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Thread #109742   Message #2310489
Posted By: Ruth Archer
08-Apr-08 - 04:11 PM
Thread Name: Remembered More in Song than History Books
Subject: RE: Remembered More in Song than History Books
"Was that something about a Red Barn?"

indeed. It was so famous that there were Staffordshire figurines modelled on the Red Barn, and sold in quantity. The Red Barn itself had to be torn down because so many people had come and taken away pieces of it as souvenirs, it made the building unstable.