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Car Leasing Deals Tamworth
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Tamworth Leasing
Did You Know?In 1257 King Henry III visited Tamworth and stayed at the Castle, just one of the famous faces that has stayed within its ancient walls. The effigy of King Offa on the west facade of Lichfield Cathedral depicts the Mercian monarch holding a bishop’s mitre. This is because the Tamworth-based king made Lichfield the seat of an archbishop in 786. Tamworth once had two town halls. For centuries the town was split in two – half being in Warwickshire and half in Staffordshire. A Staffordshire town hall stood on the site of the Three Tuns pub, in Lichfield Street. It was pulled down in 1700. Although Tamworth was not directly targeted by Hitler’s bombers during the Second World War, a number of bombs were dropped on the town. Tamworth castle was besieged by parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War in 1643. An order was issued for the castle to be destroyed but this was not carried out. In 1345 Tamworth suffered a disastrous fire, and much of the town burned. However, the town was soon rebuilt and grew in size. In 1949 the chief librarian of Tamworth decided to remove chairs from the Corporation Street library’s reading room to stop “old gentlemen from snoozing and drying their ‘smalls’ on the radiators.” Tamworth Castle, a Grade I listed building, is a Norman castle, overlooking the confluence of the River Anker and the River Tame, in the town of Tamworth.
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