Style: Valentine’s Day. Each year on 14th February, people exchange cards, chocolates or flowers with their special “valentine”. St. Valentine’s Day. Named for a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century. More than that the poet Chaucer in

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Gloucester Pin Making Industry – Enormous quantities of pins were used for the fastening of clothing. Elizabeth I was supplied with 24,000 ‘pynnes of diverse sorts’ just for her coronation. Pins secured the petticoat in a ruffle above the farthingale