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PERSPECTIVE: Black Men of Biddle Moor had a fierce reputation.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20050330
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Byline: CHRIS UPTON

This could be a tale by Emily Bronte. Swarthy men with beetling brows, lost and isolated on the lonely moors. Except that in this case there is not one Heathcliffe but a whole tribe of them, cut off in the wilds of north Staffordshire.

The moor concerned is at Biddulph, a mile or so east of the village of Biddulph and rising to more than 1,000 feet. In our overcrowded Midlands this is one of the few places - other than Dudley town centre on a wet afternoon - where you can feel ...

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