famous for being a unique ruler in many ways. She was a queen in her own right who never took a husband, she commanded one of the strongest navies in Europe, she brokered a religious settlement that cooled the fiery feud between Catholics and Protestants in England, and she did not name her successor until she was on her deathb Time to explore a story from my mother’s side of the family which seems appropriate seeing that mum recently celebrated her 99 birthday, in Market Harborough, her home now for almost 35 years. In 1989, my parents moved from Purley, south of London to Market Harborough, this small Leicestershire market town, close to the Northamptonshire border. After living all their married life in the London area, they chose Market Harborough as their new home because of its relative proximity to my brother and sister and their families. It had been a town we had often driven through when I was at Leicester University, and it had a nice feel to it. It still does although it has expanded considerably since then, becoming a popular town for London commuters. It’s now less than an hour by nonstop train down to St Pancras. And apparently, as of March 2023, it is considered one of the coolest places to live in the UK. Market Harborough has a few claims to fame: the Liberty bodice, which helped change the way children dressed in the early part of the twentieth century, was invented here at the Symington’s corset factory; Britain’s iconic HP Sauce was once made here (the factory closed down in the mid-1990s but I still remember the all-pervasive pungent, spicy smell wafting over the town when Mum first moved there – Sainsbury’s is now on its original site); and erstwhile woodturner, Thomas Cook (1808-1892) was living and working in Market Harborough in 1841 when he organised a train excursion from Leicester to Loughborough for nearly 500 people for a shilling each. This was to be the very first package tour and led to the establishment of his world-famous (but sadly now no more), Thomas Cook & Son travel agency. As an aside, I’ve discovered there is even a direct connection with my current hometown, Adelaide in South Australia. An iconic feature of Market Harb This is a list of child brides, women of historical significance who married under 18 years of age. List of terms created from a person's name An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name. The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Greek "eponymos" meaning "giving name". Here is a list of eponyms: Butchers, Bakers but No Candlestick Makers (so far)
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