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  • The well itself was named after the Parish clerks who would perform miracle plays (dramatizations of Biblical miracles or Saint's lives) and was in use until the 19th Century.

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  • Religious yearning was practically separated from political possibility, and it was not until the 19th century that a large-scale Jewish return to the land and to Jerusalem was realized.

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  • For the great majority of the white pupils that family history will include ancestors who, until the mid 19th Century, were agricultural labourers living in the shires.

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  • The site was apparently a popular Indian campground until the late 19th century.

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  • It is also a place revered by Aborigines, who conducted spiritual ceremonies on the rocky outcrop until the early 19th Century.

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  • Local historian Phil Moss said public executions took place at the gate lodge up until the middle of the 19th Century.

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  • The secret ballot did not become universal until the late 19th century.

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  • Its Old Fort is a former prison that operated from pre-Boer War times in the late 19th Century and throughout the apartheid era until its closure in 1987.

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