One of the world’s best known and loved comedians Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born 16th June 1890 in Ulverston north of the Sands which was until 1974 in the county of Lancashire. In 1910 he emigrated to America and is best known for his antics with his partner Oliver Hardy who he met in the […]

Beatrix Potter was born on the 28th July 1866 in South Kensington and died in Sawrey Cumbria 77 years later. At the time of her death she had made a large amount of money by writing children books and also left 14 farms and 4000 acres of land to the National Trust.

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