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The Black Death
1348-1349<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Storm of Bridgwater
July 1645<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Great Plague
1665<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Coronations
1685-2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The First World War
1914-1918<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Second World War
1939-1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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War Memorials
1914-1918 and 1939-1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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