Rather interesting Welwyn Garden City facts
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Did you know that before Charles Blondin made his first tightrope walk over Niagara Falls he practiced near Welwyn? He was friendly with the decidedly eccentric inventor George Dering, who had inherited the estate of Lockeleys near that town, and the two of them made crossings of the River Mimram there – perhaps not as dramatic as Niagara, but prettier.
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