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- The Enigmatic Standing Stones of Gors Fawr: Mysteries of the Past
Journey to Gors Fawr in Pembrokeshire, where Neolithic standing stones hold secrets of ancient life and folklore.
- Wedding Cake in the Chilterns: The Story of Halton House
Built in the 1880s for a Rothschild banker, Halton House spent a century as an RAF officers' mess and a favourite film location. It now stands closed and fenced off.
- Water in the Valleys: The Lost Lidos of Wales
Miners and volunteers built open-air pools across South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s. Most have gone, but Pontypridd shows what a revival can achieve.
- A Doorway on St James Square: The Dispensary, Monmouth
A Georgian town house in Monmouth served as a dispensary, a nine-bed hospital and a convent school. Its blue plaque marks a quiet chapter in the town's medical history.
- Beneath Turtle Mountain: The Story of the Frank Slide, Alberta
In 90 seconds before dawn on 29 April 1903, the face of Turtle Mountain fell onto a sleeping Alberta mining town. This is the story of Canada's deadliest rockslide.
- Guarding the Narrows: The Story of Brimstone Hill Fortress
High above the Caribbean Sea on St Kitts, Brimstone Hill Fortress was built by the British and raised by enslaved Africans. This is the story of its sieges, its abandonment and its restoration.