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'All the mob-lunatics out, crowding the pavements of pretty and pleasant Doncaster, all degrees of men, peers and paupers, betting incessantly' David Ashforth burrows through the archives to recount the experience of the Victorian era's greate

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From: The Racing Post (London, England)
Date: 20070911
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Byline: David Ashforth

ON THE morning of Monday, September 14, 1857, two men caught a train from Leeds to Doncaster. The younger of the two, Wilkie Collins, was limping. A few days earlier, his companion, Charles Dickens, had insisted that they climb Carrock Fell, in the Lake District. Collins slipped on a wet stone and twisted his ankle. He had to be helped down the hillside, but Dickens was determined to continue their tour and reach Doncaster, where he had booked rooms at the Angel Hotel.

Monday marked the start of St Leger week, the week when, according to The ...

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