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Page last updated at 15:42 GMT, Wednesday, 18 November 2009

In pictures: BBC wartime secrets
Home Guard
Archive pictures from Wood Norton, near Evesham. It played a key role in WWII.
In pictures: radio to the world
The missing planes of Perdiswell
Clarke Gable crashed in Worcester

Droitwich Transmitting Station : Main entrance, July 1934. Medium wave signals are also transmitted from the site. In pictures: radio to the world
The Droitwich transmitter masts have broadcast radio to the world since the 1930s - and played a key role in WWII.

Two knights fighting Battle of Evesham, 4 August 1265
One of the most important battles in the English history happened at Evesham on 4 August, 1265.


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