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• ‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

  16-07-2024 16:41
  
  It has giddying cliffs, three-billion-year-old rocks, a prehistoric forest – and a giant bronze dinosaur called Fern. Our writer hurtles back through millennia as the beloved museum’s five-year revamp comes to fruitionQueueing for three billion years might sound like an ordeal, but the Natural History Museum has made it a thrill. When the daily stampede of visitors in their thousands now exits the pedestrian tunnel connecting South Kensington station to the grand London institution,
  
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• Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories

  16-07-2024 08:00
  
  We continue our series on towns the guidebook writers skip with visits to Gillingham, Camborne, East Kilbride and Stockport
  Where tourists seldom tread, parts 1-9Chy? I wasn’t familiar with the Ordnance Survey abbreviation for chimneys until I set off to walk around the ghost mines of Camborne. On every tump stand houses for engines built to raise ore from, and drop men into, the Great Flat Lode – a rock field that coughed up 90,000 tonnes of tin, worth $3 billion at today’s ra
  
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