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I’ve long been fascinated by this photo. Taken, as I write this, exactly 125 years ago on 3rd February 1900, and about half a mile from where I sit, it shows an anxious crowd around the ominously closed doors of the freshly crashed Dumbell’s Bank in Douglas, Isle of Man. The downfall of Dumbell’s was a hugelyContinue reading “The Picture of Dumbell’s Crash”