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#WDCTrivia: Leamington was once the home of Sam Lockhart, a famous Victorian elephant trainer who would bathe his elephants – The Three Graces – in the waters of the River Leam.

If you’re walking around Leamington, see how many references to this story you can spot.

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#WDCTrivia: Deep beneath the streets of Warwick lies a dark part of its history. The Dungeon at the County Gaol (jail) used to house upwards of 40 prisoners at a time, all tightly confined together around a cesspool. The old door to the original Gaol can be seen on Barrack St.

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#WDCTrivia: Did you know that the Queen Victoria statue outside Leamington Town Hall shifted one inch on its plinth on 14 November 1940, when a German bomb exploded nearby during the Coventry blitz.

The statue was never put back, and now a plaque on the side commemorates this.

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