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15-year-old Elisabeth Vellacott who was a boarder at King Edward Grammar School described the 1920 Louth flood in a letter to her parents

A scarificator, was a bloodletting device that was used in the early Victorian period and was thought to cure many illnesses

Burditts, the printers, were at the junction of Mercer Row and Upgate

The flea trap was hung around a woman’s neck to catch fleas