Mrs Richards, of Bredgar, Kent, who is ninety-eight, walks eight miles every Friday to draw her old age pension, and has 130 living descendants—five children, fifty grand-children, and seventy-five great-grand-children. Explosions and “ gob ” -fires in mines, and the best way to handle them, are to bo studied at a new research station built in Derbyshire. Covering 400 acres and in an isolated position, this station was used for testing guns during the war.
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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 14
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73Page 14 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 14
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