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Great British Railway Journeys

Series 2

Episode 14: Batley to Sheffield

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Michael Portillo finds out about shoddy, a successful 19th-century recycling industry in the textile town of Batley, and meets a descendant of George Bradshaw. Show more

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