
 Fibrous plaster workers the advert from the 1884 newspaper |  |
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 Mike Ferris is a decorative plasterer. While helping with the restoration of Preston Railway station, he noticed a scrap of newspaper behind a cornice. When Mike pulled out the paper, he found it was a newspaper dated Monday November 17th 1884. On it he found an advert that gave him a bit of a shock. He tells Paul why.
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