The Little Book of the Black Country av Michael Pearson

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<p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p><ul><li><p>Butcher Keith Boxley of Wombourne made the longest continuous sausage in 1988. It was 21.12km in length!</p></li><li><p>The first general strike in the Black Country took place in 1842. The widespread public unrest was regarded nationally as the first ever general strike.</p></li><li><p>Hell Lane in Sedgley was described as the ¿most unruly place¿ in the Black Country. A woman who lived in the lane was said to have been a witch and could turn herself into a white rabbit to spy on her neighbours.</p></li></ul><p><strong>The Little Book of the Black Country is a funny, fact-packed compendium of frivolous, fantastic, and simply strange information.</strong> Here we find out about the region¿s most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, quirky history, famous figures and literally hundreds of wacky facts.</p><p>From royal visits and local celebrities, to the riotous Wednesbury protests and a particularly notorious reverend, th