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No Such Thing As Catherine Of Croydon

2024-10-31 · 3 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. White Cliffs of DoverOne-offUnited Kingdom

    This is in a bit... Croydon is a bit of London, we should say. In Croydon, there is a bit called Riddles Down, which is home to a disused trawl quarry. If you look at it from the right angle, it looks exactly like the…

    mentioned at 00:01:33 · See it on the map →

  2. CroydonOne-offUnited Kingdom

    Amy Johnson flew from Croydon when she flew to Australia in 1930. When she came back, she came back to Croydon Airport and 200,000 people greeted her there.

    mentioned at 00:05:19 · See it on the map →

  3. RotterdamOne-offNetherlands

    It was made in the Netherlands, near Rotterdam, and to leave the place where it was being made, he had to get through the Conningthaven Bridge, and that was too low for his yacht to get past. He said, could I dismantle…

    mentioned at 00:23:53 · See it on the map →

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