Fascinating people, fascinating places.

G'd a and welcome to the Dan Mainwearing podcast.

This is where we talk to and about the famous and the infamous,

the celebrated and the obscure, the well-known and the under- well known and the undiscovered

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Bishop Stawford the historic market town tucked away in Leafy, Hartfordshire and best known for, well, not a great deal.

The Romans came, set up camp nearby, but they didn't stick around for long.

Then came the Normans in 1066.

They spruced up the place with a few castles,

the ruins of which are now covered by grass.

Over the next thousand years a couple of monarchs, Charles I and Edward the 7th pop by for a visit.

And that was about it really, until one day in the autumn of 1990 when 11 strangers appeared on the playground of St Mary's Roman Catholic school.

At the time, Storford was a typical middle class predominantly white

conservative town where everybody knew everybody through church, the Rotary or rugby clubs. The only traveler of note was the infamous

Cecil Rhodes and he'd left the town a century before to wreak havoc in southern Africa.

So when these strangers appeared,

they quickly caught everyone's attention.

But who were they?

Okay, in no particular order, Kazimiris Agnieska, Monica, Christoph, Hannah and her brother, Mikhail,

another Mikhail, Oichek, Martin, Martyr, and Anna. That was the voice of Tony Wood and he has a big role to play in this peculiar tale but we'll come back to him later

Neil Rodriguez a student at St Mary's, witnessed the arrival.

He was a comparative newcomer to the area himself.

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