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"Fascinating" New Book

Posted on 29 October 2020 05:08 PM by David Moss

“Fascinating” Heritage Book from Selby Civic Society

Want to know how a Selby-born botanist helped name a Gowthorpe pub? Or which Micklegate resident pioneered a game now played by millions world-wide? Where do you go to find a link to the star-spangled banner? When did a bomber demolish a Selby church spire… and who offered for sale most of the town-centre buildings in an auction?

The answers to all the above are revealed in a new book published by Selby Civic Society that is on sale now ..in time for Christmas – an ideal stocking filler.

“50 fascinating Facts About Selby” is a compilation of fifty articles that were published weekly in the Selby Times through 2019.

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