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'Nothing Great Is Easy': The Story Of Captain Matthew Webb

'Nothing great is easy' - it's a phrase so familiar it's easy to forget who it is attributed to, or what it means exactly… In 1909, Thomas Webb unveiled a memorial drinking fountain for his younger brother in Dawley. These words were inscribed in stone under a bronze bust, stained...