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  • Stranger Things: Barbara Mine, Chair of the Friends of Bishopstone Station, sifts through the peculiar parcel office hoard

    Flabbergasting finds mean funds for Friends of Bishopstone Station

    Contractors working for Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) have unearthed a strange hoard of abandoned objects at Bishopstone station.
    The workers had started tidying up inside the station to get ready for a major refurbishment of the Grade II-listed building. As they pulled up the wooden shutters of the old parcel office, unopened for over 30 years, they had no inkling of what they were about to r